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 Crickets looking pretty good :)

Hello everyone :)
Just set up a new cricket habitat.. I think it pretty much covers the basics, but my first attempt failed due to a lousy batch of crickets from the local pet store. Anywho, thought I’d share some pics with everyone.

The water bottle was inspired by a design I saw on here.. everything in the tub is either home-made or stuff that would have otherwise been thrown out. The only thing not shown very well is a heating pad beneath a pillowcase on the bottom and the wire mesh on the lid.



(just thought this one was kinda funny..)

If there’s anything I should do differently, please let me know. :)

~T
02/12/08  05:38pm

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 Crickets looking pretty good :)

Hey nice setup. I used to reared and breed them but stop for quite some time now.
Few questions:
1)Can you give the steps and materials required to setup the water bottle system.
2)What do you feed them?
3)what kind/brand heating pad you use? I saw some lizard heating pad in a pet store but I have alway use a 60 watt incandescent bulb for heating.



02/17/08  02:48am

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   Message To: Computerkid26   In reference to Message Id: 1626813


 Crickets looking pretty good :)

The water bottle is very easy to make, but a little harder to explain.. I’ll post pictures of just the water bottle so you can see how it works later..

I feed them a combination of fresh greens (lettuce, bananas, apples, carrots, etc) and Jurassi-Diet gut-load.

The heating pad is a small sticky contraption made by Zoo Med for reptiles and arachnids, etc.. it gets too hot to put directly under the tub, though, the crickets literally cook themselves. so I have a folded pillowcase as a buffer.
02/22/08  07:01pm


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