Cricket Breeding

[TheRealJovA]

Is breeding crickets difficult of easy in your opinion?


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[Mentat]

Some people consider it easy and others a chore. Here is an article detailing what you need to do: Frog Forum - Culturing Crickets - Care and Breeding of the Common House Cricket .

[Bombina Bob]

In my opinion cricket breeding is one of the hardest things i could think of, again this is my opinion. As long as you have the proper equipment and room, it shoild be easier, But i think you`re better off just buying crickets.

[dmallia]

For me it's not easy but not that hard to breed. You need to clean the boxes regularly(once a week), removed dead crickets and supply fresh food and water source every day. How many frogs you have? I wouldn't recommend if you have 1-3 frogs that eat only 2 crickets every other day.

[MatthewM1]

Breeding is the easy part. Maintaining a colony is the part most complain about. All the cleaning and what not. I breed batches of them here and there so I can get pin heads but larger than that I just buy em.

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[TheRealJovA]

For me it's not easy but not that hard to breed. You need to clean the boxes regularly(once a week), removed dead crickets and supply fresh food and water source every day. How many frogs you have? I wouldn't recommend if you have 1-3 frogs that eat only 2 crickets every other day.

I have one FBT.


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[Truffs1178]

It would be cheaper and less time consuming to buy the crickets if you only have one cricket eating pet. Do you have any other pets that eat crickets?

[TheRealJovA]

It would be cheaper and less time consuming to buy the crickets if you only have one cricket eating pet. Do you have any other pets that eat crickets?

Nope . I probably will get a mudskipper for a different tank.


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[Small Pet Feeders]

Cricket breeding, in its practice, is easy as pie. The hard part lies with remembering about your pinheads after the hatch period, and making sure you supply ramps to the food and hydration, which should be applied cautiously as well.

[Dreadfrog]

I breed crickets and have to many .
Unless you have a lot of pets that eat them it's not worth it
I have 24 frogs and I still have to many crickets haha
Guess I need more frogs


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[TheRealJovA]

I breed crickets and have to many .
Unless you have a lot of pets that eat them it's not worth it
I have 24 frogs and I still have to many crickets haha
Guess I need more frogs


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Damn ! Lol Atleast you have a lifetime supply . Lol So what materials do you use to breed that have made you successful?


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[Ash]

Once we got to the point where we were feeling the pinch of buying hundreds of crickets a week, we began breeding them. The myriad multiple thousands that remained became an offering to the public who desire Healthy feeder crickets that cost less than local commercial pet superstores. Point is there will often be excess crickets that you will need to dispose of through feeding or sharing with others before their life cycle ceases.

[Dreadfrog]

I use big plastic bins .
Feed them fish flakes ,oats,carrots ,
oranges ,Lettuce ( for water .. I don't leave water with them .
And I keep them in the furnace room at my house .. ( very warm and dry )
I also have a old aquarium air pump pumping air into bins .
Out of the 5 or 6 thousand crickets I have I maybe find one or 2 dead ones a week or less .
I also have about a inch of dry peat moss in the bins ( this just lets there wast fall to the bottom of the bin and I clean it all out 1 a month )
Not saying it's the best way but it's bin working for me
I have 4 bins . 1 adults , 1 .. 1/4 to 1/2 inch ,1 pin heads . I also keep 1 bin to house breeding crickets for the next round .


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