ARRRRGH CRICKETS EVERYWHERE!

[modestmouse]

So let me give you the low-down... I have a gecko, yes, but we feed ours meal worms. My boyfriends sister has a golden gecko, yes, that she tried feeding meal worms. So the darn thing wasn’t eating meal worms, she got it at 10 years old from her boyfriend’s sister... These geckos stress incredibly easily & I have read that they WILL starve themselves if they become too stressed... So it hasn’t eaten anything... They decide (despite what I have told them countless times) that they’ll get some crickets. It still isn’t eating them, obviously it is stressed because of what they’ve done to it (moved from comfortable home, highway car ride (while STILL in it’s tank), they are both too afraid to touch it, like, they scream if it goes near their hands (so they can’t clean it’s cage) & now a disgustingly ugly dog breathing is on it’s tank all hours of the day) I am finding crickets EVERYWHERE in my apartment. They totally creep me out by the way... So can I use home insect killer? Or could the spray hurt my gecko if it’s in the air? I can’t stand the damn things roaming free in my apartment, if I can’t use the spray, is there another way I can get rid of all of them?

Actually, also, will it affect the meal worms & later affect my gecko?

 

[scintillatingstar]

I would not spray any pesticide in your house you will most likely kill your mealies and your geckos.
We had 2k crix get loose in our basement. LONG story. But, we sprayed pesticide in the basement even though they had crawled up through the walls to some of the apartment. They are all gone now and no harm to the animals upstairs.
If you can do something similair i would try. If not buy a cat. They love crix and will clear our your apt. for ya! hahha

Good luck. Sounds like a crappy situation for you and the new gecko. Its really disapointing to read that it is treated that way

 

[supperl]

in germany we have socalled cricket traps for these kinda problem.

 

[LadyGecko]

My cats take care of any of my loose crickets
:main_rolleyes:

WOW-2000 of them loose in a basement!!
I thought that it was bad the time that I dropped a bag of a couple hundred that I was feeding-lol

:shocked:

Cricket traps sound interesting

 

[ReptileMan27]

STUPID crickets, I have a bunch loose in my basement. I hate crickets, mealworms are so much better. The cricks arent so bad when I generally buy 4-5 dozen ever week or two for the few things I have that eat cricks. But having to buy thousands to feed the leos is just a pain and I am so glad I finally found some mealies

 

[modestmouse]

thanks all! I am just super-angry that this shouldn't be a problem for me at all... Seriously... considering I use meal worms!

 

[Bling_my_leo]

What do these cricket traps look like?

 

[shadowx362]

go buy some sticky mouse traps they work so good. I use them all the time.

 

[nats]

My cats take care of any of my loose crickets
:main_rolleyes:

WOW-2000 of them loose in a basement!!
I thought that it was bad the time that I dropped a bag of a couple hundred that I was feeding-lol

:shocked:

Cricket traps sound interesting

Good idea, get (or borrow) a cat!
I got a shipment of 1000 cricks once, I was at work, and my Mom put the box in my room. When I got home I discovered that the box have a huge hole in it. When I opened the box, only about 150 cricks!! the rest where running around in my room! :main_laugh:
Maybe you can lure them with food, I didnt try that, I just got out the vacuum cleaner. That got most of them. But a week or so later, we could hear chirping crickets at night all over the house!