Trying to breed my crickets
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that should be plenty to start a small colony depending on how many animals you're feeding with them. Probably won't get any feedable crickets for 6 weeks or so I think.
ReptileWorld
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you can start your colony with any amount of crickets but the less crickets you start with the longer it will take to build. Back when i was breeding crickets i purchased a box of 1k crickets and tossed half into a feeding bin and half into a breeding bin. The bin i used for breeding was a huge plastic tub with egg flats and a heat pad. no substrate and a tub of dirt for them to lay in. Every month i would swap the tub of dirt out with a fresh one and kept adding the dirt with eggs in it to a nursery tub where they would hatch and eat and grow.
kept the breeding tub between 80 to 90F and the nursery tub as close to 90F as possible ( not easy to achieve these temps in a temp controlled home )
Then as the crickets in the nursery grew up i would start a new nursery bin and that bin would become my new feeding bin. so its bascially all about cycling.
diet was carrots, greens, oranges, water gel sometimes. mostly i fed them in a dish carrots and greens lightly misted.
hope this helps.
fyi dubia is 10 times easier and takes much less energy and effort.
kept the breeding tub between 80 to 90F and the nursery tub as close to 90F as possible ( not easy to achieve these temps in a temp controlled home )
Then as the crickets in the nursery grew up i would start a new nursery bin and that bin would become my new feeding bin. so its bascially all about cycling.
diet was carrots, greens, oranges, water gel sometimes. mostly i fed them in a dish carrots and greens lightly misted.
hope this helps.
fyi dubia is 10 times easier and takes much less energy and effort.
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