Help my crickets are dying and I don’t know why!

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BallerNick

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I have my crickets in a 40 gallon glass aquarium with plenty of areas to hide. I have corn flakes for food and for water a moist pape towel. When the crickets die I always take them out to get rid of the ammonium created. Also, I have vermiculite as substrate to get rid of excess waste. I have the crickets in my garage which provides plenty of heat(so I don’t need a heat lamp). I have 3 crickets die every day that are medium sized and haven’t reached full grown length!! I even check if it’s shed exoskeleton and it’s not. I’m confused please help.
 

CooperDragon

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Crickets can be tough to keep alive. It sounds like they have water but not too much, and enough food. They have a place to hide which is good. Maybe try a little bit of squash or something like that and see how they do. Changing their food source might help. Keeping them warm definitely helps. That said, I ran into a lot of trouble keeping them alive for very long myself and wound up switching to roaches after a while because of it.
 

Claudiusx

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What is the temperature in your garage?

Is your vermiculite 100% pure?

I have never had great success keeping them alive either.

-Brandon
 
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