Cricket Substrate

[Leopard.Geckerz]

What do you guys use in your cricket..housing..box things, whatever you use.

I use a 20 tall glass aquarium with a screen lid for 500 crickets. I use oatmeal on the bottom and that way they can munch on it (I do gutload them as well) and it seems to yield me the least fatalities.. I used to use paper towel but it got really nasty, really fast.

 

[acpart]

I use a 10 gallon tank with screen top and up to 3 pieces of egg crate, as well as 2 toilet paper rolls for up to 1500 crickets. I have 4 small bowls of cricket water which I make from crystals that I bought on-line. At the bottom there's about 1/2" of powdered gutload (progeckos) and a handfull of catfood. If it starts to get smelly, I take a strainer and strain the bedding. The powdered stuff goes back into the tank, the live crickets jump out and the dead crickets and shed skins go into the garbage.

Aliza

 

[Lady_Kiya]

I have no idea what I should use that would be easier to maintain and create less of a smell. The smell is hard for me to handle. So I am stilll looking for an easy way to maintain the enclosure for the crickets.

 

[Leopard.Geckerz]

I have no idea what I should use that would be easier to maintain and create less of a smell. The smell is hard for me to handle. So I am stilll looking for an easy way to maintain the enclosure for the crickets.

Oatmeal has been my favourite so far.. give it a shot? The more ventilation, the better. Using a rubbermaid was terrible for me, but an old tank with the screen lid really helped.

 

[SJP]

I have no idea what I should use that would be easier to maintain and create less of a smell.

Toss the crickets and get dubia roaches! You'll eliminate both those problems as well as a few more.

 

[acpart]

I have no idea what I should use that would be easier to maintain and create less of a smell. The smell is hard for me to handle. So I am stilll looking for an easy way to maintain the enclosure for the crickets.

If you're committed to crickets and you sift through the gutload every day or so, the smell should disappear.

Aliza