Where do you house your crickets and/or superworms?

[Immy]

I bought a pack of 24 crickets-to-go at petsmart yesterday and put them all in the tall metal container, I added some dry milk, rolled oats, carrots and apples. I let them chill in there and a saw some eat the food. But, they all look like they're more comfortable hanging around the egg carton. Now, I don't see them eating at all. I'm trying hard to gutload these guys so I can feed them to the gecko I got last night. Some of the crickets have already died. I also bought some supeworms, too. I feed them an apple and a carrot, they currently reside in a little sterlite container. Two have died already, but I'm covering them up in rolled oates so they can eat and burrow. I have no clue about taking care of them. I just want them to eat so my gecko friend can get all the nutrients he needs.

[zackw419]

You really only need to gutload them right before you feed them off. If they have the option of cartons or no cartons they will choose cartons. Always put their food under the cartons, they will eat in darkness. But my advice for gutloading is put them in a small container with a top, don't give them any hiding spots, just add all the food you want to gutload them with in the small container with them. Cover the container with a towel so its dark, leave them like that for a hour then feed them off.

As far as superworms, honestly they have very little nutrition, they are not necessarily good for reptiles, they are very fatty and server as a filler rather than a source of nutrition. That doesn't mean you shouldn't feed them, they make good snacks but thats about it.

Superworm care is fairly simple, they should always be in something they can be buried in, wheat bran works well. They will eat just about anything crickets will eat, just shove their food into the wheat bran (or whatever else they are buried in) and they will find it. You don't have to shove it in all the way, they will usually climb to the top to eat.

sources: I breed crickets and superworms at my job.

[pigslayer]

i keep my crickets in a steralite box,i cut out a section of the lid then hot glued screen over the cut out,the past two weeks ive bought 2 tubes of crickets and the 1st week i had 1 dead and this week none,i feed that cricket quencher jello looking stuff and carrots and ive had alot of luck