My Crickets Don’t Die

[Andrew1283]

I buy 50 crickets weekly and keep them in a clean black bucket under my grasshopper enclosures with no lid. The bucket is new so the sides are smooth. They can’t climb or jump out. And it’s really dark under there. I just toss them in the bucket and give them food. They have no cardboard or hiding places.

I mix Arcadia Dragon Fuel and Repashy Bug Burger 50/50. Then I boil water and mix 1 part powder with 2 parts hot water and stir to a gel. I set it aside to cool in a Tupperware container and feed it in chunks to the crickets.

AND THEY DONT DIE

I hesitated to post this until I had a few rounds of crickets eating and fed off to my chams. In Bug Burger alone or anything else I fed, I expected to lose 50% or more of my crickets per week. Now with this mix I’m shocked to see 1 or 2 of the bunch dead. Lots and lots of poop so they’re eating well.

Can someone else try this and back me up?

 

[Andrew1283]

And just so you know, I’ve been feeding crickets because I’m trying to breed my hoppers.

 

[ChamelaChameleon]

And just so you know, I’ve been feeding crickets because I’m trying to breed my hoppers.

I must be the cricket killer! They always die, ugh! I feed crickets and Dubia as well - to keep a varied diet. Dubias never die!

 

[ChamelaChameleon]

I buy 50 crickets weekly and keep them in a clean black bucket under my grasshopper enclosures with no lid. The bucket is new so the sides are smooth. They can’t climb or jump out. And it’s really dark under there. I just toss them in the bucket and give them food. They have no cardboard or hiding places.

I mix Arcadia Dragon Fuel and Repashy Bug Burger 50/50. Then I boil water and mix 1 part powder with 2 parts hot water and stir to a gel. I set it aside to cool in a Tupperware container and feed it in chunks to the crickets.

AND THEY DONT DIE

I hesitated to post this until I had a few rounds of crickets eating and fed off to my chams. In Bug Burger alone or anything else I fed, I expected to lose 50% or more of my crickets per week. Now with this mix I’m shocked to see 1 or 2 of the bunch dead. Lots and lots of poop so they’re eating well.

Can someone else try this and back me up?

Do you give them water?

 

[yungzerk]

I buy 50 crickets weekly and keep them in a clean black bucket under my grasshopper enclosures with no lid. The bucket is new so the sides are smooth. They can’t climb or jump out. And it’s really dark under there. I just toss them in the bucket and give them food. They have no cardboard or hiding places.

I mix Arcadia Dragon Fuel and Repashy Bug Burger 50/50. Then I boil water and mix 1 part powder with 2 parts hot water and stir to a gel. I set it aside to cool in a Tupperware container and feed it in chunks to the crickets.

AND THEY DONT DIE

I hesitated to post this until I had a few rounds of crickets eating and fed off to my chams. In Bug Burger alone or anything else I fed, I expected to lose 50% or more of my crickets per week. Now with this mix I’m shocked to see 1 or 2 of the bunch dead. Lots and lots of poop so they’re eating well.

Can someone else try this and back me up?

i don’t use the arcadia blend, but i have a colony of 1000 crickets in a large plastic tub and i feed them that same repashy blend, but with fresh greens and they’re cohabited with buffalo beetles and dermisted larvae to help clean mold and stuff, but i’ve had the colony about two weeks now and i wanna say i’ve only found like 5 dead crickets

 

[Andrew1283]

Do you give them water?

Nope the water in the gel is their water!

 

[Andrew1283]

i don’t use the arcadia blend, but i have a colony of 1000 crickets in a large plastic tub and i feed them that same repashy blend, but with fresh greens and they’re cohabited with buffalo beetles and dermisted larvae to help clean mold and stuff, but i’ve had the colony about two weeks now and i wanna say i’ve only found like 5 dead crickets

Maybe the beetles and larvae are cleaning up the dead!

 

[janjan20]

Are they banded crickets or just regular? When I fed crickets I always had longevity with the banded.

 

[Andrew1283]

Just regular from Petsmart

 

[janjan20]

Now that is Guinness book of world record worthy!!

 

[Andrew1283]

The only downside is Arcadia Dragon fuel is $20.00 a bag and Repashy Bug Burger is $12.00 for the two bottles you need for the 50/50 mix. So you’re in about $35.00 with tax. I would estimate that’s enough food to feed 1,000 crickets. Crickets are 13 cents each so that’s $130.00 worth of crickets. If you spend $35.00 you save pretty much all of them. And consider you would still spend money feeding them with other stuff, which costs money too, and they’re dying…

 

[janjan20]

When you break it down like that, what a deal lol! Sounds like you are on to something…

 

[ChamelaChameleon]

The sound of 1000 crickets scare me!

 

[Beman]

Exactly how I mix except I use the insect fuel with the bug burger.

 

[yungzerk]

Maybe the beetles and larvae are cleaning up the dead!

they definitely help a ton, i’m sure there’s been more that have died but my colonies only smell like weird egg cartons instead of that horrible typical cricket smell, if you ever have a large colony of roaches or insects i recommend them greatly!

 

[Andrew1283]

The sound of 1000 crickets scare me!

All of my chameleons are adults on the verge of obesity so I don’t need too many crickets! When babies are around it’s like a conveyor belt of feeders. Not so much anymore.

 

[Andrew1283]

Exactly how I mix except I use the insect fuel with the bug burger.

I compared the ingredients in both. Dragon fuel is insect fuel on steroids. Same ingredients as insect fuel but then adds way more stuff.

 

[GrannyK]

I buy 50 crickets weekly and keep them in a clean black bucket under my grasshopper enclosures with no lid. The bucket is new so the sides are smooth. They can’t climb or jump out. And it’s really dark under there. I just toss them in the bucket and give them food. They have no cardboard or hiding places.

I mix Arcadia Dragon Fuel and Repashy Bug Burger 50/50. Then I boil water and mix 1 part powder with 2 parts hot water and stir to a gel. I set it aside to cool in a Tupperware container and feed it in chunks to the crickets.

AND THEY DONT DIE

I hesitated to post this until I had a few rounds of crickets eating and fed off to my chams. In Bug Burger alone or anything else I fed, I expected to lose 50% or more of my crickets per week. Now with this mix I’m shocked to see 1 or 2 of the bunch dead. Lots and lots of poop so they’re eating well.

Can someone else try this and back me up?

Can I feed it to my dubia too? I may try it. My guys have been liking crickets and I feel like I’m buying them every other day at out pet shop.

 

[Andrew1283]

Can I feed it to my dubia too? I may try it. My guys have been liking crickets and I feel like I’m buying them every other day at out pet shop.

I don’t see why this couldn’t be fed to dubia. Give it a try

 

[elizaann2]

What kind of bucket to you use? I’ll buy the stuff tomorow to check it out as well.