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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tgotty90" data-source="post: 122698" data-attributes="member: 8413"><p>Too be honest, it was my fault. I get my crickets by the thousands and my first time keeping them that way I didn't do the best job at cleaning up after them so it caused a major bacterial infection. It took me weeks of watching my Ts suffer and a lot of research before I could pinpoint exactly what happened. I thought it was air born at first but it only effected my adults. None of my juveniles or slings were infected. So after more research I found that if the prey items have fed on rotten vegetation or dead animals/insects then it can lead to bacteria in the prey.....Well I learned that keeping a thousand crickets in a single small container was a terrible idea. A lot died and the rest fed off the dead. That's why it only effected my adults though, because I fed them large crickets which are the ones infected, my slings and juveniles I keep small batches of pinhead and small crickets for them in separate containers. I definitely learned a tough lesson, you gotta maintenance your feeders too or their no good either.</p></blockquote><p></p>