Crickets freak me out.

[Cendrillon]

Yeah, I know, not the best for a long time reptile/amphibian owner. How do you guys handle having so many crickets in your house at a time? I know it's so much more cost effective to buy them in bulk/breed, but they're so creepy/smelly/loud. I only ever buy a couple dozen at a time...I hate finding them like, on the wall or the stairs or something. What if they get in your bed? Shiver. How do you guys deal with it? Do you just acknowledge their grossness and get over it, for the beardie's sake, or have you found a clean, escape-proof way to keep them?

 

[scm133]

My room sounds like the woods, with all the chirping..LOL!! Actually, it isn't that bad. I order 1000 at a time online, because I have one dragon, and eleven geckos. I keep them in a 20 gallon tank with screen lid. I use egg crates to give them more space, water crystals, pro gecko chow, and carrots. I clean out the cricket poo, and dead ones every three days. I have no bad smells, or escapes. I always pinch back legs off when feeding. Been doing this for over a year, now. I am a slave to my lizards..LOL!! :whip:

 

[reptilemaster]

I can imagin how you feel.
I've lokked closly at one and thought it looks like a freek :shock:

 

[tgolden]

keeping insects is part of owning reptiles. if you can't stand crickets maybe try some worms

 

[reptilemaster]

I'm going off crickets and getting worms for my beardy now

 

[trinity040400]

I have never hated any bug as much as I hate crickets! I am finally cricket free since both my dragons are full grown. But when I did have them I kept them in a 10gl fish tank with a fine mesh lid and they stayed in the garage. I dont think I could live with though things in my room, they are nasty little things. I now breed super worms and buy butter worms and silk worms mostly.

So you are not alone there are a ton of people here who hate crickets. :mrgreen:

 

[Kaiser]

I like all kinds of bugs and insects--except for crickets. I can handle spiders, worms, centipedes, slugs, wasps, roaches, whatever. But for some reason, I am absolutely terrified of crickets (and grasshoppers and locusts, since they look and behave relatively similar). Ha ha, confessions of a reptile keeper.

Anyway, if you don't want to deal with crickets and are willing to try out new things, roaches and worms are always an option. I worked with crickets for about two weeks before I decided I had had enough with them and switched to worms (black soldier fly larvae and occasionally superworms) for the past year and a half or so. One of the best decisions of my life, ha ha.

If you stick with crickets, hopefully someone can help you out with an escape-proof way to keep them. Godspeed!

 

[tgolden]

y'all are a bunch of Sissys lol