Raising your own crickets

[nats]

OK, I'm already dreading another super cold winter and problems with cricket deliveries!!

Has anyone tried these cricket kits (or something like it) to raise your own??

http://www.wormman.com/pd_cricket_breeding.cfm

 

[Baoh]

I have a beat up 55 gallon tank in my garage that I lined with a mix of leaf litter, calci-sand, topsoil, and lawn clippings. I pour some water in there every so often, I throw carrot and apple pieces within, and I leave one piece of moistened egg crate in there. I bought 500 crickets for ~$10 at a local show and dumped them in there. I have not run out yet, although I have not been using crickets as feeders recently because they smell and are just generally inconvenient. I like pinkies so much more than anything else and I just barely like superworms more than crickets.

Anyway, the good side is that I have feeders at all times for any size leo.

 

[nats]

You are right, they are bloody inconvenient.
But my male wont eat mealies. He just pushes them around with his nose and licks off the calci dust!!