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well i get 1000 crickets a week, and it costs me 15 bucks, so i decided to start breeding them. first couple tries didnt work but i learned quick. so finally a couple weeks ago my third batch hatched within a week they all hatched and i had hundreds of thousands im not even exaggerating. they were doing great for about a week, i was feeding them vit-all cricket gutload so then i was thinking it might have too many vitamins in it so i started giving em potatos, carrots, red lettuce. they seemed to be having a little trouble eating it or just didnt like it as much as the vit-all so i went to petco and got this cricket food stuff by trex its a really fine powder. about two days later half of them had died i was blowing in the container so i could see howmany were left and the stench of urine wafted up, so i assumed it was humid enough out to prevent the urine from evaporating so i closed the cellar window to cut down on humidity. oh by the why i was keeping them in a large tupperware container with coconut fiber bedding i kept about 10% of it saturated for the pinheads to drink from maybe 15% at times. once the huimidity was down half of that half diedso i looked real close and noticed some little dots of what seemed to be waste then i was catching some pinheads for my newborn house geckos i picked up a piece if potato that had some sitting on it then i noticed what seemed to be droplets of moisture then i looked closer and noticed they were tiny bugs or mites or something, they were on all of the veggies in the cage tons of them, so i figure they must have been killing the crickets or eating all their food and causeing them to starve. although i suppose the abundance of waste could have been the problem but i still think it was them little bugs either way id like some help if you have any to be given. what did i do wrong? what up with them bugs? where did the come from? are they a threat?(if they are competition for food i would assume they are)how do i get rid of them? if any of you breed your own crickets how do you go about doing it?
thanks
JUSTINIAN

why dont you try again without all that fancy stuff and feed them fresh grass, and stuff like corn. They love corn. I have unwated baby crickets all the time and they grow quick. I notice too much moisture kills them.