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What is the best way of putting crickets into a cage? What sort of device or method do you use to actually put the crickets in the cage? I've been experiementing and am thinking of buying a funnel or a turkey baster to keep the crickets in then tap them out near the beardie...

i have all my crickets stored in a large rubbermaid container. i buy around 2-5000 crickets per order. i then use the cardboard rolls from toilet paper or papertowels to pick the crickets up and then i put them into a "cricket duster" container. they then go from the cricket duster to the dragon's cage. cricket dusters can be bought at any pet store or online. itll cost ya about 6 bucks.
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Beach Beardies

3.3.11 bearded dragons
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If you are not buying your crickets in bulk , and just get them a couple dozen at a time from a pet store. Then just simply open the bag and sprinkle some calcium / vitamin powder and shake them up and dump them in.

If you buy more then you need for one feeding then I suggest using a large size plastic deli cup. You just knock what you need off of the carboard eggcrate and dust then feed. If you dont have a deli cup, the plastic cups you can keep from taco bell or a slurpie cup, works the same.

hope this helps

peace,
nate
Uluru Dragons

he jumped in the cricket cup

Most people i know use a rubbermaid container, about 25 gallons, and house the crickets in there with a couple egg cartons so they can climb and hide. When it comes to feeding time, they put some crickets into a tiny bucket or large deli-cup and then sprinkle them with multi-vitamins and calcium and then shake them into the cage of the bearded and the dragon eats as it pleases.

As I always like to gut load any crickets I get, I set up a rubbermaid container with egg crate. The size of the container depends on how many crickets I am buying in bulk. To feed, I just shake crickets out of egg crate pieces into a ziplock bag big enough to put the egg crate into it (do this over the rubbermaid container to catch any crickets that may jump off the egg crate before you get it into the zip lock bag. For feedings I want to dust, I just add the powders into teh ziplock bag first. Once the crickets are inside, I close the bag, give a shake and pour the crickets from the bag into either ceramic bowl or feeding dish, usually a few at a time, to give my dragon a chance to eat what is in his dish, then add more till he stops eating or 5 minutes have gone by, whichever happens first. Any uneaten crickets are dumbed into the cricket container. The powders will be rubbed off by the crickets so redusting will be necessary for the next time.
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PHLdyPayne

I also do the baggie thing but dump the dusted crickets into their salad dish so when they go to eat the crickets they also enjoy their salad!
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Cheryl

I make it way more complecated then need be!! lol
I have a plastic dr pepper bottle the 1 liter bottle i think it is that i have cut the top off right under where the cap screwed in so that its kinda like a funnel. I scoop them up with that usually in the corner of the rubbermaid container then dumb them into a duster which is nothing more then a plastic cup with a lid that i got from bulion cubes then i dumb them into the cage so he gets to run around and hunt for them! Probablly more steps then needed but hey it works for me and its really easy to control how many crickets i scoop out at one time!

M
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Mike & Wendy

2.0.0 Siberian husky, Jackrussel/schitzu
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1.0.1 Leopard Gecko
1.0.0 Beardie
4.0.0 Beta's
3.1.0 Future Herper's

Hi
old papertoowel rol the inside i make oitside smooth with tape.
then make top tight.
cut of the under site diogonal a piece of so cricks can go in.
then a rubbermaid container and put the papertowelrols init with the top on top .
then if you take a plastic bag and take rol out you can tap against rol and cricks fal out.
then i put them in container and put them in the freezer.
i lok every 10-20 sec til the legs move little bit and r almost not moving any more.
that depend on the size cricks .
small cricks 30 sec bigger cricks 1,2 minuts.
then dusting and put cricks over salad bowl.
then after a vew minuts the cricks start to move and r a easy prey.
so with more babies in same cage you not get a eating freanzy and wil not nip on toes a tails .
and the cricks wil not hide so fast .
excuse for my english am dutch.
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