Cricket babies

[tomboy1988]

I can NOT keep my cricket babies alive. I can incubate/hatch millions of them, but they all die in the first week! Can someone walk me through how they care for their babies so I can see what I'm doing wrong. The first time the temperature was too low, so I fixed it. The second time there wasn't enough food, so I added more. The third time they just died. I even watched the Dirty Jobs special on Ghann's (who I get my crix from) and followed their way. They still die! Any advice from people who can keep their crickets alive? I'd appreciate it.

 

[fresnowitte]

I had run into that problem when I first bred them they would die in the first week even with correct temps, food, and water supply. I found that if you add a dampened paper towel to the baby bin just set it on the substrate then they would make it past this point much easier. Once they are no longer white they are usually okay without the dampened paper towel.

 

[tomboy1988]

Thank you so much. I'll try that with my next batch of babies. It gets really frustrating to have so many and have every single one of them die!