I bought 1000 crix for the first time...

[herpencounter]

...in 3 years! I gata say... I don't miss it.

 

[robin]

:main_rolleyes:

i hate crickets

 

[thegeckoguy23]

I bought 500 from flukers ones NEVER AGAIN they packaged it all wrong so my mom took the package from a dude while i was out of state for the day and i got home they were crawling out of the box and my mom just took them and set them down after that I switched from turkey/deer/smallgame hunter to a cricket hunter :main_rolleyes::main_angry::main_angry::main_angry::main_thumbsdown:

 

[acpart]

Here's the other side of the story: I get 1000 or 2000 every 2 weeks or so. I have the transfer down so I don't lose any. I like the outdoors sound that fills my house and the smell is really not that bad given how I keep them.

Aliza

 

[reptilekeeper]

I only buy 100 every week (enough for 2 firebelly toads, a crested gecko and a leopard gecko) I have good luck keeping them and they dont stink.

 

[mmyers80]

I usually buy 1000 a month.

I keep them in two separate bins (I think 28 liter, not sure) with two levels of egg crates in each. I try to separate it so I have (what looks like) 500 in each bin. I've found this really helps keep them alive the longest. No over crowding.

I also throw in an empty paper towel roll, so I just pick that up and shake it into my feeding container, so there's no escapes and no mayhem trying to round up enough crickets.

I usually get mine from reptile food. No problems so far! But it is definitely a PIA.

 

[ajkry2]

crix are gross

supers or dubia are better IMHO

 

[Tony C]

I'm up to about 7000 a month now, and hate every last one of them. :main_rolleyes:

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Mine prefer supers to crix (bless them!) but I'm working toward switching them to mealies. I'm going to sell my veiled chameleon so there will no longer be a need to order 1000 crix. We can pick up 100 at a show 8 out of 12 months a year for a treat. I'm over the big tub of crickets. :freak:

 

[herpencounter]

Mine prefer supers to crix (bless them!) but I'm working toward switching them to mealies. I'm going to sell my veiled chameleon so there will no longer be a need to order 1000 crix. We can pick up 100 at a show 8 out of 12 months a year for a treat. I'm over the big tub of crickets. :freak:

I was going to buy supers, but my local pet store forgot to place the order O.O Its a mom and pop kind of place, and I have been going there since before they owned it lol I always get good deals from them =P They always place orders for the odds and ends stuff I dont want to bother with so I let it slip (lol) I got 100o crix for 1/3 the price for the mishap. My mealie colony is not producing like it use to so I had to supplement.

Tony-

I use to but 12,000 crix a month.

 

[JordanAng420]

12,000 crickets a MONTH? Good god!

 

[herpencounter]

12,000 crickets a MONTH? Good god!

Two words!

Dont breed bearded dragons! Plus or minus a word or two.

 

[Tony C]

Two words!

Dont breed bearded dragons! Plus or minus a word or two.

That's why I say no every time my girlfriend brings up breeding our beardies. I won't be much better off once I get my frogs breeding though... :main_rolleyes:

 

[acpart]

Last season during my leo baby explosion I went through 10,000 mealworms in 4 weeks!

Aliza

 

[leoman777]

ahh i remember the first time i bought a thousand crix... it was like a nightmare getting them in the tub..they smelled so bad lol i just stick to small amounts of crix and mealies lmao

 

[herpencounter]

ahh i remember the first time i bought a thousand crix... it was like a nightmare getting them in the tub..they smelled so bad lol i just stick to small amounts of crix and mealies lmao

The first time I ever bought bulk crix was 3,000 OMG talk about nightmare! It didn't take long after that, that I learned how NOT to put crix in a box HAHA had prob 200 crix escape just from that haha Family wasn't thrilled >.>

 

[roger]

Here's the other side of the story: I get 1000 or 2000 every 2 weeks or so. I have the transfer down so I don't lose any. I like the outdoors sound that fills my house and the smell is really not that bad given how I keep them.

Aliza

I just hatched about 500 crix eggs

 

[adam&nikki]

i use about 2 k crix every 2 weeks aswell as 1000 mealies im glad im getting every one mealies cuz crix are getting to expensive

 

[ajkry2]

dubia for the win!!!

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