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Chamcham505
at Sun Mar 12 10:55:04 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Chamcham505 ]
Hi there,
Well...You may not be doing ANYTHING wrong, but crickets seem to have an extremely high mortality rate. They have perfected the art of dying in large numbers (Lol...massacre!) 
*One reason is because of food. Fruits and vegetables(Strawberries in particular) give off toxins after they have been inside a cricket keeper too long, and began to spoil. Of course, the crickets still consume the rotting matter- and die. *Another reason is humidity. Too high humidity tends to increase the chance of bacterial growth or any sort of sickness.
*And last, but certainly not least, is other dead crickets. The cricket corpes began to decay, the other crickets feed on them, they become ill, and vuala! You basically have started the inevideble chain of sickness and death. They began to die in large numbers. So, I really would try to remove all the dead crickets possible (It will reduce the smell- that's a plus!) and possibly lessen the chance of your cricket colony dying off. No rush though.
This is just what I have personally experienced from keeping crickets, I may be totally wrong. 
Michele
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- Cricket tips wanted - anafranil, Sun Mar 12 06:09:25 2006
 RE: Cricket tips wanted - Chamcham505, Sun Mar 12 10:55:04 2006
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