Care Sheet for CricketsAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 3.40 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 07/31/2006 |
Main Category: | Misc |
Sub Category: | Crickets |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | April99lovesheranole |
Years Experience: | 3 to 5 Years |
Species: | Feeder Cricket |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | N/A |
Sexing and Characteristics: | Male have large wings on their back, and only have to ’feelers’, females have two feelers and a long ovipositer to deposit eggs into soil. |
Mostly Active During: | Both |
Substrate and Water Needs: | I use plain white, no-ink paper, the crickets don’t seem to mind, and it’s very easy to maintain and clean. |
Lighting and UVB: | They don’t need a definite light source to survive, but they seem to grow faster with lighting. I have mine in a 10 Gallon tank with a lighting fixture on during the day. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | Adult’s are not too picky, but when trying to hatch eggs, or keeping newborn pinheads, aim for about 77 F. |
Heating and Equipment: | They don’t really need it.. |
Caging Provided: | All of mine are in a 10 gallon tank, I have a large egg carton, and smaller pieces of carton scattered around the tank, with an empty paper towel roll, and 2 toilet paper rolls with holes in them. They’re also, two containers, about 2 1/2" deep in their, with organic potting soil (WITHOUT CHEMICALS.. PLEASE!) that is loosly in their, not compacted tightly. |
Diet: | Omnivorous |
Description of Diet: | I feed mine oats, lettuce, potato peels and small slices, carrot, small bits of apple, romaine lettuce with water sprinkled on it for more water. For water, I have a small lid about 1/4" deep, with spring water in it, I change it, and they food supply daily. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | To make them more nutritious for my herps, I sprinkle their food with Calc D3 2000 powder. |
Maintenance: | Since I use paper, I clean mine whenever I get a new shipment of breeder crickets, or 2 times monthly. It never seems to get dirty, they seem to defecate in the egg cartons. |
Some Words on this Species: | They are very nutritious for your reptiles and amphibians, you can raise them to whatever size you would like to make it a good size to feed to your animals. |
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