Crickets

[Shay weber]

do you crickets you order live longer than store bought crickets beacuse I got store bought crickets 2 days later all dead

 

[Link]

Using the ones I get from the store die quickly too. But this is a different kind of there that is Hardy and live longer I'll try to figure it out the name

 

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I think they're banded crickets. I'm sure someone else will no more than me

 

[Furciferocious]

I always had mixed results with crickets. Some batches would be great, some would all die. This happpened with mail order and store bought. I never did figure out why. One theory I have is that they prefer to be at 85-90 deg but I always kept them in the mid-70's. I switched to roaches which are much better in all respects. People, including me, tend to think of roaches as really gross but that is not the case, especially after cleaning up a few cricket colony collapses.

 

[Remkon]

I hated crickets... Always had house crickets from the store and had a lot of die off most of the time.

Now I found a webshop that sells Jamaican field crickets... They are great! Much slower than other crickets, they don't hop as much, they haven't made a sound yet and they have more meat on them too.
Since my cham doesn't eat dubia very well this was a good find for me.

 

[Link]

I hated crickets... Always had house crickets from the store and had a lot of die off most of the time.

Now I found a webshop that sells Jamaican field crickets... They are great! Much slower than other crickets, they don't hop as much, they haven't made a sound yet and they have more meat on them too.
Since my cham doesn't eat dubia very well this was a good find for me.

Do the Jamaican come in large sizes? If they do I'll have to check them out

 

[Remkon]

Do the Jamaican come in large sizes? If they do I'll have to check them out

They are similar in size as the housecricket but I do think they are a bit wider (fatter).

 

[ChamDE86]

A lot of members on here switched to the banded crickets. They are much more hardier and active than the brown crickets. I purchased 100 about a month ago and have had very little die-off. Heck, a few months ago they mistakenly delivered my package to another house and I wasn't able to get to them for the entire week. I was 100% positive that they were all dead, but low and behold, only a handful of them didn't make it. An overwhelming smell of ammonia from the feces and lack of air circulation was also present, but they made it through just fine. I actually keep them in the mid 70's and feed them 2-3 times a week. No issues with mass die-offs at all.

 

[Remkon]

A lot of members on here switched to the banded crickets. They are much more hardier and active than the brown crickets. I purchased 100 about a month ago and have had very little die-off. Heck, a few months ago they mistakenly delivered my package to another house and I wasn't able to get to them for the entire week. I was 100% positive that they were all dead, but low and behold, only a handful of them didn't make it. An overwhelming smell of ammonia from the feces and lack of air circulation was also present, but they made it through just fine. I actually keep them in the mid 70's and feed them 2-3 times a week. No issues with mass die-offs at all.

I've seen the banded too but on the webshop it sais banded crickets make more noise than other crickets...
I hate cricket noise, I'm sticking with my Jamaican field crickets.... at least when they start to make a noise they be jammin.

 

[ChamDE86]

I keep the crickets in a separate room, so the noise is a non-issue for me. The pros definitely outweigh the cons when comparing to brown crickets though!

 

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The banded are really noizy. But all my charms are in the basement. So it doesn't bother me much