Care Sheet for CricketsAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 2.00 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 09/25/2006 |
Main Category: | Misc |
Sub Category: | Crickets |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Lizardlady58 |
Years Experience: | 10 to 15 Years |
Species: | Chameleon bearded dragons |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | N/A |
Sexing and Characteristics: | N/A |
Mostly Active During: | Both |
Substrate and Water Needs: | I don’t use any substrate, but I do clean every day. I also use the old standbye egg crate for hiding places. Because crickets tend to drown in water, I use a cheap and easily disposable product called water keep. It is a gardening product but is made from the exact same materials that "cricket water" is made from except it comes in crystal form and you add water. It is also a heck of a lot cheaper! I change this water every other day. |
Lighting and UVB: | I have my tanks in a room that gets natural sunlight and that works fine. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | I keep my crickets as dry as possible, this helps keep down the smell as well as keeping their cage a fair bit more sanitary. |
Heating and Equipment: | I use an undertank heater for my adult crickets |
Caging Provided: | I use a large glass tank for my adults and large tupperware containers for the smaller ones. |
Diet: | Omnivorous |
Description of Diet: | I use mainly unmedicated chick feed with twice weekly feedings of veggies, I also throw in washed dandelion leaves and rose and hibiscus flowers on a regular basis.This feed is cheap and full goodies. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | I don’t use calcium in my cricket water or my cricket food, I’ve found that when I use calcium supplements, my crickets have a really hard time molting. |
Maintenance: | Care is relatively basic. Keep your crickets warm, well fed, dry and clean, and they will thrive. |
Some Words on this Species: | Even though careful attention is paid to "escape proff" feeding dishes, inevitably, a few will escape. I have found that the best way to catch these "escapees" is to put some dry food in a small tupperware container, cut a small hole in the lid, then lay a damp cloth across the top so the cricket has a way to access the container. Until I started doing this, I had no idea how many of the little buggers were getting out. I catch on average a dozen or so crickets a day. |
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