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For those who have to feed live insects like crickets and mealworms and such....what is the most convenient way to deal with them? Do you make frequent trips to the petstore to buy 'em? Do you keep a few days' worth somewhere in the house? Or breed your own? (Not a pleasant thought to me!) If you keep a few days' worth...how do you keep them?
Thanks for putting up with all my questions!
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I keep crickets, probably the wrong way, but it works. I just keep them in a little plastic aquarium with lizard litter, and i fill up the top to a gain dish-washing liquid half-way with water (JUST THE TOP), and then put enough lizard litter in the top also to soak up most of the water... where they can drink, but not drown. i buy 20 crix a week for a dollar, and they'll live in the enclosure i provide for up to a month before they die out.
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Dont know about crickets, and I dont have critters to feed crickets or meal worms to, but I do use meal worms for fishing and they keep for several week's in the refrigerator in the container they come in from local bait shops. You get about 2 dozen and they cost about 90 cents from the bait shop around here. Dont know if that helped, but that's all I can give on the subject.
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I buy the cups of mealworms from the pet store and keep them in the fridge with a little bit of cricket quencher 'til they're gone.
Last year I accidentally had 30,000 mealworms shipped to me -- apparently there's a zoo in California named Lindsay that ordered from the same place I did! I ended up giving them to a local pet store.
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Thanks guys...good info!
Lindsay...that must have been quite a surprise package! LOL I'm not sure how I'd feel finding that many mealworms staring up at me! :shock:
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WOW -- 30,000 mealworms? That's great! How big a container did that require?
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They came in a big bag packed in a fairly big box. I was shocked, I'd only ordered from this company once before and it had been almost a year. I didn't know what to do with them so I called the company and they said they'd call back, and never did, so I kept some and gave the rest away. The pet store I gave them to said I can have free mealies now, lol.
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LOL....just what we all want in life....Free Mealworms!!
What critters do you have that you feed 'em to?
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Learning more about Boas....
I buy a couple dollars worth of crickets and keep them in a critter keeper from wal mart.. I put cricket quencher in there and some baby oatmeal and whey and a crumpled paper towel for them to hide under.. If I can stand the chirping, they stay in the bedroom by one of the lamps to keep warm.. Usually they end up in another room.. As far as meal worms, I just toss them in the fridge..
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I don't use crickets for anything.....they're too messy, too noisy and too hard to keep alive. I order my mealworms and waxworms online and keep em in the fridge. I used to breed Lobster Roaches as well.
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I buy them from the pet shop and immediately feed em to the pets. The toads can take 20 in between them if they wanted. They are crazy eaters.
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So John...how often do you have to go to the petstore to feed your toads?
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i buy crickets in 500 or 1000 lot boxes and keep em in a rubbermaid with some carrot or potato(e)
i used to breed em but there were mites in there that went crazy so i quit that real fast-i think my male emp. scorpion drown himself cause of them-i found him in his waterdish.Looked like he tried to dunk himself but couldnt quite do it and just stayed there too long.
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Huh....I never thought of mites plaguing insects and aracnids, too. I guess you can't exactly wipe down your scorpion with the same mite treatment you would use on your snake!
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those mites were probably baby crickets.... They look like them, real small.
I buy em every 3 days or so.
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I've got crickets living in my basement (the ugliest crickets I've ever seen...don't look like the normal brown ones in the petstore, nor the big black ones I'm used to from Texas). Would it be OK to toss those into a lizard cage as I find them? I'd love to have a cricket terminator down there! LOL
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LOL....just what we all want in life....Free Mealworms!!
What critters do you have that you feed 'em to?
I feed 'em to leos
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I've got crickets living in my basement (the ugliest crickets I've ever seen...don't look like the normal brown ones in the petstore, nor the big black ones I'm used to from Texas). Would it be OK to toss those into a lizard cage as I find them? I'd love to have a cricket terminator down there! LOL
Maybe what you have are what we call "camel crickets" or "cave crickets" around here. They are ugly as homemade sin and have rounder bodies than your typical black or brown cricket, tend to be found in basements, crawl spaces, and caves (prefer dark, cool & humid), and always look hungry. When I lived in a basement I woke up to find them in my bathroom every morning. Yuck!
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Judy, I'm very wary of feeding anything wild-caught to our pets, but given the state of some of the pet store inventory we've heard about on here, wild-caught might be preferable.
We get our crickets from the pet store once a week. I think we've been getting about 20 of them at a time. We coat them with a calcium/vitamin d dust and throw them in the tank with the lizard. He usually eats all of them at once (which is quite a show), then he's good for the week. During the week we offer fruits and veggies. Occasionally we give him a pinkie too.
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That sounds like them, Marla. And they're very leggy...sometimes I think it's a big ol' spider. Yuck yuck. But at least they stay down in the basement. Those TX crickets would get into your bedroom and sing all night and you could never figure out where it was coming from. I never minded cricket songs outside...but when its in the same room....ugghhh!
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LOL, Judy, yeah it's very distracting trying to sleep in the middle of the cricket opera house! Of course, the fact that the camel crickets stay in the basement isn't especially an advantage when _you_ also stay in the basement. ;) By the way, you can expect to have them in Alabama, too. :lol:
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By the way, you can expect to have them in Alabama, too. :lol:
Uuugghhhh....LOL I was hoping they were a Virginian phenom.
Smynx....thanks for the info! I really like your plated lizard. Did you have him from a baby? How easy are they to care for as babies and when they're grown?
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i hate cave crickets. i squish on sight.
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Tokay geckos have become pretty populated in Florida because people have bought them cheaply in pet shops as pest control and released them in their house. Release four tokays and you'll have a dramatic decreade in insect noticeable at about 2.5 weeks later. Dunno if you should do it tho...
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By the way, you can expect to have them in Alabama, too. :lol:
Uuugghhhh....LOL I was hoping they were a Virginian phenom.
No such luck. :lol: I guess they're an eastern thing or maybe southeastern. I know I didn't see them when I lived in Tacoma, but then again I've never seen a 5-inch long bright yellow slug in Georgia. yecchhh But hey, if you have a cricket-eating pet you could certainly reduce the number of camel crickets in your house. :)
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