Someone was asking about dehydrated cricket water, so I'm posting a link to an online site that sells the 'water crystals' used to make cricket water:
http://www.theartisticshop.com/water polymer crystals.htm
Alternately, you can use the link I provide on the bottom to reach the same place.
Polyacrylamide (water crystals) should be mixed roughly 1 ounce to one gallon of preferably distilled water. I use tap water, but the directions say use distilled. I've used it as a gravel and water substitute for my lucky bamboo, as a soil additive to improve the water retention characteristics of soil, and of courese as cricket water. I'm told a powdered version of these same crystals are also used in making diapers, which is why diapers hold in so much wetness. Lots of other applications for this stuff (humidifiers for cigar boxes, crafts, room fresheners, etc...)
I would say send me a private e-mail and I'll send you a small sample (1 ounce, enough to make 1 gallon cricket water), but I'm notoriously slow at sending out snail mail. Ask Eric A!
water crystals online
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Victor Gomez
gomezvi.tripod.com/sdchamkeepers/
gomezvi@yahoo.com
