How Do I Keep My Crickets From Dying

[cierahailee]

Everytime I buy crickets they die like crazy. I bought 500 online and within 2 weeks there are about 200-300 dead. I keep them in a very large plastic box with a lid with large holes cut out. I keep a dish with the gel cricket water and a dish with cricket food in it. Is there a trick to keeping them alive? What else do I need to do for them?

[*brains*]

Everytime I buy crickets they die like crazy. I bought 500 online and within 2 weeks there are about 200-300 dead. I keep them in a very large plastic box with a lid with large holes cut out. I keep a dish with the gel cricket water and a dish with cricket food in it. Is there a trick to keeping them alive? What else do I need to do for them?

what kind of food are u given them?

[cierahailee]

They eat that stuff from the pet store Flukers High Clacium Cricket Diet. I keep some in there at all times. Should I just give them some like 2 times a day or something? Maybe they are eating too much or something?

[*brains*]

well your suppose to change the water/food every 2 days.
Um what about temperature.??

They are to stay around 70-75 degrees
Never have a temperature above 80, or let it drop down to 65.

[Kristy]

Its the Flukers food. Its horrible. Its too high in calcium and it will kill your crickets faster than your animals will

You are much better off making your own gutload. I am not sure if cricketfood.com is still running but I would highly recommend them.

There are many other things you can feed your crickets, but anything high in calcium will kill them off really quick.

I feed mine fresh veggies for moisture and I use repashy's cricket food or crested gecko diet, since I always have such an abundance of it.

[*brains*]

ahahaha well there you go, guess its the fluke.

I would reccomend timberlinefisheries.com
Their cricket power food is awesome.

But either or website has goodstuff.

[cierahailee]

Thanks you guys! I will definately try a different food!

[Kristy]

No problem, you will notice a huge difference.

I fed that stuff back when I had leopard geckos and my crickets died really fast too. They weren't adult crickets so I knew something was wrong.

Even adults don't usually die that fast.

[cierahailee]

What about the Flukers Gel Water? You think that stuff is ok or should I use something else?

[Clear]

Crickets have a very short life span, nothing you can do to keep the masses alive. Get roaches! if you need something cricket size then lateralis works great, if you can deal with stuff bigger dubia, craniifer or discoids!