JessPets":1wmneql3 said:
halpern07":1wmneql3 said:
I have an 8 month old as well and I buy the Dubia's in bulk online. I couldn't keep 60 crickets alive long enough (maybe 3 days) and felt like I was always in the pet store buying them. I buy the Medium Dubia's and although they seem to be a bit more in price, they last alot longer (it is hard to kill them), I also supplement with silk worms and smaller horn worms. The vet said to take her down to one feeding a day, so I alternate greens and bugs so that helped too, I thought I was going to go broke feeding her.
Same!! The few times I attempted 1k crickets, they were all dead in two weeks. 1k dubias can last me a month, and are fairly cheap and good feeders.
I regularly order in 700 - 800 crickets.
first thing I do with them is divide them up into 9 - 10 x 2L cricket tubs (I have a horde of these from when I was buying crickets from petshops in tubs - these are cleaned before use), I put maybe 70 crickets in each tub.
I give them a hand full (8 - 10) dry RepCal adult beardie pellets to eat per tub
I give them a fresh chunk of carrot to eat and this is also their source of water.
I keep the tubs in a cardboard cricket tub bulk order box in the kitchen/dining room (about 24 - 26 degC)
Every 2 - 3 days I check the crickets and replace the carrot and top up the pellets, any dead crickets are removed.
A few days before I'm ready to feed the crickets to the lizards I add buk or puk choi greens to gut load them.
I can keep my crickets going OK for over a month. I avoid buying adult crickets , restricting myself to 2/3 size crickets (they become adult crickets in 2 - 3 weeks) .
Crickets are easy to keep.