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 #1711542


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 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

It’s becoming a bit taxing to go and get crickets every week from the pet store 15-20 min. away, especially since I don’t have a car of my own and have to get a roommate to drive me. I think I’d like to start buying crickets online.

I checked out Fluker’s and the lowest amount they can ship is 50 crickets in a tube. I have a single green anole, which I give 3-4 crickets every 3-4 days, which means about 12-16 a week. Fifty crickets would cover three weeks but would the crickets live that long? Also, they have the crickets divided by size:
1 week (approx 1/8")
2 week (approx 1/4")
3 week (approx 3/8")
4 week (approx 1/2")
5 week (approx 3/4")
6 week (approx 1")
I know anoles need small crickets but what size should they be?
04/21/08  06:04pm

 #1711571


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1711542


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

This one site says:

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Crickets live for about 8 weeks. An adult cricket will survive for about two weeks. Pinheads may survive for over a month.



What are pinhead crickets, are those the 1/8"?
04/21/08  06:15pm

 #1714927


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1711571


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

yes



04/24/08  04:25pm

 #1714950


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1711542


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

If you put a wet cotton ball in with the crickets they will live longer.
04/24/08  04:44pm

 #1715247


TwilightRealm
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   Message To: Anole741   In reference to Message Id: 1714950


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

Why is that, Anole? If it’s moisture, I give them Fluker’s Cricket Food, the kind that is moist to provide a food and water supplement.

I got a second anole so I think I will go with Fluker’s crickets.

Now... here are some very important questions:

1. I have one mature anole and one juvie--what size crickets should I be going for? 1/8, 1/4..?

2. I know I should feed them every other day, but how many should I feed them altogether? Ten?

3. If I feed them ten every other day, that’s 70 crickets every two weeks, a total of 140 crickets a month. Week 1 - 4 times a week - 40 crickets
Week 2 - 3 times a week - 30 crickets - monthly total so far: 70 crickets
Week 3 - 4 times a week - 40 crickets - monthly total so far: 110 crickets
Week 4 - 3 times a week - 30 crickets - monthly total so far: 140 crickets
Of course I’ll want some extra crickets to spare, because some will arrive dead, some may die, and so forth.

I wish Fluker’s had other sizes aside from 50 and 100 a tube. It’s confusing trying to think of what to order and when. I suppose I could order a 100 tube twice a month. Each would only be $2 cheaper than 50 tube kind.
04/24/08  07:44pm

 #1715314


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1715247


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

the cheapest online crickets that i know of are cricketfactory.com which is $10.75 per 1000 crickets
04/24/08  08:23pm

 #1715513


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1715247


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

You can use the flukers cricket food but if you use a cotton ball then the crickets will aparently drink off of it. I have had my anole since tuesday and it is now thursday, i have gone thorugh about 25 crickets already. I feed them about two-three crickets every time i feed it. If i see that there is no more crickets in the tank then i give it two or three more. I give it as many as it will eat. hope this helpes

anole
04/24/08  10:09pm

 #1715514


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1715247


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

You can use the flukers cricket food but if you use a cotton ball then the crickets will aparently drink off of it. I have had my anole since tuesday and it is now thursday, i have gone thorugh about 25 crickets already. I feed them about two-three crickets every time i feed it. If i see that there is no more crickets in the tank then i give it two or three more. I give it as many as it will eat. hope this helpes

anole
04/24/08  10:10pm

 #1720093


TwilightRealm
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   Message To: Anole741   In reference to Message Id: 1715514


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

Going to try the dam cotton ball idea soon because nearly 1/4 of my crickets died. I forgot to check up on their food though and make sure to put more moist cricket feeder in, so that no doubt contributed. Typically even when I keep up with their food supply, I lose about 2-4.

I’ve decided because of this that I would like to buy from Fluker’s, weekly. I plan to buy 50 a week, since I don’t trust the cricket life span, and I’ll see how that goes.

Now is a very very important question, and I’d really appreciate if someone could get back to me on this as soon as possible: Should I be buying 1/4 size crickets for my anoles? If not, what size? One is mature and one is a juvie.

I ask 1/4 because I found this size sheet on another site: Link
04/29/08  02:30pm

 #1720555


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1720093


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

I’d like to order them from Fluker’s site, preferably tonight, since I’ll be busy tomorrow.
04/29/08  07:55pm

 #1720577


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1720555


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

I know that the crickets have to be smaller than the anoles head so as long as your anoles head is a quarter inch or longer then that should be fine. I think that 1/4 inch should be fine and check out the cricket breeder thing that ATRAX put up on here i am just going to do that and stop buying them. I go to petsco (where the pets go) and get 50 small a week for $4.98 so thats cheaper than flukers and I dust twenty five of them and put all fifty in there at once (I know i shouldn’t) because i dont have anywhere to put them well I do now and put some orange fluker stuff in there to keep them full so they won’t bite the anoles. I think though that breeding your own crickets would be much more efficient than spending so much money ever week and i mean your storing crickets anyway might as well put them to work right.
04/29/08  08:11pm

 #1720589


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   Message To: BCJC   In reference to Message Id: 1720577


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

Good lord, don’t put all fifty in there with the anole! That can’t be good..

As for the crickets, I’d rather pay a lot over a short period of time than pay a lot up front for the equipment of harvesting them. Besides, I live in an apartment with an eccentric cat who wants to eat the crickets--I’d rather keep them in their "kricket keeper" and hidden away than have them in another tank that she’s going to go nuts over. As it is I have to keep a spray bottle on hand for when she starts bugging the anole tank.

I went with the 1/4 crickets, 50 in a tube for $5, free shipping.
04/29/08  08:21pm

 #1720660


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1720589


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

Aha! I agree that placing lots of crickets in the habitat makes it dirtier... Long ago I posted that by keeping live plants (potted in dirt) gives the crickets a place to lay eggs and thus produces teeny pinheads. My adult male eats the biggun’s AND the tiny female eats the pinheads, (i never see her eat but she has not starved)

ONE "clean" food for the crickets is an orange slice or apple slice, Pinheads attack it in droves, stays relatively unspoiled as it dries out. Also a few dry flakes of oatmeal with essential calcium powder in a jar lid works for me.

Try raising ’yer own food!
04/29/08  09:23pm

 #1720665


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   Message To: Tigerlizzy   In reference to Message Id: 1720660


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

If buying them gets to be a problem, I’ll consider it.
04/29/08  09:29pm

 #1720728


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1720665


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

Yes! I always lose a few crickets to injury or shock, in answer to your earlier post. I am really glad they will reproduce on their own. Thanks for writing back.
04/29/08  10:19pm

 #1728248


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   Message To: Tigerlizzy   In reference to Message Id: 1720728


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

Wow. Just wow. Well, I received the crickets today and immediately canceled the ongoing subscription to Fluker’s cricket services. More than 3/4 of the crickets are dead, there’s probably more larval worms than there are living crickets, and now there’s a flying beetle hiding out in my bedroom. I had assumed Fluker’s had meant they’d be including some orange cube in a tube or something but silly me, they meant with the crickets (makes sense though); two itty bitty little cubes, really, riddled with holes from worms.

Horrifying.

I don’t want to buy a tank to raise my own crickets, it’s such a.. cricket commitment... so I’ll be returning to Petsmart for my live and worm-free crickets in a bag.
05/07/08  04:00pm

 #1728311


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1728248


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

ewwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
grosss!!!!!!!
05/07/08  04:43pm

 #1728403


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   Message To: Anolecarer   In reference to Message Id: 1728311


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

im telling you guys. www.cricketfactory.com is dirt cheap
05/07/08  05:43pm

 #1728830


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   Message To: Coolguy132435   In reference to Message Id: 1728403


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

Reptile City also sells cheap crickets, although I don’t know anything about them since I’ve never bought from them. Also, the minimum order is 125 count I think, which is kind of a lot... But that’s still less than $10.

Link



05/07/08  11:15pm

 #1728864


TwilightRealm
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   Message To: Rubix   In reference to Message Id: 1728830


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

CoolGuy, it is a good price only I don’t need 500 crickets, I just have two anoles.

Rubix, thank you but I also don’t need 150. It seems like the problem with having crickets shipped is that not many can make it, and I don’t think it takes much to kill a cricket.
05/07/08  11:40pm

 #1730107


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   Message To: TwilightRealm   In reference to Message Id: 1728864


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

Actually, those buggers are hard to kill XD haha.

But I normally get 2-3 weekers, the petstore here has started only doing 1 +4 weekers and that makes it a bit hard for me.
05/09/08  08:52am

 #1730556


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   Message To: Kumi   In reference to Message Id: 1730107


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

Why not raise your own. It’s cheaper in the long run and easier to control the size.
05/09/08  06:01pm

 #1739500


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   Message To: Atrax27407   In reference to Message Id: 1730556


 Cricket questions! (for an anole)

ok well tell me wat i need to raise crickets i agree i dont have 1.50 a week to go for crickets
also if u guys are saying there expensive put on your light out side your house and catch moths it give diversity to the diet and the anoles love chasing them its hillarious
05/18/08  07:58pm


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