Breeding crickets

[leatherbd]

I really want to be able to breed my own live food preferablly crickets unless there is a better option. so please help me with this it would be much appreciated. >>

 

[Beardednoob]

http://www.squidoo.com/bearded-dragon-central#module104866191

 

[leatherbd]

thks a lot

 

[Livey]

I would really advice roaches,
Ive tried Crickets and .. MY GOD DO THEY STINK!..
Roaches are very simple,
Also Supers are great to breed ( only for 16Inch + dragons)

 

[leatherbd]

thanks i think i will try the roaches and my beardie is almost 16 inches.

 

[N3LRX]

I made the decision to breed my own crickets. (I live in an Apt. and roaches are not an option) I bought some "Bed a Beast" (The stuff you buy at the pet store that expands in water) put some in a 1 inch deep plastic food container and placed it in my adult cricket cage. Almost immediately the females started digging around and laying eggs. Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll have some babies hatch.

I'll probably need to order a few hundred more to allow the babies to grow up but after that hopefully I can sustain enough live food for my beardie at minimal cost. I've got enough 10 gallon tanks that I can keep rotating them as an incubator, grow-up tank, and edible crickets.

I've got at least 30 females of breeding age now so hopefully at least a thousand or so babies will survive natures odds to grow up and be edible in a month or so. While those are growing I can use the ones I plan to buy soon from my supplier to breed more and start the process over again. Who knows, if things go right I may need to buy a few large plastic tubs to house all the crickets. I might even have enough to stock my local mom and pop pet shop and make a few bucks here and there.

If everything goes well all I will need to buy regularly would be cricket food and a few egg flats now and then. I can buy those online in bulk pretty inexpensively. Also when compared to store bought food the crickets seem to like the food I buy from my supplier better.

I've got plenty of calcium and vitamin supplement to last months, plenty of water crystals to last a year, and plenty of cricket food so I should be all set for a while.