Do you feed or use corn/cornmeal as bedding for the crickets that you sell? Crickets

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Do you feed or use corn/cornmeal as bedding for the crickets that you sell? Crickets

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Oct 24, 2022 - 06:14 AM

We feed our crickets a blend of corn and red wheat flake made at our local grain mill (sold as cricket feed on our site)

You can feed them our cricket feed, chicken mash, or cornmeal at home. We highly recommend using Repashy Bug Burger as it contains their complete diet and a water source in one. If you feed chicken mash, be sure it doesn't have any chemical additives (antibiotics, for example). Crickets need 15 to 20% of their diet to be usable protein. Alternately, if you avoid corn, fish flakes are made from dried fish and are nice and high in protein. You can also use dry milk, ground dry cat or dog food, ground alfalfa, or ground rabbit pellets. They will just need a water source as well.

We don't feed our crickets gel-type water; on our large scale, we find it too hard to keep it consistently fresh and worry too much about bacterial contamination. Instead, we use chicken water feeders so we can sanitize them and give them fresh water daily. This can be replicated at home using a damp sponge in a shallow dish with water.

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How do you have your chicken water bottle feeder set up for crickets. Going into a sponge. Sounds like a good idea. I have recently bought just one FLUCKERS self water watering bowl/bottle. It works great. I cut a sponge to fit perfectly in the dish. I use it in one of my tanks with approximately 2000 crickets I don’t see them using it that much considering there’s 2000 crickets in that cage. I do leave a lot of vegetables usually last week I got lucky with probably 25 pounds of bananas for free that we’re going bad on hand right now. I have approximately 5000 crickets a quarter inch and bigger separated between four tanks. I just tried something new this week. I bought 4000 eggs which seems like a lot, but they’re so tiny. They were hatching in the Ziploc bag on the way here while shipping for those guys I’ve been using cotton balls inside of a cap, the other tanks, amusing water pillows, but I’m really not thrilled with these. I bought about 20 packs of them used at least half so far summer defective summer clumping I want a steady water source to have for all of these that are self watering with a sponge or something in there. I found one in China from alibabas.com but the shipping is just too expensive for a product that’s $1.50 apiece and if I buy 10 of them, the shipping was $56 defeats the purpose because I have cages /containers/tanks of every different thing out there. I just pupated super worms for the first time now for that ordeal. I picked up some super worms to have them morph and I just ordered 100 hornworms that I’m sure you’re gonna be tiny but I’m gonna feed someone and I’m gonna try to raise some others we’ll see what happens. Do you guys sell containers and stuff because your website is crashed keeps coming up 404 not found on all your different pages for sale.

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Eggs are TOUGH to raise, you have to keep the babies so warm, fed, and hydrated. You must be doing something right! I wondered how you keep the crickets from drowning in the self watering bottle?

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I don’t have the self watering bottle in with the baby crickets. I actually have something called water pillows from Zila and another manufacturer. Also they’re like $3.25 for six little ones do not cut them apart leave all three together, but my cricket supplier advised me to put cotton balls soaked shove them in a cap so there’s no room and keep it filled with water. I’ve done that a few times it’s weird from the heat light it almost makes it look the top like a roasted marshmallow. I only had the eggs in you made at 90°. I made a makeshift incubator like he told me 10 gallon tank Cricket feed all on the bottom two beverage containers one on top of the other put the media on top of the top beverage holder and the cricket jumped down every day or two he told me to go in there take the lower beverage container. I ended up taking both because I use the flat cover to put the substrate in with the eggs so I took the two Cricket containers and I went over to the 27 gallon tote. I had extra set up with screens bang them off in there with more cricket feed spread across the bottom and those pillows and one thing of the cotton balls in a cap but I don’t have the babies in heat but now you got me worried I might move them into my water heater room right there which would stay a lot warmer when I look today they seem to be alive. I ordered 2000 and he ended up giving me 4000 he told me obviously there’s no way to count them but I just saw a good video tonight that I watched a long time ago but now I understand it, but he made it seem like the crickets without wings about a half inch 5/8 reproduce and put the eggs and it was only a 10 minute YouTube video and he does it a little bit differently than I’m doing it right now but thanks for the heads up on the heat for the babies the heat bulb I’ve had running for a few days and they’re still a couple babies popping out. He told me when I receive them that if he was incubating them, they probably would’ve been hatching that day and they hatched in the weather from PA to NY, which was only overnight but they hatched in a Ziploc bag because when I took that media out that had to be 100 babies in there, but these things are like specs like a quarter of the size of a net. You can’t even make them out. You just see them hop around a little bit but there’s definitely a few thousand in the tote my other crickets I keep no problem. I have about 4000 and a 55 gallon tank 2000 and a 29 gallon exoteric tank with doors I use it cause it’s deep and then I have like a 39 gallon breeder maybe a 29 gallon it’s the same size as a 20 gallon just a lot taller with another thousand crickets in there that I bought I do pretty well keeping them alive. They don’t grow so quickly for me. I’ve noticed as they always say definitely keep the journey up. I was thinking about starting to talk about my crickets on my group that I just made for chameleons taking flights on FB East Coast chameleons maybe I’ll do my own YouTube video next time I get the eggs but this time was just a trial. I don’t have anything needing that size just yet I have eggs that are a week old so I got 6 to 9 more months, but this was just a trial run of the Cricket eggs on my FB. I’ve only been on it since the mid November and the last week or so I’ve had no time and I just started really pushing it the week Before check it out and tell me that you wanna follow my journey just join the group be good my name is Jason

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How do you have your chicken water bottle feeder set up for crickets. Going into a sponge. Sounds like a good idea. I have recently bought just one FLUCKERS self water watering bowl/bottle. It works great. I cut a sponge to fit perfectly in the dish. I use it in one of my tanks with approximately 2000 crickets I don’t see them using it that much considering there’s 2000 crickets in that cage. I do leave a lot of vegetables usually last week I got lucky with probably 25 pounds of bananas for free that we’re going bad on hand right now. I have approximately 5000 crickets a quarter inch and bigger separated between four tanks. I just tried something new this week. I bought 4000 eggs which seems like a lot, but they’re so tiny. They were hatching in the Ziploc bag on the way here while shipping for those guys I’ve been using cotton balls inside of a cap, the other tanks, amusing water pillows, but I’m really not thrilled with these. I bought about 20 packs of them used at least half so far summer defective summer clumping I want a steady water source to have for all of these that are self watering with a sponge or something in there. I found one in China from alibabas.com but the shipping is just too expensive for a product that’s $1.50 apiece and if I buy 10 of them, the shipping was $56 defeats the purpose because I have cages /containers/tanks of every different thing out there. I just pupated super worms for the first time now for that ordeal. I picked up some super worms to have them morph and I just ordered 100 hornworms that I’m sure you’re gonna be tiny but I’m gonna feed someone and I’m gonna try to raise some others we’ll see what happens. Do you guys sell containers and stuff because your website is crashed keeps coming up 404 not found on all your different pages for sale.
Eggs are TOUGH to raise, you have to keep the babies so warm, fed, and hydrated. You must be doing something right! I wondered how you keep the crickets from drowning in the self watering bottle?

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