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and if so what kind of cage would i need to do it in? and could i just use any crickets to breed or do i need certain ones?

put a dish of potting soil very slightly damp in about 2 inches deep. The adult crickets when mature will deposit eggs in the soil. After a bit take the dishes out and put them in there own container keep them about 80 degrees. Pretty soon baby crix. They will be very tiny so you have to have a very fine screen for them not to crawl through. I don't do it myself but this is how I have always seen to do it.

This is so easy!!
Take a short container and put anything moist in it. Make sure it stays moist (until eggs hatch). You can either leave it in with the large crickets or seperate a few in another container. The crickets will lay up to 500 eggs each in about a week. Remove the container and put it in a larger container (something with sides at least 12" high). You must keep the eggs moist and warm. If they dry out you will lose them all. In about 10 days you will have pinheads. they are about the size of the letter "i". feed them, put an orande slice in there and you are good to go. They grow slowly...but you could find yourself with thousands of them if you leave the "nest" in there too long. Cycle them each week and you will have crickets...forever. If the nest should get moldy, you will have to throw it out. You may have pinheads, but you don't want to transfer that to your lizards. Best to just trow it out.
Good luck!
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