Self-containing Cricket Habitat

[c0ld]

Hi all,

I was wondering if something along the following lines is too ambitious:

Keep a colony of crickets in a 10 gallon tank.

• Moist Coco Fibre
• Spring tail colony to keep ground clean
• egg cartons, replace bi-weekly
• lots of food
• mesh linerabove substrate so that females can lay eggs and not eat them away
• pinheads and adults--everyone gets along! ???

Thoughts?

*crickets are expensive to buy (compared to pangea), but want variety and feel crickets would allow faster growth
*bulk shipping expensive in canada (buy 1000 crickets for 20$, pay 20$ shipping)
*pinheads are actually more like 1/4" in actuality around here
*pinheads are
*Dubia roaches probably a bad idea / may get loose and if luck has it it will be a female with 40 babies.


Regards
C

 

[acpart]

That does sound like a pretty typical cricket breeding set-up. You can google "cricket breeding" to find out what other people are doing and fine tune it.

Aliza

 

[kholtme]

My dubias are very easy to care and breed, and have not had one get out of the container yet. Their are many benefits for breeding dubias over crickets. But do as you wish, either will work. I have just heard that crickets are a pain to breed. I found that most my crickets would die in a weeks time when i used to buy them to just feed off. I wish the best to you. Also i found crickets are great at escaping, and if they do you will find them jumping around out in the open or climbing on your dry wall. If a dubia were to escape it would most likely go hide in a dark corner and you probably wont ever see it, then it will die from no food (unless your house is really dirty with littered food). Do as you wish, and i hope you have great luck at keeping crickets. If you decide to get dubia roaches, make sure to check your laws, I think i remember reading something about them being illegal in Canada?

 

[Hilde]

*Dubia roaches probably a bad idea / may get loose and if luck has it it will be a female with 40 babies.

Roaches are a bad idea in Canada, they're illegal.
I know some people have them, but risk the suffering the wrath of the CFIA.
The only legal ones are the ones you find infesting your house, since it's a bit hard to charge you for having a pest species that's all over the country. Even if you decide to use them, you can't legally breed them, it's illegal to raise a pest species.