Feeding live insects

[JLC]

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!

[Marla]

^What she said.

[Wizill]

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.

[Ironhead]

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.

[invadertoast]

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.

[JLC]

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:

[Marla]

WOW -- 30,000 mealworms? That's great! How big a container did that require?

[invadertoast]

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.

[JLC]

LOL....just what we all want in life....Free Mealworms!!

What critters do you have that you feed 'em to?

[Shadow_TA]

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..