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Cricket keeper, will they escape from this?
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<blockquote data-quote="MBullock" data-source="post: 217359" data-attributes="member: 33994"><p>Do not use carrots or fruit to hydrate crickets.</p><p> Keep them bone dry, give them dry foods only, and for hydration, use cricket gel or beetle jelly instead.</p><p> If you give crickets too much water they develop diarrhea and their feces will stick to things and foul the enclosure up. But if you give them less moisture, their feces are drier like pellets and are much less odorous.</p><p> </p><p>The best way to keep crickets IMO is with a false bottom made of screen mesh, with a tray below to collect fecal matter and bits of food that drop. the only time you want substrate is if you intend to breed them- a shallow delicup filled with moist sand the crickets can easily walk onto will make breeding easy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MBullock, post: 217359, member: 33994"] Do not use carrots or fruit to hydrate crickets. Keep them bone dry, give them dry foods only, and for hydration, use cricket gel or beetle jelly instead. If you give crickets too much water they develop diarrhea and their feces will stick to things and foul the enclosure up. But if you give them less moisture, their feces are drier like pellets and are much less odorous. The best way to keep crickets IMO is with a false bottom made of screen mesh, with a tray below to collect fecal matter and bits of food that drop. the only time you want substrate is if you intend to breed them- a shallow delicup filled with moist sand the crickets can easily walk onto will make breeding easy [/QUOTE]
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