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Go big or go home 1000 Lol no start with 250 or 500how many buffalo beetles do you think I should get. I'm currently getting 250 1/2" crickets at a time in the 80 quart tote.
You don’t need any bedding just egg crates will do.do they need any bedding material? Or just keep them in bare tote with only the egg crates in it for the crickets?
If I went the CHE route, would I heat 24/7 or just 12 hours a day? They would drop down to the mid 60's (64-66) overnight if I didn't keep the heater on all the time.
Add these with your crickets you won’t regret it. Helps control the smell and be carful the beetles fly in warm conditions. I’ve found a few in my laundry
https://www.rainbowmealworms.net/cleaner-crew/
Yeah I the morning wood makes me giggle everytime, I may be an adult but I have a maturity level of a 5 years oldMeat Pie -- Repashy is fully trolling me with these names.
Adding the beetles can help with your problem but I honesty would switch to roaches. They don’t smell and not so noisy, I can hear them sometimes running around in the binInstead of making another thread hope its ok to join in here for some suggestions. I dont have any Buffalo Beetles.. How many are needed to keep 500 crickets in check. Looking at these most say for Dubia's.. Are these good for crickets as well?.
What kind of die off are you guys seeing.. My biggest issue is keeping crickets from dying. I use a 30g trash can with a 10w heater stuck to the outside, 1 60w daylight bulb on for 12hrs, CA water crystals and bug burger. At about 3 weeks I get heavy die off. Once this starts the stench is bad. I clean my bin every week. I get 500 crickets every month. I lose half to die off. If I had another options instead of crickets id use them. These are nasty ..
Not sure if its just the banded crickets that I'm getting from Josh's Frogs. But I don't hear them making any noise at all.
I guess I'm happy that Peri is still eating juvenile crickets.The bandeds are more noisy at night and when they're full grown they're noisy buggers (see what I did there) -- I had to handle crickets for a full year before Mona would take roaches. All good things must wait!
What are the downsides if I move the cricket bin into my downstairs without a heating element? Does the growth rate just slow down, or do they stop eating/gut loading also?