>>I am buying about 100 crickets a week from the pet store to feed 1 Beardy. I buy them 2 times at 50 each time. They just keep dying. So I have decided to try and breed them or at least think about it. How hard is it and what items do I need? Any help would be appreciated. I have read some guides to breeding them and stuff but would like opinions from people who actually are breeding them.



In my opinion breeding crix is a pita and if you have them die before you are feeding them off you are gonna have to do some major changes in their upkeep to get them to breed.



Breeding involves dirt trays, high humidity, careful feeding, watching for mold and more room than I cared to donate.



If you are feeding an adult BD and need large crix you are talking getting thousands to hatch, keeping as many alive as possible for nearly two months....just to have medium larges to feed off. Did I mention how much of a PITA it is? The ONLY time I found it worthwhile was when I needed tons of pinheads. I could feed them off before they died.



Buy a thousand mediums at a time and save some money....once you learn to keep them nice room temps with humidity and food.



BTW if you are buying LARGES they may be dying of old age before you can feed them all. Maybe try buying mediums and see if they last.



Also, when we were into breeding Beardys and needed feeders by the fistful we got a colony of Lobster roaches. Breed well, no stink, darn near impossible to kill....just a thought
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