perlite for cricket eggs?

[AFireInside]

So does anyone use perlite for the crickets to lay eggs? I just bought some and I'm wondering how everyone else did with it.

 

[mynewturtle]

I use a small container with top soil, and I remove the container from the cricket encloser once every two weeks. Never used perlite.

 

[Halley]

I might try it, sounds like it could work.

 

[GeckoGathering]

Perlite/Crickets

So does anyone use perlite for the crickets to lay eggs? I just bought some and I'm wondering how everyone else did with it.

If you are talking the adult crickets laying their eggs in it.
No. That's not a wise choice. The material perlite is a drainage material and your water will go to the bottom. You want a material that will stay damp where the adult will stick their egg tube into........Sphagnum Moss was a good choice for me.......there are others though.... take care .. HJ

 

[spykerherps]

I have never bred crickets intensionally but when I had my leos on sand (vita sand) some of the crickets would lay in that so occasionally I would have pin heads hoping around every were . I imagine play sand would work fine too just keep it slyly damp and warm. good luck.

 

[hopingforbabies]

I had a hide/lay box with moist vermiculite,and the crickets would always lay thier eggs in it.Every few weeks I would have hundreds of tiny crickets hopping around.I just switched out the container and let them grow.I would drop in some potato and oats/cornmeal and they do great.

 

[AFireInside]

thanks guys. I decided to go with the moss.