In part 5 of our Introduction to Cricket Farming video series, we discuss how to set up a substrate to ensure lots of cricket eggs. We then discuss how to ensure your eggs incubate effectively.
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@yaqdanz60853 жыл бұрын
better than the 25 vids I saw on. the subject. u went deep . cheers
@sirwhiskers6795 жыл бұрын
dude don't be so nervous, they're just crickets ;) keep it up!
@cowabungaweekly32903 жыл бұрын
Dude don’t be nervous you did a great video!
@jamestomerlin37444 жыл бұрын
Sorry for being late to the party but I have to say that is a really cool logo for cricket farming! Thank you for taking the time to share this info.
@joshblick4 жыл бұрын
I breed springtails as well as crickets and will sprinkle some in with the crickets to work on the mold (if any) around the soil.
@ceidelberg2 жыл бұрын
Are you still in the cricket business? Was looking for advice. Thx
@joshblick2 жыл бұрын
@@ceidelberg Now it's more of a hobby. I got into livestock and pretty much dropped the small critters but I still may be able to help.
@ceidelberg2 жыл бұрын
@@joshblick Is it profitable for a small back yard farm these days?
@joshblick2 жыл бұрын
@@ceidelberg Not unless you have a bunch of local bait shops that don't already have people for some strange reason. The short answer is no. Sorry.
@afalz068 ай бұрын
@@joshblickDid you ever try out online selling for live crickets?
@spencerkooyman132 жыл бұрын
Best video I've found yet! Very informative, thank you very much!
@paulcattrone31966 жыл бұрын
Great insight on the 24 hour egg laying time
@the_rat73636 жыл бұрын
Great video very helpful I got adult crickets and they have laid sooo many eggs I’ve got to get a new tub, THANKS😀
@jamiedruby95734 жыл бұрын
Hey thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos this is something that I really need and I’ve got to tell you that you have a nice choice of sweaters can’t wait to see what the next one’s going to look like :-)
@kimberlymarshall56743 жыл бұрын
Awesome job explaining about the care of crickets....Thank you
@56onfilm6 жыл бұрын
Great video with lots of good info. Thanks for posting.
@2baSelkie5 жыл бұрын
Thank you that was really so helpful. I put vermiculite down with a heat mat underneath. I put in earth containers, well the plastic square tubs they came in.Yes the females used the earth and I waited and waited.... Then when I noticed I had very few adults left I also noticed I had pin head size babies In fact now I have 3 large plastic containers with lots of tiny babies, duh :( I put in fruit a ground mix of quaker oates cat food, and a little milk powder and crumbled fish food. Now big problem, water ! I only have one exto terra plastic jar and base with a grill which I put cotton wool making sure it was on the other side of the little grill at the top. This seems the best solution as these wee beasties are suicidal. I even found a large dead female inside the jar. She must have pulled back the cotten wool and somehow managed to squeeze herself in there. It still is the best solution for me right now, but to buy a couple is not too expensive but the postage is 40 + euros !!!!! No way can I afford that. This by the way is all because I saved some tiny frogs and toads just before Christmas :) What should I do? with this bedding there is no smell from the crickets, they are easy to clean and I give them clen toilet rolls and egg cartons. I just cannot work out how to get the babies all together. Before when I have saved lizards I managed to breed crickets, but I did not use anything over the bottom of the tray. Even cleaning a couple of times a day there was still an odour. These little insects may be tiny but oh boy I have not managed to seperate one yet, they move so fast ! Help. Fran
@saltyslug.5 жыл бұрын
Great Job! Very informative
@LGNT5 жыл бұрын
Hey guys watching from Vietnam good job pro
@bradseidt13 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to keep cricket eggs too hot? I'm only asking because I live I live in florida and it's summer time and I've been keeping my eggs in the garage. Normal Temps right now are mid 90's during the day and 80's at night.
@mikewalters4994 Жыл бұрын
Great Video, thanks for sharing !!
@adiinbar9933 жыл бұрын
10:54 It's not clear, are you saying that they won't hatch _while_ they're dry, or that if the ever dry out even once for a few hours then they die and won't hatch even if they're kept moist after that?
@the_rat73636 жыл бұрын
Great vid very helpful😀
@henryperez6972 Жыл бұрын
Thank you very helpful
@OLUSHOLAADEGUN7 ай бұрын
Thanks for this piece of information however i do have reservations concerning incubation. @90⁰c isnt this too high for incubation? I assumed 30⁰c is sufficient for egg incubation.
@58Kym6 жыл бұрын
I use vermiculite for egg laying.
@dominykasaleknavicius31556 жыл бұрын
Hello Craft Crickets, thanks for informative "Intro to Cricket Farming" videos. Do you measure accurate amount (grams or milliliters) of pinheads you release in to a bin?
@craftcrickets8476 жыл бұрын
We do 25ml for the 30 gallon bin. We trialed and derided about 1,000 different amounts until we settled on that. The amount you should do very much depends on your setup.
@juleesandgren25042 жыл бұрын
How do you keep the incubator from collecting condensation which the hatchlings can drown in? I'm using an incubator that I built using a medium size ice chest and a digital thermostat and heat element. I have installed an additional fan which will control the condensation but it rapidly dries out the substrate. However when the fan is off the condensation rapidly builds and I start loosing hatchlings. Thank you for any advice you may have.
@afalz068 ай бұрын
Did you find a solution?
@kls97106 жыл бұрын
I am in Florence. TY for the info
@coreyblunt11473 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info, If pinheads are hatched can I rehydrate the soil if it dries without killing them
@bookworm81822 жыл бұрын
I user coconut fiber and soil I see the eggs so I covered my cricets with the top of the plastic cover and habe it wrapped in a heating pad it's been 4 days will they hatcg
@myartnft2840 Жыл бұрын
how long should I put the bowl of soil in the microwave?
@irThumper5 жыл бұрын
My problem isn't fruit flies but fungus gnats laying eggs in my cricket breeding soil. Is it safe to use Gnatrol/BTI (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) in the egg laying tray, or will this be harmful to the baby crickets when they hatch?
@cattfishing4 жыл бұрын
From what I know is the bt is more worm or grub/larvae focused. But I can't be sure. Fungus gnats are after the fungus/mold and aren't really known for being carnivorous. (That I know of) they wont be competing for food either so, they shouldn't be an issue as far as threatening to your crickets. The fn larvae will eat any mold, or decaying matter and thrive in very moist conditions. Which makes it a bit hard to control them by climate control. I use bt for mosquitoes and fn and have a water can that I dilute the bt and water my plants and fill dishes etc. I also water the substrate in my toads enclosure where crickets have laid eggs and hatched just fine. But there could be a number of reasons why they weren't affected. So I would always rather be safe than sorry.
@ohkaykaykayla28913 жыл бұрын
Weird question but I have adult bandit crickets and the regular like brown house type crickets. Can I breed them together? Or no?
@johnweinberg46256 жыл бұрын
Try jiffy pellets , i have had issues in the past with unwanted soil dwellers. Never use anything that is miracle gro brand!
@forreal75686 жыл бұрын
Have you tried to use vermiculite as lay medium?
@2baSelkie5 жыл бұрын
Yes ! well no, rather not as I had planned things, but oh yes it works :) Comment at the topFran Not sure why they have used my pass word?!?
@sam-ch9mz6 жыл бұрын
Do eggs need and uv or light, or is it just heat and moist?
@jenniferjohnson56485 жыл бұрын
It need heat and moist every week take the egg laying thing out a replace with a new and take the old on and put it in a different one so the adults won't eat them
@aaronphibianexotics14085 жыл бұрын
You moist the soil everyday to make sure it doesn’t dry up. Don’t need UVB, just need a light that’ll give out heat
@movkkk3 жыл бұрын
Is there no ads on your videos?
@jonghyunlover100005 жыл бұрын
Yes, don't be nervous, otherwise you get a big gulp and say things like baughten
@incredibleedibledez2 жыл бұрын
Ugh how do I keep the flipping fruit flies outta my bins?! I've been sick with covid all week and my husband was taking care of the bins, I only have 2. I usually transfer them to one bins every couple of days then alternate as I clean them. I know it sounds tedious but we're using a corner of our reptile room to breed them and they stink like shit lol I opened the bin tonight & the fruit flies and larva(flipping maggots) are everywhere. How do I keep them out of my bins?! I've got traps spaced around but because we keep the door open a lot in the summer we deal with pests.
@omarcano90975 жыл бұрын
hi, thanks for the videos, did you put any kind of food on the earth? thank you
@mill16275 жыл бұрын
I don't put any food in the substrate. I keep the food in a separate space.
@user-tp7ih9wo2q2 жыл бұрын
Hello. I have questions: I have one kilogram how days for arrival 10 kg/day? See you later.
@ceidelberg2 жыл бұрын
Are you still in the cricket business?
@goldpieceleo6 жыл бұрын
How do you throw the old egg crates and used laying substrate? It might have some cricket egg that can hatch when expose into moisture then eventually become invasive. I got around 100 crickets now from my 10 crickets.
@craftcrickets8476 жыл бұрын
I have my crickets hatch in a separate place from the old, adult crickets. The new crickets are placed in a bin with new, clean egg cartons. For the older crickets, I typically only replace the egg cartons after I have harvested all the adults. But if moisture forms and make the cartons unusable, I will remove the crickets from the egg cartons (oftentimes the crickets will remove themselves from the moist egg cartons) by hitting the cartons against the side of the bin, and then replace the egg cartons with new ones. I'm not sure if I answered your question, but please clarify if you were asking something else.
@goldpieceleo6 жыл бұрын
Craft Crickets thank you for your reply. What I mean to ask is how do you dispose the old egg cartoon which may contain cricket eggs that may hatch if the egg cartoons are expose to moisture? Do you burn it or just throw it away in a garbage can? I don't want newly hatch crickets running loose in my house. As for my newly hatched crickets I put them in a container where they can grow before I transfer them into a bin.
@craftcrickets8476 жыл бұрын
Good question. For all my used egg cartons, I compost them. They work as great compost, especially as the cricket frass adds nitrogen to the compost. I mix my egg cartons in with my compost, and they break down fairly quickly. I imagine the eggs either get destroyed or eaten by other things that inhabit my compost piles. However, I live in a different climate from you where I don't think these eggs would hatch on their own. I have never seen baby crickets hatch in my compost. Plus, my crickets aren't invasive where I live, so it wouldn't be an issue. Sorry I don't have a great answer. Perhaps somebody else on here has an idea?
@goldpieceleo6 жыл бұрын
Craft Crickets nope, you've been a great help man. Many of my new cricket knowledge came from you. How to dramatically increase your crickets and all the new stuffs about cricket farming that I never knew before came from you. Hahaha! Maybe I'll just use them to feed my animals but now I am confident to say that my crickets are safe for human consumption all because of those new things that I learned from you. Thank you very much.
@cattfishing4 жыл бұрын
@@craftcrickets847 I know this is really old, but I think he meant to ask how he can dispose of the egg laying soil or substrate when all the laying and hatching has been done. He may be worried about the possibility of starting an infestation of non native species into the environment or possibly just his house.lol
@goldpieceleo6 жыл бұрын
I have 10 pieces of black crickets to feed my taratulas. Only 1 of them is a confirmed male because most of them are females as they have a ovipositor even the juveniles. Now that I had watched your videos I am torn between feeding them to my animals or just use them to make a colony. My question is how many crickets do I need to start up a colony? I'am not decided yet since I have a mealworn colony and I'm planning to buy a dubia to start up a colony maybe a week or so. What I don't like about crickets are they are not as nutritious as other feeder insect like roaches and superworms, they are very smelly, they have a short lifespan, they are noisy and most of all they kill each other.
@craftcrickets8476 жыл бұрын
You could start a colony with just one or two males, but you have little room for errors inevitable with the learning curve. If you wanted to rely on having crickets all the time, I’d buy another bag from the pet store to start with, ensuring you have enough males. The crickets shouldn’t smell if you keep their environment dry and clean though with excessive moisture they can create a horrendous odor. Yep, the nutrition isn’t quite as good as other feeder insects. If you are already successful maintaining a colony of other feeder insects it may not be worth the extra complexity to have crickets as well. I would go with whatever your tarantulas prefer.
@goldpieceleo6 жыл бұрын
Craft Crickets oh, thank you. It's good to have a variety of food every now and then because it helps tarantulas to learn how to hunt a variety of prey giving them mental stimuli and making them more flexible when it comes to food. This is based on my experience on keeping tarantulas that if you give only one kind of prey item to a tarantula sometimes if you introduce another prey item they sometimes consider it as a threat, instead of eating it they'll start throwing threat posture towards it. Thank you very much for the reply. One more question, how long it will take to for a cricket egg to hatch and how long will it take for a newly born nymps to get to maturity? I live in a tropical country in Asia. The temperature here is 77.9 to 82.9 degrees Fahrenheit and the humidity is around 71% to 85%.
@craftcrickets8476 жыл бұрын
The quickest they can incubate is in 9 days. At your temp and humidity, I'd expect it to take about 14 days. As for getting to maturity, the quickest is about 6 weeks. At your temp and humidity, I"d expect it take about 10 weeks. Thanks for sharing the info about the having variety of food for the tarantulas. Very good to know as I get questions like yours from time to time. Thanks!
@goldpieceleo6 жыл бұрын
Craft Crickets thank you very much for your help. I decided to give a laying substrate to the crickets since I saw them trying to lay their eggs on the carrot and in the chicken feed. I hope to see nymps in 2 weeks. I'll get more crickets because I read that inbreeding will make the males sexually unproductive and I'll make them a bigger enclosure since I only keep them in a topper ware for now. Thank you.
@stevestanley51836 жыл бұрын
do you keep the heat lamp on 24 hours?
@craftcrickets8476 жыл бұрын
When it is cold I have been keeping it on 24 hours. It may be preferable to give them some dark time and light time, but because it is so cold right now, I'd rather make sure they have heat than darkness. In my commercial farm I had it lit naturally (i.e. light during the day and dark at night).
@herro516 жыл бұрын
Are you using Acheta Domestica?
@craftcrickets8476 жыл бұрын
Gryllodes sigillatus
@herro516 жыл бұрын
Craft Crickets all other places ive been researching suggest the acheta domesticus. Do you have a video discussing the differences? Love your channel!!
@craftcrickets8476 жыл бұрын
Video 2 of the Intro to Cricket Farming series discusses some pros and cons of each. Glad you like the channel!
@andrewchen18536 жыл бұрын
What species is that? Is it the Banded Cricket?
@craftcrickets8476 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is. Good eyes.
@andrewchen18536 жыл бұрын
Thx, do you know where to buy them here down in Melbourne?
@craftcrickets8476 жыл бұрын
Hey Andrew. I'm not aware of places in Melbourne. Do your local pet stores do crickets? Perhaps call in advance to see if they know the species?
@andrewchen18536 жыл бұрын
Nope, they don't have them, I go to the No.1 reptile shop and they don' t have it.
@Bendover-xv7me6 жыл бұрын
I know am late but you could order them off lllreptiles
@kristofferyoung0885 жыл бұрын
hi Austin! Do you have a skype or any way I can contact you? I have a numver of things I wish to be enlightened about. thanks!
@nathandonick11295 жыл бұрын
My guy... You lost me at microwave.
@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623 Жыл бұрын
if you live in warmer regions, you have to deal with ticks growing in your breeding box. keep it clean regularly and look out for ticks.
@stephensisco32102 жыл бұрын
How do you collect the mature, ready to deep fry crickets ?