If you order large/adult crickets, you've got about 2 weeks at best before they start dying off. Less, if they've been sitting around where you bought them from for any length of time.



And as I said earlier, over crowding will take it's toll as well.

Not sure exactly how many crickets can be kept in a 50 gallon rubbermaid container, but I can tell you that 6500 is over the limit.



From now on we'll be keeping no more than 3000 in one container that size.



( Anybody out there got a formula for how many crickets can be kept per gallon of space? )







D.A.

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• What are these, and are they safe for B.D.s to eat? - DraconisAntiquus, Fri Oct 24 16:15:58 2003
• RE: What are these, and are they safe for B.D.s to eat? - LdyPayne, Fri Oct 24 16:48:04 2003
• ldypayne is right............ - reiko, Fri Oct 24 17:26:21 2003
• Thanks Ldypayne, Reiko... - DraconisAntiquus, Fri Oct 24 17:48:52 2003
• Not to try and burst any bubbles on this... - lkt, Fri Oct 24 18:44:21 2003
• I suspect what killed most of the crickets we lost... - DraconisAntiquus, Fri Oct 24 18:59:49 2003
• That made me laugh! n/p - CheriS, Fri Oct 24 20:25:06 2003
• I never really know...now that I think about it I ... - lkt, Fri Oct 24 23:45:14 2003
• RE: I never really know...now that I think about it I ... - DraconisAntiquus, Sat Oct 25 13:20:25 2003