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fighting crickets

khorne99 May 04, 2004 04:54 PM

can any1 tell me where to buy these? or.....can all crickets become fighting crickets?

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Fish_head May 15, 2004 10:00 AM

Well,
all crickets do fight in a way, but field crickets have the most entertaining fights ( well at least in my country, Singapore )
I buy my crickets from the local pet store, sometimes i get lucky and get a 1 inch plus cricket, but now they seemed to have changed the species of cricket. Sometimes i catch mine, they are often in better condition then the ones i get from the pet stores
the bigger the cricket's jaw, the better the fighter.
i've seen some fights in thailand, the locals there use a small ( very small ) brush to "disturb" the cricket, by brushing the cricket's head and making it think that theres another cricket nearby, fights really lead to deaths but legs maybe lost occasionally, most fights involve the locking of jaws.
If u like bug fighting, u might want to try out fighting spiders, which are actually the males of jumping spiders, quite fun to watch too
HOPE U ARE SUCCESSFUL

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