Quote Originally Posted by lmartelli77 View Post
I use a nice tall tub so there is no way they can get out. I know they can't climb smooth surfaces, but every once in a while one will make it halfway up a side. My tub is roughly 18"L x 12"W x 18"T. I started with a mixed colony of 200 and now I have at least 500 even though I feed them off almost every day. Keep them nice and warm and they will breed faster for you. I use a 11x11 Ultratherm heat pad from ReptileBasics http://www.reptilebasics.com/ultrath...th-11-x11.html on full power. The inside bottom of the warm side of the tub get up to 92-95 degrees with an ambient around 83-85.
exactly this.

I keep mine in a tall 64quart container. Their egg crates stand on end stacked so the frass (poop) falls to the bottom. I've got some heat tape on it and it keeps the hotspot around 96 degrees and gives them a gradient. They breed like mad. I think i started off with 400 in February. Theres a few thousand in there now. They can also take a ridiculously high population density. Probably 5x what i have in there now and they'd be fine.