So I went out and bought a cricket keeper that is rated to house up to 120 medium crickets. I buy my crickets 5 dozen at a time so I only have a need to go to the store about once a week at this point. I bought the Fluker's Orange Cube - Complete Cricket Diet food for them to eat so they stay alive and hydrated. Figured I was doing everything right according to what I read up on as far as maintaining crickets for at least a week until I eventually feed them to my bearded dragon.
My problem is over half of them die every time. I expect a few to die throughout a week long span but not half of what I buy. I've tried purchasing them from different pet stores thinking I had just initially bought 'bad crickets' and have had the best luck with the locally owned pet store in my town.
I keep them in the cricket keeper out in my garage so they don't stink up the house, I make sure the food stays hydrated and I clean it out with just hot water every week when I buy a fresh batch of crickets and change the food out. There is no sub-straight in my cricket keeper as there are tubes they can climb into I didn't see the need.
I'm hitting my head against a brick wall trying to figure out why they keep dieing in such mass quantities over such a short period of time. I'm really concerned about this because I don't want to be feeding my beardie bad crickets.
Any advice from those of you who are more experienced with keeping crickets would be a huge help! Am I doing it wrong? How should my cricket keeper be setup? Should I possibly place them outside in a shaded area? I'm at a loss here.![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
My problem is over half of them die every time. I expect a few to die throughout a week long span but not half of what I buy. I've tried purchasing them from different pet stores thinking I had just initially bought 'bad crickets' and have had the best luck with the locally owned pet store in my town.
I keep them in the cricket keeper out in my garage so they don't stink up the house, I make sure the food stays hydrated and I clean it out with just hot water every week when I buy a fresh batch of crickets and change the food out. There is no sub-straight in my cricket keeper as there are tubes they can climb into I didn't see the need.
I'm hitting my head against a brick wall trying to figure out why they keep dieing in such mass quantities over such a short period of time. I'm really concerned about this because I don't want to be feeding my beardie bad crickets.
Any advice from those of you who are more experienced with keeping crickets would be a huge help! Am I doing it wrong? How should my cricket keeper be setup? Should I possibly place them outside in a shaded area? I'm at a loss here.