Breeding Mealworm & Crickets

Hey everyone.. I just want to ask u guys can you tell me how do I get start on breeding mealworm and crickets.I'm breeding it for my Leopard Gecko.. I'm tried of going back to the pet store all the time I walk there from my place to there I don't drive or take bus I just walk there it take about 25 or 15 min to get there...

I will be breeding rats soon too for my Bp... I know what cage I'm going to put the rat in...
http://www.bigappleherp.com/bigappl...products/110100

i would try this to breed your crickets.

http://www.bigappleherp.com/bigapple...roducts/470165

mealworms:
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ight=mealworms
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ight=mealworms

crickets:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=bre...ficial&fr=moz2

If you have any specific questions, we can help you out. I've raised both.. crickets are disgusting though.. I like my lobster roaches!

alright everyone thxs..

A piece of cork bark in the enclosure seems to provide a great place for the mealworm beetles to lay eggs on.

I'm slowly getting to the stage of baby mealies. I have a lot of beetles running around right now though.

Mealies are real easy. I bought some mealies from grubco a year ago and still have a bunch since they've been breeding this whole time.

I wish I had the problem of wanting crickets to breed again. Some of my scorpion setups have a hundred pinhead crickets scattering in all directions due to ovipositors finding fresh soil before finding a set of claws to cuddle with. For the hassle .... to heck with raising them by the colony IMO. I find that if I need a supply of pinheads, I just keep the 2 dozen for the next feeding in a medium critter keeper plastic aquarium for 24 to 48 hours. Leave the soil unpacked and they will fill it with eggs. I put the setup on top of lilliths aquarium near the heat source and 2 weeks later (cant recall how long it takes its been so long) tons of wonderful little pinheads to love and cherish. I find that much easier than the constant maintenance required to keep a whole mess of them alive and breeding. I only intentionally start producing pinheads when I have a scorpion pop.

i keep (not breed) crickets for my tarantulas, butterfly fish and my geckos, frogs and anoles... what i do is keep some coconut fibre in the bottom of the container (as i find i get less deaths with something on the bottom - weird eh?)

and then i feed chicken mash and dog food with that cricket gel for water... and things seem to be going well. when i have a female who looks like she'll lay some eggs, i pop her into Princess Louifee's tank (pacman frog) and then i end up with pinheads in there :) works well. i just put a few egg crate pieces in there and gather up the pinheads.

but it's not choosing to breed really... it's just taking advantage of the opportunity.

Crickets may be the most disgusting food item in the herp world.

i recently discovered tiny pinhead crickets abounding in my leo lay box. guess they aren't so hard to breed after all if you provide a nice warm and humid incubator for the eggs... needless to say the laybox has been replaced. and yea jamie, crickets are pretty gross. i still feed them about once a week to adult cresteds and leos and more to my hatchling cresteds to help them put on weight faster. if it wasn't for the hatchlings needing them i'd be feeding them much less. blech.

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Originally Posted by jglass38

Crickets may be the most disgusting food item in the herp world.

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Those of us that breed feeder roaches will probably agree with you.

I love my feeder roaches and mealies :)

Ditto Schlyne. I hate crickets.. I hope my new tarantual I'm getting will like lobster roaches.. because that's what (s)he is getting!

Mealies are nice because they don't stink and they're very low maintenance.

it is unbelievable how clean roaches are in comparison to crickets. i mean--they're roaches! but they are so clean and don't smell at all. amazing how that works.