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What size container for 1,000 crickets?

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Axe
The Reptile Rooms

well for now 1/4 inch ones moving up in size. i have 2 beardies and it's gonna get expensive buying $1 a dozen from the local pet store. so i would like to order in bulk.

i read about using a rubber maid box but just don't know the size i'll need. i've neever seen how many 1,000 cricket's look like to be honest. haha thanks for any tips!

you could probably get away with just a 10 gallon....

If you can afford it, I'd get one of the polykits from Armstrong's (they're gonna be at the Tampa show this weekend btw).

Here's an article Cheri wrote on how we keep our crickets

This article shows the Polykits from Armstrong's, but we also use regular rubbermaids (10, 20, 30 & 50g capacities for various amountz & sizes of crickets).

Hope this helps
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Axe
The Reptile Rooms

Okies, looks like the URL tag died..

http://www.reptilerooms.com/Sections index-req-viewarticle-artid-53-page-1.html

Just copy paste that address into your browser
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Axe
The Reptile Rooms

Just use a long rubbermaid tube (about 112L or 13"x22"x14), fill about half with stacked egg flats (usually holds about 2 dozen eggs each) glued together, bottom to bottom or just tear up a whole bunch till about half the depth is covered. (I would use the latter method as y ou can pick up each torn section and shake the crickets out into a bag or another container, both for feeding and to clean the tub). The lid of the rubbermaid can either have a whole bunch of holes drilled in (the smaller the cricket you plan to keep, the smaller the holes need to be, but fortunately, pin heads don't climb that well). Or, cut a large section out of the lid (or two smaller sections) the cover with fine aluminum screen.

I don't bother using any substrate for the crickets, too messy, to hard to keep clean and too prone to cause problems. Just clean the tube every month or so, by either waiting till you run and and a new shipment of crickets arrives..or having two containers, and switching over to one as the other is being cleaned.

Previously I used one of those huge rubbermaid tubs, I'd guesstimate probably around 30 gallons. It worked great but the only problem was that is was just so large and bulky, with limited space and the fact that it just to cold at night to leave them outside. Now I am using a smaller 19qt rubbemaide container, I believe it cost me around $3 and its small enough that I can just stick it right under my cage stand. I am on my second batch of 1000 crix and it seems be working A-OK, although it is a little tricky getting the crix out of the shipping box into the tub without losing a bunch. Hope that helps ya sir.

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