The transit was rough on them Him: BLAM BLAM BLAM on the box 😂😂

lettuce is also good to use as its 85% water. I use lettuce and shaved carrot for my crickets. Also crushed up dog food is very good as well

If anybody is here to learn how to breed crickets for leopard geckos DO NOT use citrus fruits to feed and water the crickets as citrus fruits are bad for leopard geckos

6:04 cricket pop's out of the box like: "did you say breeding?"

If you feed your crickets orange it makes them more citric acidic in nutrients which is poisonous to bearded dragons, For people reading this comment if your planning on feeding a beardy with this method of bred crickets feed then pepper as a moist alternative, Possibly dusted with calcium as everything you feed your insects is past onto their consumer 😊

I just found 4 crickets in the backyard so here I am.

He's right about the thirst ... whenever I feed my reptiles crickets they spend more time licking up moisture from the walls and floor rather than escaping the massive lizard behind them

Is anyone else so bored in self-isolation that they looked up cricket breeding "just because"? (I enjoyed the video BTW!)

Thanks! I’m 10 so I can’t really buy my own crickets, and my parents complain on how much they can cost for so many! And thanks to this video I can breed my own crickets without waiting for my 2 dollar allowance 😂😁👍

*My secret to not losing any crickets:* Transfer crickets to breeding bins outside around chickens When there is only a few left clinging to the box, give box to the chickens

Me spending my days breeding crickets when the world is ending like:

So just a tip for any one you can use a test tube for water. 1 fill test tube with water 2 push a cotton ball in tube where it is tight. (Try to keep air bubbles to a minimum. Also its a good idea to make certain that it dose not drain from the tube when upside down.) 3 lay tube on its side and be sure the cotton is fully wet. watch as the crickets drink from the cotton

thank you, i needed this as my frogs recently just had babies and this is definetly a cheaper way of getting food then buying tons of crickets.

I did this and it’s bern very successful it was fairly expensive. I have my crickets breed put the breeding box into the incubator after a week then I immediately feed the breeding crickets to my lizards, frogs, turnantulas, and salamander. After 5 days I put the pin head crickets into the breeding area again empty the top soil into a trash can and repeat the process. Self sustaining breeding!!

Put the box in the fridge for 15 minutes and they will go dormant so you can transfer them easily.

6:04 “Am I on yet?” 🦗 😂😂😂

I have absolutely no interest in raising crickets but this was a very interesting and well done video. Thanks for posting it.

I don’t have a lizard why am I here

499 crickets after 6:13 when the ninja escapes

Currently I am doing research on cricket. Your explanation is clear and up to the point. Keep it up

Thank's for posting this informative video. I have backyard chickens, In the summer months I catch those giant water bugs, the chickens eat them like popcorn. However in the winter there are no bugs in my yard. I usually buy the dry crickets for the winter months but I think there are not much nutrients in them. Your video hands down is the best how to for growing crickets I have seen.

Thanks for a video that was very informative and to the point and done with a stationary camera!

If you dont want escaping crickets do this: Put the crickets in the fridge for a few minutes (around 10 or so). This wont kill them at all, they will just go into dormant (slowing down its movment). then take the box of crickets and put them in the tubs your keeping or breeding them in.

I just won the cricket contest for August. This video is super helpful! I am going to try breeding my own. Thanks for the free crickets! ☺️

How not to get runaway crickets = Put the tubs in the bathtub before opening the box and emptying the crickets. Works for me. 😂

@6:10 , a cricket peeked out :D

Great video 👍🏼👍🏼 but I just have one question! How often should I change the vermiculite and soils?

First video game reviews... then breeding crickets. THANKS KZfaq

6:14 bye!!!

I was breeding crix for animals and then ended up breeding them for a research project at the university. This is similar to my process. My steps were: 1. I also used vermiculite as the base and I also used moistened vermiculite in the plastic laying container. Over the laying media, I fit a close fitting layer of wire mesh with a 3-5mm openings. This kept the crix from burrowing into the laying media and making a mess, they simply laid the eggs through the mesh into the damp vermiculite with their ovipositors. 2. I changed out the laying containers every week and stacked the relidded individual weeks in groups so same week hatched together. When I saw pinheads, all that week lays were boxed up together. 3. They were fed cheap fish flakes, chopped carrot and watered using large testtubes stopped with cotton wool. The project required aged matched cohorts of virgin females and males introduced at different ages so they had to be sorted through into sexes once they developed visible genitalia etc so this was the best way to breed this native species of cricket. I figure this would work for nearly any species though. Edit: they had egg cartons to hide in too.

I think keeping insects as pets is neat, and crickets have to be a great candidate. They make sound, hatch as miniature versions of adults(instars), easy to keep track of in their later life stages, and are a delight to observe. The first species I had, were the usual House Crickets. A long domesticated cricket, with average characteristics and somewhat passive in nature. But, my favorite would be Banded Crickets. They have come onto the market not too long ago. Their defining features, would be longer antennae, and dark bands around their body and legs. Just as passive as House Crickets, from my time observing them. Both types can eat dog food, having raised a new generation fully off of dog food and a water tray(basically, a wet paper towel in a reptile bowl to prevent drowning). They grew normally, but, I did observe something noteworthy. These new adults, in contrast to their parents, had more winged individuals. To clarify, I know males have noise making wings. But, both males and females in this generation had large wings that could enable them flight. Be it the dog food, or, the environment. These dog food raised crickets seemed healthier, and casualties from stress, disease, and cannibalism were minimal, or, nonexistent. What I hypothesize, is these crickets must be well fed and had little to no nutrient deficiency. I’m not saying the dog food brand was great, but, it shows this generation had a better start than their more, “unfortunate” parents’ start. I believe getting the crickets young, would ensure their development is secured early. Making the likelihood of winged adults almost certain. I had great interest in bugs and plants from a young age. And, I hope to inspire others to try raising crickets or other bugs for fun, or, to discover any similar physical manifestations that I have.

the box of crickets was absolutely horrifying

I have an idea for no run away, and a good splitting 50/50 idea :)) Maybe you can have them custom made, or do it yourself. You could package the boxes so theres 2 sections, place a divider in the center, but do not have the divider come all the way to the top, leaving a gap between the top of the divider and the top of box, glue tiny cardboard protruding tabs 2 on each side,all level with the divider, making sure all 4 walls have tabs, tabs only come out far enough to support a top piece of cardboard that will cover the top, almost as if its a ''false bottom'' the top cardboard cover will have 2 holes cut out, one over the center of each chamber, but placed near the edge of box for ease of sliding and moving crickets out of box. you then cut a toilet paper roll in half or as high until you reach the height of the top of the box. These "tunnels" will have a plastic cap, or plastic wrap tie held with rubber band. Essentially you will just have to open the main box send out from you, you will look inside and be presented with a flat piece of cardboard with 2 tunnel systems protruding equally spaces from the edges, with the covers over them. Sides of box still has mesh for breathing. All your customers will have to do is decide to either open both tunnel vents at the top and pour them like a funnel into the container, or they can choose to open one at a time, for placement of 50% into each container. Then either tap the box upside down till they are all out, leave it like that for them to come out in their own time, also this may eliminate any stressors from the travel. Not sure if this works for you, but I would have a funner time doing this if they were not jumping all over the place frantically, I envisioned this after watching your video, I loved it by the way, very informative. Thank you.

thanks! i’m tired of having to go to the pet store and buying crickets for my toad all the time!

6:14 your box now has 999 crickets.

This is awesome, I will have to give it a go, I keep ants and frogs, and I have a good system were if the mealworms or crickets get too big for the frogs, the ants will eat them (ironically, the smaller animal prefers the bigger meal lol). For fluids for the mealworms I keep, I use the blue watergel things for them, I assume for crickets they are good too.

I came here coz out of nowhere a cricket was in my room. Turned my lamp off, was about to sleep and this critter started chirping. I have had plants in my room (quite alot) for a little over a year now and i know it is said that plants attract lives. But I have never seen a single cricket before plus, I live in a 27th floor of an apartment.

6:13 who else saw the cricket jump out???

Thank you. I am glad to know how to do this and especially the time frames involved which are surprisingly quick and the 90 F temperature for hatching.

I'm going to do this for my lizard, it really helps, thank you!

I love ordering from you guys! But my beardie is a growing boy so he eats A LOT of them and sometimes run out. This'll be so much more convient and looks like fun!

Great video: followed these steps exactly and found instant and awesome results

vermiculite is actually really good for planting mediteranian herbs. Its made by subjecting mica (a flakey shiny mineral) to heat in a kiln until it explodes.

I have two questions, 1. Why put the egg trays in a different kind of box, why not just an empty rearing tray? 2. How do you harvest the crickets for consumption.

What do you use for a lid to keep them in the tub during this process.

A couple more tips for smell control: add baking soda to this substrate & add more air holes to the container

In order to supply water, I have been using the same system as ant breeders do ... I use little plastic tubes, and fill them with water, and plug the end with cotton wool. There's always a supply of water without the risk of drowning!

6:05 anyone notice that cricket pop his head out of the box?

TOP TIP: You can't do this with Elephants, I've tried. 😁

Such an awesome video! Thank you for the help, I had no idea it was so simple! I can't wait to try this myself!

So helpful! I have 150+ tarantulas. So I can really use my own cricket farm.

Me! But I am a nanny to 2 turtles this Summer & Pet Store never has them. So considered starting a farm. Very detailed info. THANKS SO MUCH!

This is so insightful! I buy crickets for my A. avicularia but on average half of the usually 10 crickets I buy at my local petco die within 48 hours. I want to raise crickets so I don’t have to constantly buy them. Amazing video and awesome store!

The great escape 6:14

I have a breaded dragon and my quite young so I don’t buy my crickets, but my parents complain all the time, so I bought a breeding set, some water and food, and 5 boxes of baby crickets! This helped so much! Thanks! 😊

Excellent video! Best I’ve seen of how to do the process successfully. Thank you for making it.

using a paintbrush works to move most bugs. i use a brush to move my isopods that are easily squished

6:14 IM FREEEEE!!!!! MUAHAHAHAA

VERY HELPFUL VIDEO!!!

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This was really helpful all my crickets kept dying. I have got a red eyed tree frog

Thought the title said chickens, this helps too though.

My OCD sparked when you put the soil in over the original substrate and some of the dirt fell in LOL. Love the video though. You speak very clearly.

The secret to not losing any circkets is putting them in the fridge for a few minutes to enter dormancy but not long enough to die. But also, fantastic content, I am so excited to start my own colony!

can you please do a how to video on how to breed and raise dubia roaches? they are by far the best protein for reptiles next to superworms.

Watching this with headphones made that transfer terrifying. They were in my ear

I just ordered crickets and super worms from you without knowing I have been watching your videos 😂

Great video. Simple, cheap, and really easy to get a rolling breeding cycle going. It would've been good to know what kind of temps these tubs need to stay at (I'll just have to look it up). Thanks!

what would be a great method of monitoring the temperature of your container holding the baby cricket eggs? Are there specific thermometers that you would recommend? Thank you for this content by the way!

10:14 I love how you're demonstrating how you're gonna LIFT them up. 😆😆😆

Best advise I have seen on raising crickets and I have watched a bunch. Thank you

Get yourself one of those little cvs massagers. They just vibrate and have 4 little nubs on them. It makes them release from the box.

I dont even have any reptiles or anything that eats crickets why am I watching this??? Still very informative.

Extremely informative, Excellent!!

I did it!! I finally got pinheads!! They are so tiny!! Thanks for the video!!

this is the prettiest setup ive ever seen

do you COVER your containers while doing all of this? it only shows the inside of containers when you are setting it all up

Lol I have no lizard I just farm crickets

you are amazing man i want to make a farm in egypt to use it as fish food and chickens food your video helps me a lot thank you so uch

I just use cheap wood shavings, and for the breeding soil plain coco fiber. I love feeding carrots cuz they don't attract flies or anything nasty and cucumber for the water. They sit right under pretty hot heating lights, I don't mist them either, they never had a problem with it. We breed the fat black ones tho, maybe they're hardier? Only problem I ever had was mites, but that resolved on its own by carefully monitoring the breeding soil, preventing it to get too packed with eggs or too moist. Actually found its better to let the containers dry up a bit when they start hatching.

Could you put buffalo beetles with crickets since they like to die off a lot? I was thinking the beetles would eat the dead ones and like reduce the smell

My lizards love crickets!!!

Great video, I plan on doing this to go fishing with them.

The vermiculite will soak up moisture from the fruit. You should put the pieces in a small plastic dish. I use the jello containers my kids eat. You can cut the sides to make the container more shallow.

I have white’s tree frogs. What would I be able to feed the crickets so that they are properly gut loaded for my frogs?

Any tips on keeping flies away? I’ve tried this before and I had flys and their larvae in my bin 😭

Thank you soooooooo much! First vid I watched. Not the last. Super informative and helpful.

Thanks for the Awesome pictorial/film/video. I'm gonna give it a try.

6:05 Should i do it? Should i do it? Should he do it? I'm FREEEEE

I breed crickets in a rainforest themed terrarium and they do absolutely great

This is actually quite interesting.

At 6:05 the little cricket pooped out and and was like ladies we have arrived it’s party time

Wow this video is awesome man thanks alot bro

How often do you clean or change the vermiculite?

7:28 1. put what has crickets in the box 2. put arm in corner and cover the box with a top leaving only the gap your arm is in 3. shake violently

Nice looking at the wall

I bought 9 dozen crickets for my gecko and put them in its old tank with some crumbled up paper and apple slices and ive been watching it so deeply and interested i almost go completely braindead😭 I have a whole community right before my eyes

My secret would be patience and persistence

I use a microfiber duster (the kind with the dreadlocks, lol) for water distribution. I put it in a dish and soak it every day. The crickets love it. I give them orange slices, too, for a treat.

Wow that was really all I wanted to know packed in one video! Great job mate