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 Cricket cage

Here is my set up for housing about 1000 crickets its a 33 gallon rubber maid container.

let me know what you think



06/23/08  02:06pm

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 Cricket cage



06/23/08  02:09pm

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 Cricket cage

Look good except I don’t know if that’s enough hiding places for that much crickets. Also does that blue water dish have a very slick surfaces? I got on of those ceramic water dish that was very slick and the crickets can’t seem to get in or out of the dish.
06/23/08  02:17pm

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   Message To: Computerkid26   In reference to Message Id: 1770740


 Cricket cage

Yea its one of the feeding dishes i had laying around i use them for mealworms for the leopard gecko.



06/23/08  03:26pm

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 Cricket cage

I have the exact same container - from Wal-Mart, I don’t use it breading though but feeding. I breed my crickets in a 50 gallon aquarium where I keep about 100 to 150 older crickets. I put a small box about 8" X 8" by about 1 1/2 inches deep, (I made 7 of these), with a metel screen mesh over it and its filled with peat moss. It stays in there for exactly one week, then I move it to a cupboard I built that has (2) 3-drawer tupper ware shelves in it, and a heat lamp. Each drawer eventually has crickets in it, one week in age apart. When I change the final drawer, I then put the first drawer of crickets, the oldest into the 33 gal blue tub for feeding to the dragons. One of the dragons lets me put him right into the tub, the other won’t and has to be hand fed.
The only part that screws me up, is every so often, you have to replenish the crickers in the 50 gal breeding tank with new guys, and their not usally ready for breeding right away.
06/28/08  02:59am


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