Crickets escaping!

[BG]

Those damn escapees cost me 4 days in the dog house.lol Never heard the end of it. From now on me and the crickets meet out in the back shed for now.. They R noisy buggers and anoyeing. They sound like a squiky weel. Lol. The holes in the handdles i fill them in with the glue gun.

[kueluck]

I use a Sterilite container,love the click sound that tells me it's closed, about 9 in tall. Cut out circle on top, duct tape screen. When ready to take crickets out I just tape the egg crate or paper tubes into the plastic container. I put up to 500 pinheads in one.

[CRZ]

Thanks for the replies! I was all worried my house would be taken over by crickets, and I'd have to hire a exterminator to get rid of them.

[ConVexity]

I eat the crickets around my house!
PROTEIN!

[CRZ]

Just found my last cricket, 4 days after he escaped. Well I hope it was a he. I think he was gut loaded very good. I thought after 2-3 days it would have died. This guy was strong and very much alive.

[Kurt]

I would add, when using screen mesh on a cricket enclosure, make sure that it is aluminium and not nylon. They can chew threw nylon.

Also, this past week I had a massive cricket escape, several hundred. I have been rounding them up and throwing them back in the bins or feeding them to the rococo toad. I wouldn't worry about them picking up any toxins in your house unless you have an open container or rat poison or something similar lying around.

[Sublime]

@Kurt Yes, very good tip about aluminum over nylon. How did the mass cricket escape happen? That sucks. The reason I just throw out the escapes is by the time you catch them they've lost all their nutritional value... Also I take extra precaution because I still live at home, but that does make sense if you make it a habit of not leaving anything on the floor that could potentially harm your herps indirectly.