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I have 13 reptiles that eat crickets and the crickets cost lots of money.We have been trying for years to breed them,a couple of days ago I put 6 crickets in my fat-tailed geckos cage today I was cleaning out his tank and noticed hundreds of little bugs they were crickets!I put my fattie in another cage.

What would I feed the baby crickets?
keviiiiiiiiiiiiin

i would say a thin peice of carrot or something .. and a fine meal of some sort

>>I have 13 reptiles that eat crickets and the crickets cost lots of money.We have been trying for years to breed them,a couple of days ago I put 6 crickets in my fat-tailed geckos cage today I was cleaning out his tank and noticed hundreds of little bugs they were crickets!I put my fattie in another cage.
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>>What would I feed the baby crickets?
>>keviiiiiiiiiiiiin
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Sonya

all I ever do is get the rice or oatmeal powdered baby cereal and put an orange slice in every few days. Crickets are VERY prolific. One cricket will lay over 500 eggs. To ensure hatching (which takes about 2-3 weeks) you have to keep the substrate moist. If it dries out, you will loose the eggs.
Good luck, have fun. If you want to keep it going, take 6 females and 2 males (about) and seperate them for breeding. When one dies, replace it with another. This will keep you going for a long time. They do seem to take FOREVER to get big enough to feed them to anything, but patience is a vertue!