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    I love my Cricket Keeper

    I just set up a medium sized (about a 2 gallon) cricket keeper from Petsmart. It came with 4 tubes and food trays. I filled one tray up with Nutro dry cat food and Juvie bearded dragon food (left over from when I had Tyke. He refused to eat the stuff so I have a ton of it.) and the other with Flukers all in one cricket food. Its moist to provide water, plus has vitamins and such. I love the tubes. I can easily take one tube out, make sure there are crickets in it, dump some dust down the tube, shake, dump out excess dust, and shake the crickets into the leo cage. Its so much easier than having to catch individual crickets and dunking them in dust.
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    Re: I love my Cricket Keeper

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny
    I just set up a medium sized (about a 2 gallon) cricket keeper from Petsmart. It came with 4 tubes and food trays. I filled one tray up with Nutro dry cat food and Juvie bearded dragon food (left over from when I had Tyke. He refused to eat the stuff so I have a ton of it.) and the other with Flukers all in one cricket food. Its moist to provide water, plus has vitamins and such. I love the tubes. I can easily take one tube out, make sure there are crickets in it, dump some dust down the tube, shake, dump out excess dust, and shake the crickets into the leo cage. Its so much easier than having to catch individual crickets and dunking them in dust.
    Awesome. I wonder how it would work for roaches.
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    Re: I love my Cricket Keeper

    Dunno. I've never raised roaches, but I hear that Leos like them. I've been trying to figure out where to get roaches to see if Chibi would like them.
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    Re: I love my Cricket Keeper

    And I think the only problem with this set up is the fact that those tubes make it harder to do quick cleaning. You'd have to shake the crickets out of them and remove the tubes before doing any sort of food and water replacement or cleaning. Other than that, they are great for feeder insects like crickets.
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    Re: I love my Cricket Keeper

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny
    Dunno. I've never raised roaches, but I hear that Leos like them. I've been trying to figure out where to get roaches to see if Chibi would like them.
    Roaches love em
    I keep blatta lateralis for my leos. Look at the bottom of the page. I think you can find them cleaper than that. Let me look
    http://www.clarksgeckos.com/feeders.htm
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    Re: I love my Cricket Keeper

    Do you feed them the adults?
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    Re: I love my Cricket Keeper

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny
    Do you feed them the adults?
    Yep, The adults are about as big as adult crickets
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    Re: I love my Cricket Keeper

    I think the only problem I would have keeping roaches is the temperature. At the moment, I feed my leo, Chibi, crickets and mealworms. I'm going out next week to get her some wax worms as a treat.
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    Re: I love my Cricket Keeper

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny
    I think the only problem I would have keeping roaches is the temperature. At the moment, I feed my leo, Chibi, crickets and mealworms. I'm going out next week to get her some wax worms as a treat.
    I just keep a heat pad on high under a tub for the roaches. The inside can reach over 115 degrees and they do fine. I keep them in the basement where it stays about 65 and they are fine
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    Re: I love my Cricket Keeper

    I have a smaller cricket keeper (mine has two tubes). I love mine as well - I don't have to try to catch crickets or handle them at all. I buy the crickets from the bulk bin, so they're in a bag, take it outside in case there are any escapees (but there aren't usually with the bag) and dump them in!


    I use the Flukers cricket food and the Flukers yellow gel stuff for water.

    Trixie knows now when she hears the tube being tapped against the side of her enclosure that crickets will soon be falling from heaven!

    She also loves wax worms but only gets two a week as a treat.

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