my crickets escaped

[sportbike_rob]

lol, well walked into my room and the cricket box was quiet, too quiet. i took the lid off the box and there wasnt any crix in there seen a few hopping their way around my room and working their way to the rest of the house.......seems my 3 year old nephew was in there playin with them before i got home from work, well, now i gotta go hunt them down and try to catch as many as i can:wall: .

im switchin to meal worms.....crix are a pain.

 

[npsk8ter]

Try dumpin a box of 1000 crickets in your room! Scoopin them up by the handfulls! Sucked and had crickets all over the house for months!

 

[sportbike_rob]

Try dumpin a box of 1000 crickets in your room! Scoopin them up by the handfulls! Sucked and had crickets all over the house for months!

dang, id say it was a few shy of 100. you got me beat..lol. my gecko dont really seem to enjoy them very much anyway. im gonna switch to meal worms, i thought roaches.....but i really dont want those roaming around after my nephew gets ahold of them.

 

[dsreptiles]

1 cricket is enough to drive u nuts.... 100-1000 fuhgettaboutit'

 

[sportbike_rob]

1 cricket is enough to drive u nuts.... 100-1000 fuhgettaboutit'

tell me about it, i got most of them, but there is still a few running around that i am having trouble finding.

 

[npsk8ter]

yeah mine have been slowly switch to mealies! sooooo much easier! crickets maybe 1 or 2 times a week if that! just to see them chase down their prey! They all eat different too! Weird!

 

[sportbike_rob]

yeah, i dont think mine likes crickets anyway. it takes a while of me holding it in front of his nose just to get him to eat one. if i place four in his tank, four come out at night. he dont eat them at all. i got him to eat about three in the last few days. im gonna pick mealies up. and try those out when i go to the pet shop to pick the rest of my goodies up.

 

[leopardgecko95]

reptilefood.com and wormman.com are also good places to get mealies and other feeders offline

 

[Mel&Keith]

We've used both of those suppliers. Wormman tends to screw up orders but reptile food has been really good so far. We always have some escapees hopping around the house but it gives the dogs something to chase so it's ok I guess.

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

I had 200 crickets chew through their plastic bag and escape... IN MY CAR!!! Talk about fun. Geeze.

 

[KiKi]

i would have gone crazy with that many crickets loose in the car. we only use mealies our leos dont like crickets, my male kept killing them.

 

[RaiQuee]

Ed always gets crix for the beardies and other random critters. He left two boxes, 1000 each out without putting them away. Crix chewed out and we had about that many running our room! The cat's water dish is where we found most! The cats would sit around their water dish with a look like "Hey, what is this?!" haha

 

[LadyGecko]

Yikes Marcia
Crix loose in the car-Ewwwwwwww!!!
I always have a few crix lose in the house-When i am pouring them out of the dusting bag that i use to go from tank to tank-some always manage to escape
Unfortunately-they are faster than i am

I admit to dropping a bag with a couple hundred more than once and having them running all over the house and the cats going completely nutso after them!!

I alternate roaches-mealies-crix and super worms for my geckos and they all seem to do pretty well on that diet
Man-I have a lot of bugs around here-LOL

Sandy