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Questions tagged [crickets]

Refers to chirping insects usually used as feed for larger pets, such as lizards and frogs.

Refers to chirping insects usually used as feed for larger pets, such as lizards and frogs. Relevant topics may include keeping crickets as pets, how to maintain feeder crickets, discussion on proper ways to present crickets, and types of crickets to select.

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How do I keep my supply of feeder crickets from keeping me awake at night?

In college, I had a pet lizard that ate crickets. However, the dorm room was quite small, and keeping crickets on hand proved problematic, as their chirping at night was annoying, and interfered with my sleep. Is there something I could do to keep…
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How do I euthanise crickets?

I have some excess feeder crickets that I no longer have a use for. What is the most humane way to get rid of them?
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Will crickets lay barren eggs?

I have crickets that are laying eggs in a dirt bin. I've noticed tiny eggs that look like super small grains of semi-translucent rice. I'm curious, is it possible that a female cricket might lay barren eggs (non-fertilized)? Some animals I know will…
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How can I provide supplements to an ocelot gecko who won't eat dusted crickets?

Our ocelot gecko had some problem with a dusted cricket when he was very young (he vomited it for some reason) and since then he won't even look at crickets that have been dusted with calcium and vitamins. We are trying to compensate by giving him…
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How do I gut load a cricket

Someone told me that I should gut load my crickets before I feed them to my lizard. What is gut loading, why should I do it, and how do I gut load my feeder crickets?
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Is it safe to feed my pet lizard a molting cricket?

I have bought a number of feeder crickets, several of which are in stages of molting. Is it safe to feed a cricket mid-molting to a pet lizard? Should I discard the molted husk left behind, or is it safe to try and feed it to my lizard as well?
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My dog ate a cricket, is that bad?

My dog is a cross between labrador and retriever and I estimate he weighs around 40 kgs and he's 1 year and 9 months old. My dog loves chasing crickets, especially because they jump, and in end, he eats them. He's only done this a few times, but…
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It's been 3 months and my crickets still won't breed, lay eggs, or chirp

I've been trying to breed crickets for 3 months, but my crickets won't breed, won't lay eggs and won't chirp. I have a bed of soil (that I moisten daily) covered with a secure screen to keep adults from eating their eggs. I feed them Fluker's orange…
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The crickets I want to feed my gecko escaped, what to do?

So I bought "ca. 40 crickets medium size" and a cricket home (small box out of plastics). While moving the crickets from one box into the other, some braver than me escaped. Now I find them one by one, but I have no clue, how much exactly escaped.…
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