Psychobunny
Avid Member
Lots of ppl complaining about crick bin stink!!
I know the feeling
Most common reasons 4 bin stink R;
A) poor ventilation.
Use a oversize plastic tub if you are keeping hundreds of cricks and cut out
the lid and hot glue a big piece of screen on it.
You need good ventilation and avoid too much heat.
B) dead crickets.
Dead crick STINK and release gas as they decompose, which is made even
worse when the deceased gets nibbled on!!!
Make sure to check your bin every day for gonners, dead'uns, corpus stelecti, past aways, kicked the buckets, cold meats, croakers, deceased, and / or dead cricks
C) Filth.
Clean the bloody bin!! change those nasty poop crusted egg cartons!!!
D) Feeding.
Have you ever heard; 'you are what you eat?", well, I don't know if that's true, but I do know you POOP what you eat!!
If you feed your cricks mostly high moisture food; bug burger, veggies and fruits, and little or no dry food, like Cricket Crack, then, guess what!?
you will have wet stinky poop everywhere!!
Unless you want to completely clean; that is, change the egg cartons, remove the cricks and scrub the tub with hot soapy water, about every other day (depending on how many of these degusting little creatures you have in there) then you NEED to balance the wet food with the dry in equal amounts. If your cricks eat only the dry stuff when given the choice, cut back, etc. Their diet should be balanced.
Think of it this way; supposing YOU ate nothing but kale, mustard greens, apples and Bug Burger for a few weeks!!??
Yep, that's what will happen alright, only difference is, you can flush!!
E) Parasitic Disease.
Nothing is more foul, loathsome, rude, and plain old fu**ed up then some moron sending you 1500 cricks with some horrible, deadly parasite!!!
If you notice a major DIE-OFF overnight, or most are dead in shipment, and it's only been 75F, and there is no other reason for it, DESTROY everything!! the dead and live cricks, the box and packing, the Supplier, the Supplier's children!! (joke there!!ha!!).
If you had them in your bin, just clean really well with hot, soapy water with a little bleach (the bin I mean, NOT the cricks!!)
Look, I don't like crickets any more then you do, but nearly ALL pet reptiles LOVE them, and they are excellent gut-load vehicles because they will eat, and sometimes pig-out, on anything!!
So, lets all just learn to live with these nasty little buggers without the stench!!
L8er
I know the feeling
Most common reasons 4 bin stink R;
A) poor ventilation.
Use a oversize plastic tub if you are keeping hundreds of cricks and cut out
the lid and hot glue a big piece of screen on it.
You need good ventilation and avoid too much heat.
B) dead crickets.
Dead crick STINK and release gas as they decompose, which is made even
worse when the deceased gets nibbled on!!!
Make sure to check your bin every day for gonners, dead'uns, corpus stelecti, past aways, kicked the buckets, cold meats, croakers, deceased, and / or dead cricks
C) Filth.
Clean the bloody bin!! change those nasty poop crusted egg cartons!!!
D) Feeding.
Have you ever heard; 'you are what you eat?", well, I don't know if that's true, but I do know you POOP what you eat!!
If you feed your cricks mostly high moisture food; bug burger, veggies and fruits, and little or no dry food, like Cricket Crack, then, guess what!?
you will have wet stinky poop everywhere!!
Unless you want to completely clean; that is, change the egg cartons, remove the cricks and scrub the tub with hot soapy water, about every other day (depending on how many of these degusting little creatures you have in there) then you NEED to balance the wet food with the dry in equal amounts. If your cricks eat only the dry stuff when given the choice, cut back, etc. Their diet should be balanced.
Think of it this way; supposing YOU ate nothing but kale, mustard greens, apples and Bug Burger for a few weeks!!??
Yep, that's what will happen alright, only difference is, you can flush!!
E) Parasitic Disease.
Nothing is more foul, loathsome, rude, and plain old fu**ed up then some moron sending you 1500 cricks with some horrible, deadly parasite!!!
If you notice a major DIE-OFF overnight, or most are dead in shipment, and it's only been 75F, and there is no other reason for it, DESTROY everything!! the dead and live cricks, the box and packing, the Supplier, the Supplier's children!! (joke there!!ha!!).
If you had them in your bin, just clean really well with hot, soapy water with a little bleach (the bin I mean, NOT the cricks!!)
Look, I don't like crickets any more then you do, but nearly ALL pet reptiles LOVE them, and they are excellent gut-load vehicles because they will eat, and sometimes pig-out, on anything!!
So, lets all just learn to live with these nasty little buggers without the stench!!
L8er
