Breeding Crickets for a Crestie!
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Turtlestork
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Kudps to you for wanting to try it, but I've heard crickets breeding is just too smelly and slow to really be worth it. Unless you feed your cresties only crickets, It might be a lot more time efficient and less smelly to just buy 100 online every few weeks. I feed quite a few animals on my crickets, and only give my cresties them every other to every three days, and my 1000 lasts around 3 weeks.
Scarlet.Escapist
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Hey there!
Breeding crickets can be a hassle if it is just for a small collection as the previous poster suggested. But for semi-large collections it's not a bad idea if you don't want to deal with roaches.
There are actually a couple of threads on cricket breeding located in the feeders,food & nutrition section of the forum ;-).
Here are the few...
My Cricket Breeding Colony
Succesful cricket breeding for ken
Cricket Breeding
These three threads contain pretty good info as it has tips from members that have tried several methods and found what works for them. You'll have to sift through the first few posts in some of those threads though. =)
Hope that helps and good luck breeding them ^^
Breeding crickets can be a hassle if it is just for a small collection as the previous poster suggested. But for semi-large collections it's not a bad idea if you don't want to deal with roaches.
There are actually a couple of threads on cricket breeding located in the feeders,food & nutrition section of the forum ;-).
Here are the few...
My Cricket Breeding Colony
Succesful cricket breeding for ken
Cricket Breeding
These three threads contain pretty good info as it has tips from members that have tried several methods and found what works for them. You'll have to sift through the first few posts in some of those threads though. =)
Hope that helps and good luck breeding them ^^
The title says "a Crestie", which to me implies you have only one. Breeding crickets for one gecko is totally impractical unless you don't have a quality local supplier. I have one 6 month old crestie, I feed it crickets every other to every third day. I just go to the local mom&pop pet shop and get twenty crickets for $1.09. I feed him two to three appropriately sized crickets at each feeding, thus my supply of twenty (which is usually actually thirty since they don't really count them), lasts for at least 2 weeks, sometimes 3.
I put a small dish of the Repashy Gutload, plus a small dish of Fluker's Total Bites sitting in water into a kritter keeper with some egg crate, and voila.
I put a small dish of the Repashy Gutload, plus a small dish of Fluker's Total Bites sitting in water into a kritter keeper with some egg crate, and voila.