Killing crickets?

[Britt005]

This sounds cruel until I remember that I bought them so another animal could eat them alive...

Anyway, if you read my other post, you'd know that my Rizzo hasn't been eating very well lately. She was showing zero interest in crickets so I got wrapped up in various worms and roaches sooo...I kind of forgot about them. Oops! I checked the keeper yesterday and most of them are super dead. A few are still alive, but I feel like crickets sitting in a keeper full of their dead friends can't be very healthy as feeders. I can't take them back to the store, due to the previously mentioned deadness. Don't want to release them into the wild, for ecological reasons. So I think euthanizing them would be best. I don't like them anyway..they smell terrible and keep escaping the stupid keeper. I may get them again in the future, but have no use for this bunch.

Whats a good way to get rid of them?

 

[wicked gecko]

I wouldn't feed them either as the dead ones decompose quickly and they've been feeding on the dead ones. I'd just freeze them and throw them away if it was me.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Keeping moisture under tight control is one way to successfully keep crickets alive and thriving.

Click: http://www.geckosunlimited.com/comm...feeding-issues-/68574-cricket-guidelines.html

 

[JessJohnson87]

What wickerd gecko said, put them in the freezer. I just had to do this for a couple of hornworms that were too big for Ziggy to eat and I was not adding another worm to my experiment.

 

[Britt005]

Yeah, i think my hornworns need to go too. She never ate a single one of them and they are probably too big now. Waste of 8 bucks + shipping. she is going to put me in the poor house...

I'll try the freezer trick, thanks. I'll try to out them in the back so my roommates don't freak. :crackup:

 

[JessJohnson87]

It should only take 30-40 minutes to fully freeze them.