I guess I am breeding crickets too!

[hopingforbabies]

I went away for the weekend and just got back.I checked the geckos,in the lay box there were tiny bugs.I had them about a month ago and dumped them in the trash thinking they were fruit flies.I was thinking today,if they are flies,why are they not flying? I looked closer and they are crickets! Hundreds of them.Now what? I switched bins and put some carrots in.I don't know much about crickets.

 

[GeckoGathering]

Feeding/Raising Crickets

I went away for the weekend and just got back.I checked the geckos,in the lay box there were tiny bugs.I had them about a month ago and dumped them in the trash thinking they were fruit flies.I was thinking today,if they are flies,why are they not flying? I looked closer and they are crickets! Hundreds of them.Now what? I switched bins and put some carrots in.I don't know much about crickets.

Sounds familiar.I transfered and changed out lay boxes the same way. Raised the crickets up on bran with added carrots, oranges, and a number of other things we use around the house......They came along fine. Fed them when they were large enough. Problem with it is dealing with it each time the crickets lay in the Geckos lay boxes. Plus the deal on crickets became known that they carry pin worms. If the cricket pin worms get strengthened from eating the poop available it may cause problems in the gecko if they eat those crickets. So my opinion was to stop using crickets and work to create better meal worms and other prey................Lots of crickets are fed with out problems but this was just my opinion and choice. Take care... HJ

 

[acpart]

I have also accidently bred crickets in the lay box. when that was happening I would try to take each one out with a shot glass and put them in my small cricket container (I have day geckos so I have to have small crickets). Now my planted african fat tail tank has become cricket central. I harvest them when I need them and put some bottle caps of gutload in there so they won't bother the geckos.

Aliza

 

[Heraskeeper]

Same thing happened to me except it was in a plant I had implemented into the vermiculite. I noticed the plant start to slowly die, and I was afraid to add any plant vitamins due to the harmful side effects it might have had on the gecko. By the time I realized there were cricket larvae eating the plant from the inside it was too late. ive been doing everything i can to make sure that they dont breed inside the cage again as they seemed to really bother the heck out of geckos as they were to small to eat.