Ghann's crickets

[Mike Fisher]

I got my first order from Ghann's. Nice crickets! I really like these banded crickets. They jump like crazy though. Hard to catch when they get loose. Their bodies are more translucent, so if they eat carrot, they turn orange. They are very pretty and they look like electronic resistors with the color bands.

 

[Rottsko]

very happy w/ the banded crickets and ghann's. top notch products and customer service.

 

[deathdealer91]

That where i get mine also. i love them. they are always nice and the crickets are always alive.

 

[djfishygillz]

Get on the breeder program and you can save tons of money they have a 5,000 order minimum though.

 

[TheHoff93]

I get all of my crickets from Ghann's. They always arrive early and have very minimal DOAs (maybe 1 out of 100) They live much longer than the house crickets from petsmart/petco (and cheaper too), they are quitter, and not as smelly. ITS A WIN WIN WIN lol

 

[Mike Fisher]

Get on the breeder program and you can save tons of money they have a 5,000 order minimum though.

Not quite there just yet. At least until eggs hatch....

 

[dacrazycanadian]

Get on the breeder program and you can save tons of money they have a 5,000 order minimum though.

What does it take to be on that program? What if you're not a licensed breeder yet or have a business ID?

 

[biffle]

my $.02

I just tried a batch of the banded crickets. They have their good and bad points...

Bad..
1. Their chirp is more like an alarm clock buzzer. I hate it!
2. They don't get very big.
3. They can't be cup fed... they jump too high.
4. They are not easy to hand feed. The have strong legs that tend to get out of your hand.
5. They have very soft bodies. this make removing the males wings difficult but still possible.

Good.
1. They handle the heat much better than the house crickets
2. Little to no die off under the same conditions that I was losing almost 50% of house crickets.
3. super hungry.. they gut load easily
4. super active. Chams are attracted to them.

I think I will order them again but continue to a get few of the extra-large house crickets for my bigger guys.

Jason

 

[Mike Fisher]

If you raise them to adulthood they get huge. I haven't done it, but I got a few adults in my last box by accident. They were just as bit if not bigger than the acheta domestica.

And I noticed that they don't stink like acheta domestica either.

 

[bobcochran]

The archeta domestica only start stinking when they die, if I get healthy younger crickets they don't stink at all. When I get adults they start to die off in 2 weeks (old age) and really start stinking it up. Do the zebra striped crickets live longer than ~8 weeks?

 

[CarlC]

I had problems with the long antennae that the banded crickets have when feeding small babies. The antennae always seemed to be sticking out of their mouths and the babies would rub their jaw on a branch to get the antennae in their mouth. Once going back to Acheta domestica the babies ate with rubbing.

Carl

 

[Mike Fisher]

I had problems with the long antennae that the banded crickets have when feeding small babies.

Good to know. One thing I hate about them...They seems to be a lot smarter than house crickets. They escape easier and will go out of their way to jump in the opposite direction than you want them to go. Once they are loose, very hard to catch.

 

[Mike Fisher]

Do the zebra striped crickets live longer than ~8 weeks?

I haven't raised any from eggs, so I don't know. I should have used the few adults that came in one shipment for breeding but could not resist feeding them off to my larger chams.