Cricket breeding set up.

[Vincentuanluu]

Hello, after my first attempt failed, decided to try using a terrarium in effort to breed them.
I picked 50 females and 21 males ranging from medium to large size.
I believe they are banded crickets because of their colour and pattern, different from ones I buy from petsmart which are brown crickets.

Setted up two laying bins.

My questions are,
when do I remove laying bins ?
What temperature should tank be and temperature for incubator?
How long till they hatch ?
Do I leave heat lamp on 24hours?
Is my set up right?
How would the hatchling come up from dirt?

 

[guanagator]

Good luck, my prior attempt at this ended in stinky failure hope you have better results. Will be watching to to hopefully see where I went wrong!

 

[Chameleon Mike]

when do I remove laying bins ?
What temperature should tank be and temperature for incubator?
How long till they hatch ?
Do I leave heat lamp on 24hours?
Is my set up right?
How would the hatchling come up from dirt?

First only adult crickets will mate so medium crickets are not going to be any good to you. There is alot of information on You Tube and I'm sure people are going to have opinions on here but this is what worked for me. Keep you laying bins in for 7 - 10 days. Moisten the dirt, rather soak it before you put it in. Then every day spray the top of the dirt with water to keep it moist. The tank should be around 90 degrees. It will take 10 - 14 days for them to hatch (typically). Leave the heat lamp on for 24/7. It looks like your setup isn't bad. The laying bins are high but I see you have something they can climb on which is good. Is that a rock or loaf of bread in there? Get rid of it. They would benifit more from more milk cartons. The hatchling will dig through the dirt to get out.

Keep us posted. I'd like to see your progress.

 

[Vincentuanluu]

First only adult crickets will mate so medium crickets are not going to be any good to you. There is alot of information on You Tube and I'm sure people are going to have opinions on here but this is what worked for me. Keep you laying bins in for 7 - 10 days. Moisten the dirt, rather soak it before you put it in. Then every day spray the top of the dirt with water to keep it moist. The tank should be around 90 degrees. It will take 10 - 14 days for them to hatch (typically). Leave the heat lamp on for 24/7. It looks like your setup isn't bad. The laying bins are high but I see you have something they can climb on which is good. Is that a rock or loaf of bread in there? Get rid of it. They would benifit more from more milk cartons. The hatchling will dig through the dirt to get out.

Keep us posted. I'd like to see your progress.

Thanks, it's a magnet rock that I can take the outside cover out for crickets to hide lol added it for looks but I agree it's useless. Yeah I brought "large" crickets but it had all size mixed.. So I just put some medium since there wasn't enough adults in 100 batch.

Will keep you update with pictures after couple days for results.

I used cricket keeper bins for the "laying bin" might change it so its easier for them maybe?