My cricket camp setup, no smell no high temps and its indoor

[Kryptek]

this is my cricket camp. Im still working out the kinks but I think this will be a very successful way to keep crickets indoors(my garage) without stinking up the place and keeping the temps a few degrees below ambient.
I took my old terrarium and piped the sides to the window unit sides for an exhaust and then installed a 8" fan on top of the tank to keep fresh air circulating, I sealed everything off so that way no stink comes out. Heres a few pictures of what it looks like. The next thing im looking into is a mister system to drop the temps way down to the 70s in 95 degree ambient temps. Right now at peak daytime heat my garage is around 90-95 or higher. With this fan system the temps stay consistently down to 85 or so.

 

[unkempt1]

Wow - that's insane! Kudos to you!

 

[Kryptek]

Thanks, it works really well.

 

[Kryptek]

well it was working really well, something happened and I lost close to 750 crickets in 2 days. The humidity has been high the past few days with a heat index of 105 and I had close to 1500 crickets in a 10 gal tank which I know is over crowded but I received a order from lll with 300 dead and they sent me another 1000 so I had no choice but to put them in there.
Im guessing a few died and it set off a chain reaction very quickly.
Im thinking im going to ditch the 10 gal aquarium and move up to a larger rubbermaid container with more cross ventilation.

 

[icelore]

Ouch. That sucks having such a big loss. Since it was working for you though, hopefully you'll have better long term results with a different tub!