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 Cricket eggs? Help

Can someone tell me what cricket eggs look like? I’ve been trying to breed my crickets for a while but I have no clue what I’m looking for.I’ve got about 100 crix in a 10 gal cage filled with potting soil and egg crates.I feed them cat food, asparagus,romaine,collards,and just about any other vegetable I can find in my fridge.I think I might have eggs because there are small white things in it but I can’t tell.Can someone post pics of their successful breeding setups and cricket eggs?
07/16/08  04:00pm

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 Cricket eggs? Help

Well the cricket egg is very small, but soewhat easy to see if you know what you are looking for. A cricket egg looks like a super thin oval. They are white, and somewhat long. about 1/16 of an inch long. You shouldn’t have soil at the bottom of the container, to messy. Your best bet is to get a Glad tupperware container, and fill it with vermiculite, or eco-earth. Put this in with the adult crickets. Keep it damp not wet, but so it is nice and moist. Spray it every now and then. Wait 1-2 weeks, and take the container of soil out of the cage, and incubate it at around 80-85F. Eventually(2-3 weeks) your incubator will be swarmind with pinheads. While being incubated keep spraying the soil until around 1 month after. Give the pinheade water, and food. And you will be good to go!

-Ryan
07/17/08  03:35pm

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 Cricket eggs? Help

Alright, now for the other side... We’ve got a live terrarium, live plants, a fountain, little river and so on...
Now, yesterday we were cleaning it out when we noticed all of these little tiney bugs crawling around under the fountain and elsewhere. We have had several full grown adut crickets in there together at the same time... and looking at pictures online, it does look like it could be baby crickets... but we’re not sure.

Just to be safe, we’ve taken out our red eye tree frog and anoles and so on... we’re just wondering how long it takes for them to get to a recognizable size so we can confirm it’s crickets and not something horribly bad that could be deadly or harmful for our anphibians or worse... our room FULL of BPs.

Thank you in advance.

Justyn and Stef
07/22/08  01:36pm

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 Cricket eggs? Help

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we’re just wondering how long it takes for them to get to a recognizable size so we can confirm it’s crickets and not something horribly bad that could be deadly or harmful for our anphibians or worse.



Newly hatched crickets look like tiny adults, except they’re white. They turn brown fairly soon, and grow pretty quickly.

Can you look at one with a magnifying glass? If it’s a baby cricket, it will look like a cricket.

These pinheads are approx. 1 week old.



07/26/08  02:43pm


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