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FEEDING


Crickets eat a huge vareity of food such as apples, oranges, bananas, grapes, pears, melon etc. as well as lettuce and cucumber. However i find that they especially like prepacked salad which i get from my local tesco which is a mixture of Frisee, Radicchio and lambs lettuce. It isnt the cheapest, £1.29/200g but they love it. I also get alot of apples and mini-gem lettuce too.
Another food they like is premixed food specially for crickets, commonly known as "gut-load" Many people only feed the crickets they intend to feed to their pet (lizard,amphibian,snake or whatever) with gut-load 2 days before however the way i think is that if i want my crickets to breed, i need them to be healthy so i always have a fresh tub of it in the tank.


As you may have noticed from my SETUP page I use small plastic plant pot saucers. These can be bought from your local garden centre for about 39p each. They are perfect for crickets because they are not too deep, so the crickets can climb into them to eat, theyre cheap and last of all they clean really easily. (Left pic)
Another benefit is that if you have alot of smaller baby crickets in your tank you can easily cut away at the side of the saucer allowing full access.(Right pic)
There is also another great use for the saucers, which can be seen in the BREEDING section.


As for the water source. As mentioned in the SETUP section, I used to use cotton wool soaked in water in a saucer, However after 2 or 3 days the water and cotton wool would become smelly and started attracting tiny black flies which also layed their eggs in the cotton wool. Killing some of my first attempts at breeding. I still use a similar method however i use a much smaller and shallower dish now. This means that every day or 2 i have to change it.
Other people preferr to use something else in their water, Some use marbles, others pebbles. I havent yet tried using this method but will do so soon. Ill update this page when i see how it goes.