Care Sheet for CricketsAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 3.30 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 04/23/2006 |
Main Category: | Misc |
Sub Category: | Crickets |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Firefly |
Years Experience: | 1 to 2 Years |
Species: | Brown House Cricket |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | N/A |
Sexing and Characteristics: | The female’s have the blackish/brown ovipositor at the end of their abdomen while the males do not and the adult males make the chirpping noise. Juveniles are hard to sex. |
Mostly Active During: | Both |
Substrate and Water Needs: | It is easier to have no substrate. The substrates only trap odor and make the cages hard to clean. They have many varitiesof gel-like waterers.If you hve shallow enough of a container you can use distilled or spring water without anything in it, i.e. sponge, etc. Or you could just fill a sponge with water. |
Lighting and UVB: | A little bit of sun a day will keep the crickets healthier. A 60-100 watt light bulb will be good. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | The temp. should be between 70-80 degrees and humidity should stay fairly low. |
Heating and Equipment: | A 60-100 watt bulb will give enough heat. If that doesn’t work UTHs work well. |
Caging Provided: | I give them a 10 gallon tank with no substrate. They climb on egg cartons and the cardboard roll when the paper towel runs out. I give them water in a shallow lid and i scatter dry dog food, apple, carrot, potato, and some greens. I sprinkle the carrot and potato with calcium powder. |
Diet: | Omnivorous |
Description of Diet: | They will eat anything thay can get ahold of. They tend to be cannabalists so clean out their dead every other day. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | N/A |
Maintenance: | They tend to be easy to mantain. I clean their tank once a month between shipments. I discard of the old climbing things and add new. I clean their water and change their food every other day. |
Some Words on this Species: | They make good feeders for herps. |
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