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Kymura

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Just complaining,
By now, most know I don't care for crickets, I buy them for my T's who wont eat anything else but, at about a dozen at a time. Small kritter keeper, clean every other day, no stress no bother right....Except my G.porteri who normally eats two or three crickets at a feeding is in premolt now, so shes off her food, and they molted....now they are full adults....*chirp chirp chirp chirp* all day all night.....Did I mention I really don't care for crickets....
 

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We're lucky in the UK we can buy silent crickets :p
funny thing is, :rolleyes: I don't mind listening to them outside in the evening,
its sort of a peaceful sound then, but 24/7 in my room is a whole different thing.
Totally unfair that you get silent ones :(
 

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funny thing is, :rolleyes: I don't mind listening to them outside in the evening,
its sort of a peaceful sound then, but 24/7 in my room is a whole different thing.
Totally unfair that you get silent ones :(


I agree that they sound peaceful in the open yet can be annoying in the house. The silent ones are great although you do occasionally get an odd noisy one in a pack.
 

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Agreed. One of my favorite ways to sleep is out camping listening to the wilderness and the crickets chirp. In the house they drive me nuts, i take special pleasure finding the chirpers and feeding them to a hungry T :D
 

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It's odd isnt it, how we can enjoy it in one environment but hate it in another...Love to drift off to them if camping,
in my bedroom, I want to vacuum them all up out of their enclosure and put the vacuum outside.
 

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It's odd isnt it, how we can enjoy it in one environment but hate it in another...Love to drift off to them if camping,
in my bedroom, I want to vacuum them all up out of their enclosure and put the vacuum outside.
Lol! The chirping is actually the only thing I miss about them. It helped me fall asleep.
 

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Just complaining,
By now, most know I don't care for crickets, I buy them for my T's who wont eat anything else but, at about a dozen at a time. Small kritter keeper, clean every other day, no stress no bother right....Except my G.porteri who normally eats two or three crickets at a feeding is in premolt now, so shes off her food, and they molted....now they are full adults....*chirp chirp chirp chirp* all day all night.....Did I mention I really don't care for crickets....
Hahaha. Last time I had adult crickets, they chirped all night n kept me up. I dumped all of them (6) In my stirmi enclosure, and by morning no crickets, no noise....ahhhhh
Til next time
 

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Just complaining,
By now, most know I don't care for crickets, I buy them for my T's who wont eat anything else but, at about a dozen at a time. Small kritter keeper, clean every other day, no stress no bother right....Except my G.porteri who normally eats two or three crickets at a feeding is in premolt now, so shes off her food, and they molted....now they are full adults....*chirp chirp chirp chirp* all day all night.....Did I mention I really don't care for crickets....

Try banded crickets. They're a lot quieter. Not to mention less smelly, and they're tougher and last longer. I still have quite a few left from the batch I ordered nearly 3 weeks ago, and I only ordered 60 to begin with.

http://cricket-breeding.com/banded-crickets-gryllodes-sigillatus-come-to-the-u-s/
 

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I hate them.try having 18 of them get loose in your small prison cell-like room. I'm comfortable handling locusts and katydids, because you can get a good grip on em without possibly killing them in the process. I do like finding the chirpers and feeding them to my T. Our cat always helps us out with finding them. lol He's like a bug homing missile.
 

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I had crickets my whole life so the chirping became unnoticeable after years of having them. Friends would come stay the night and complain about them all the time lol
 

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Funny thing is @swimbait I love to hear them outside, but the acoustics in this new house are killer in the master bedroom, and not in a good way, literally sounds like I have a thousand in full out attract a mate mode. I cure it by keeping my headphones on when I'm in there.
 

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LOL don't you only have a dozen!?! I used to go through a 500 crickets a week, there was never a quite moment. The only time I would really ever notice it was when I'd wake up in the middle of the night, sound was intense. So glad dubia don't make noise, if they did I wouldn't have them
 

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My T seems to only enjoy the catching and killing of crickets. She'll ignore mealworms, superworms, and small dubia roaches, but man when I throw in a few crickets, the beautiful gun metal/black machine comes to life! As long as the crickets come in 4 per week, I can handle them. Since I purchased my reptile tongs back in december, handling most of the jumpy feeders has become much easier. I got 4 adult gut loaded crickets for 50 cents! My Black Aphonopelma female is happily dancing. I can see adding one more member to the family in time. :) Whoops! my bad they only cost 5 cents a cricket, which is a pretty good deal.
 
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You just reminded me the other reason I despise crickets, way too expensive.
Yep when you compare them to the others. Here at the LPS they're a dozen for a buck and overcount is free. and if you're sweet to the cute girl that runs the counter you usually get a few extra even thrown in for free. I came out with 18 one time lol.
 

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