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OK my Nile monitor is doing great and is growing now thanks to you guys help. Well about a week ago I went fishing and had mayby 30 crickets left over so I figured my monitor would like a snack. I put the crickets in and the next day almost all were gone and by the end of the third it had found them all and eaten them. Apparently b4 they got ate some layed eggs and now I have hundreds of pinhead crickets all over the monitor cage. What can I do to get rid of them. they are escaping the cage and are all over the house. Not fun when the wife dont like crickets. If you got any ideas that would be great. I thought about catching a couple of small lizards and putting them in there but I think the monitor will eat them b4 they do much good.

Thanks for any ideas.

I have had this guy in my cage for 6 months or so. But i'm not sure if it would last with a nile.

I dont really know how to keep the babies at bay besides that haha.

Cheers,
Sean

Put a smooth sided ceramic or glass bowl in the Nile's cage buried up to the brim in the dirt/substrate. Add a small amount of cricket dry food to the bowl. The next morning you'll have a bunch trapped. Repeat it until the numbers go down. Vacuum up the loose ones in the house. Not much else you can do and you'll never get all of them.

I would try the bowl idea but put a piece of orange in the bowl. Crickets can't resist oranges.
I love living in the desert. If the roaches or crickets get out of their cages, they dry up and die.
Good luck.

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Shannon in Reno
1.0 savannah monitor (Pombe-means "beer" in Swahili)
2.4 dogs
1.0 cat
5.32 rats
6.44 mice
7.50 chickens
1.2 beardies
0.1 black rat snake
~500 hissers
1 giant millipede
0.1 Chissel tooth kangaroo rat
1.1 rabbits
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i had a terrible experience with escaped pinheads.

Although they will just die in your house/home eventually, who wants dead crickets about your house?

DUCT TAPE

it works awesome. Just take strips and lay them sticky side up in all the places a cricket might want to hide (along walls, under couches, etc.)

For some reason, they are attracted to teh tape, and then get stuck on it and die.