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This is the back wall. Lizards ! And More Lizards ! Last wall I did not take pics, it has 2 big tanks of tree frogs and a 70 gallon tank with a bearded dragon and some cricket breeding tubs. :0)

Hey, Eve. How are you breeding crickets? I can't seem to do it without attracting gnats. & baby gnats. *shudder* Thanks, Kristin

Are you making the damp soil or whatever you have for the crickets to lay in, too wet? Because that will cause those pesking little *&^% and old veggies, get rid of them quick when not eating. I just started major cricket breeding, big tanks, potting siol and 1/4 of tank soem egg crates for them to hide the siol is dampened once a day and I keep a light on them 24 hours a day now, keep the temp at about 85- 90 they continue to lay all day and all night, I have alot in there laying. I'm done with buying them I have to many mouth s to feed now ! WAT TO MANY !

Must be used to it by now, Johneee is , LMAO I do know how to spell SOIL just kept typing it wrong, along with SOME and WAY . there I think I fixed them. LOL Eve

I feed them the dry cricket diet stuff so it's not that. & I don't think I'm making the soil too wet either. It's just that when the cricket's die on the damp soil, they kinda rot. & then, boom, gnats. I tried a 10-gallon filled with bed-a-beast but it got really nasty really quick. So right now I have some sphagnum moss in a water bowl so at least I can pick out the dead ones.

as far as the smell. I save my sphagnum fot other things. Just use the soil for breeding tank of crickets, and just a handful in the feeder tank. I pick out any dead bodies everyday if I see any. Change egg crates as soon as they look messy, do my best as to not get my Hubby in an uproar about any smells from MY ANIMALS, ya know. Then he don't complain about them. But it takes alot of work daily !