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06-05-2004, 04:56 PM | #1 |
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How to breed cricket to feed your Aro
Hi Guys,
As you guys are aware that the cost of feeder is on the rise and I would like share with everyone how to breed cricket at home to keep this hobby affordable. What you need to breed cricket at home: 1) A plastic tank with cover minimum size 13" x 8" (the bigger the tank the better) 2) Burn soil $2 per pack, you can buy them from any nursery (share the pack of soil with a few friends) 3) A small dish for water (put a few pieces of pebble inside so that the baby cricket don't drown) 4) Cardboard Eggs holder and old newspaper 5) Small fish pellet (100g bottle about $6 can last about 6 months) 6) Distilled water (Guardian sell 1.5 litre for 70 cents) Once you have everything in place, pour burn soil into tank (about 1/2 inch ) and sprinkle abit of distilled water onto the soil so that it is damp. Cut cardboard egg holder into half and place it in the tank, add a few pieces of old newspaper to provide shelter for the cricket. Than put the small dish(with a few pieces pebble) filled with distilled water into the tank. Buy 2 boxes of cricket and put them in the tank. That is all...... Feed cricket daily with fish pellet and top-up water when it is dry. Sprinkle distilled water on the burn soil twice a week so that the soil is soft enough for the female cricket to lay their eggs. It takes about 2 weeks before you can see baby cricket crawling around and about 2 to 3 weeks before the babies mature. Avoid using the cricket from this tank to feed your Aro for the time being as you want them to multiple. I can assure you that in no time you will have constant supply of cricket to feed your Aro. Please note, the noise level created by the cricket at night are pretty loud (mating mah) so try to place your cricket tank nearer to the kitchen away from the bedroom. Good Luck. Last edited by ST1100; 08-11-2015 at 02:09 AM. |
06-05-2004, 05:07 PM | #2 |
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Just a sharing. Dun forget to feed you cricks with carrots. Yosh ...
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06-05-2004, 05:34 PM | #3 | |
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When you buy a box of cricket to feed your Aro, after a few days.... you will notice that some of the cricket have died, with friut flies flying around and there is this rotten smell coming out of the box. That is because the living condition for them in a box is only temporary. With a proper set up, the cricket will last longer and multiple faster. Moreover the only smell coming out of cricket tank is the smell of burn soil. So the setup for your cricket tank is a one off kind of thing, hardly any maintenance needed thereafter. Oh ya....remember to change the old newspaper when it is dirty. Have fun |
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06-05-2004, 06:37 PM | #4 | |
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Nice Try!
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Bro One of the few good one I heard in this forum. LOL Cheers J. Last edited by jayde; 06-05-2004 at 06:41 PM. Reason: non |
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06-05-2004, 10:43 PM | #5 |
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Based on your info, buying a box of crickets should be able to start the breeding process and in less than a month, fresh supply of cricket. question:
1. How long will the first batch of cricket lives? 2. How many young crickets can be produced in a month? 3. In that process, in order to substain itself by reproducing, how many cricket can you feed per day so as not to endanger the self reproducing cycle? With the above info, can calculate whether the effort is worth it on a long term basis. I would like to try as I believe it is worth the effort to gain some experience out of it. Thank you for sharing the info. |
06-05-2004, 11:03 PM | #6 | |
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bro can explain what is burn soil, want to try to breed, |
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07-05-2004, 02:10 AM | #7 | |
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Life span of a cricket
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Your 1st batch of cricket will last a year if you don't feed them to your Aro. Well the life span of a cricket is about a year and each female cricket can lay between 500-2000 eggs within their life span so the number of Nymph (baby cricket) produce by each female cricket works out to be 50-200 eggs per month. But please bear in mind that some of the baby cricket will die i.e. drown in the dish of water. So a box of cricket with 30 matured adult (15 male and 15 female) should produced around 1000 crickets a month. Female crickets can be identified by it long structure (coming of the tail like a needle) called Ovipositor, which they use to plant into the soil to lay eggs. After keeping your crickets in the recommended set up tank for a few days, you will notice that most of the female crickets will start to plant thier Ovipositor into the soil to lay eggs. And within a week or so, you will find little crickets around the size of 3mm crawling around tank. Not to worry that your baby crickets will not crawl out of the tank cosz as long as they have food, water, soil and cardboard eggs' holder to hide. They will not leave their habitat. Male cricket sings for 2 reasons....to call out to female crickets who are searching for male crickets to mate and to signal to other male to stay out of the way. Crickets are said to foretell good luck. Their songs are said to bring blessing to all that are lucky enough to hear them. Last edited by ST1100; 07-05-2004 at 02:36 AM. |
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07-05-2004, 02:34 AM | #8 | |
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07-05-2004, 02:58 AM | #9 | |
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How much food to feed the cricket
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07-05-2004, 11:54 AM | #10 |
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Bro...
I've bred crickets before and errmmm... yah neighbours compained. Bred them in a two feet tank used almost the same method you mentioned. One thing different is that I do not place water dish instead I wet some toilet paper and place it in every few days I wet it again. Works pretty well. Anyway I think I had easily a thousand or more crickets after a period of 3-4 months. Simply amazing. Oh and the soil will start to stink like shit. I had problems with changing the soil and not throwing away the baby crickets as well... too many to catch them all also... end up always sacrificing at least 50% of my brood. Also do you have problems with mites infesting your crickets? It occurred slightly after I fed them with apples. Subsequently mites appeared whenever I over fed the crickets. No big deal but simply gross to see so many of them. Anyway I dun breed them as I no longer need them. But for the rest of you... from experience, the noise of the crickets can be pretty ermmm...fantastic lah. A thousand crickets for me at that time can't remember how many decibels. Good luck. Anyone wanna know how to breed mealworms as well? Hahaha... |
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