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Hello,im going to get a collard lizard and i wanna start breeding crix...Are they hard to breed?please post some info..

~Iggygurl~

1.0green iguana,1.0rough green snake,0.2pygmy goats,0.1champion show rabbit,some cats and a bird

For a single reptile, I wouldn't bother breeding crickets. Just mail order the size you need. Breeding crickets and keeping the right size in stock all the time, is alot of work. Not to mention regular cleaning needed to keep the bins from smelling to bad, the noise of the adult males and escapees.

One setup I read about at the link included below, you need two large rubbermaid containers, with holes cut into the lids and covered with aluminum screen. Fill it with egg cartons or egg flats (large sheets that hold 2 dozen or more eggs). Use shadow dishes with soil for the females to lay eggs. You have to remove these shadow dishes every day or so and incubate them in another container till any eggs laid in them hatch. Then you have thousand of pinhead sized crickets to transfer into another bin to raise. Once they get older, you need to take about half of them and put them back into the adult breeding cage as adults die off. You pretty much need twice as many containers than you are currently using so you can transfer crickets from one to the other to clean the tubs.

http://www.geocities.com/borderviewdragons