Fffff crickets are creepy. So when I realized my kricket keeper was not holding in my crickets i spent a night hunting all the escapees and smashing them barehanded. Afterwords I came up with this enclosure that even creepy crickets cant escape from
I took a 5 1/2 gallon zilla tank with the sliding screen lid,
http://www.amazon.com/Zilla-28055-2-Gallon-Critter-16-Inch/dp/B00176C9PA
(it was cheaper at the petstore)
and used tape to cover the little gaps at the top of the cage that are there when the lid is fully inserted (for putting water bottles or something?)
then i took a cheese cloth and hot glued around the top of the lid, not on the screen, but right on the black outside the screen. The area where the tank clips onto the lid, i hotglued where the screen and black lid met.
i put a few small pieces of cardboard at the bottom so they had a place to hide. I didnt want to encourage them jumping onto the screen, so i kept the hiding spots extremely low to the ground. I used the black tunnels from the cricket keeper for two of the hiding spots, then when its feeding time i carefully put the kricket keeper into the tank and slide the tube into the keeper, shake out a few crickets, and put the tunnel back. Im sure simular results could be done with a paper towel roll or something
anyway ive been monitoring this contraption in the bathtub the past few days and non have gotten out. I can finally breath a sigh of relief!
I took a 5 1/2 gallon zilla tank with the sliding screen lid,
http://www.amazon.com/Zilla-28055-2-Gallon-Critter-16-Inch/dp/B00176C9PA
(it was cheaper at the petstore)
and used tape to cover the little gaps at the top of the cage that are there when the lid is fully inserted (for putting water bottles or something?)
then i took a cheese cloth and hot glued around the top of the lid, not on the screen, but right on the black outside the screen. The area where the tank clips onto the lid, i hotglued where the screen and black lid met.
i put a few small pieces of cardboard at the bottom so they had a place to hide. I didnt want to encourage them jumping onto the screen, so i kept the hiding spots extremely low to the ground. I used the black tunnels from the cricket keeper for two of the hiding spots, then when its feeding time i carefully put the kricket keeper into the tank and slide the tube into the keeper, shake out a few crickets, and put the tunnel back. Im sure simular results could be done with a paper towel roll or something
anyway ive been monitoring this contraption in the bathtub the past few days and non have gotten out. I can finally breath a sigh of relief!
