How to Breed Crickets: Incubation, extended version
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ย. 2021
- This video covers our incubation set up in a single-room barn.
Optimal conditions, the presence of mold, days to hatch, etc.
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Love your videos Shelby!
Thanks so much for watching!
Loving your videos! I’m in Oz an you are the most informative an helpful I have come across!
Thank you so much!! Thank you so much for watching.
Great info. Thanks for sharing!!
No problem! Thanks for watching.
Amazing! Great video
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much trying to breed for my reptiles you have so many videos about basically any question
Thanks so much for watching! If there’s ever a question that I don’t cover, please feel free to drop it in a comment. Happy to help! 🙂
Great video. Thank you! Interested in raising my own protein. One question - once they're in the second container, how do you get them into the freezable zip bags without them jumping away?
I watched this one while doing dishes...
Takeaway, I should think about getting some kind of thermometer to be sure.. and I need to get a heat emitting standard lightbulb to go with the clip on fixture I have. Right now I set up a plant heat mat that I have put off to the side so the eggs in soil are not directly cooked but it will just warm up the chamber/bin overall.
That sounds like it should work.
Can you use paper pie pans. I just wanna throw it all away. Do adult crickets bury themselves in the substrate when you dont use a screen?
I wouldn’t recommend it! They’ll eat holes in paper and all of your substrate will drain out. I’ve even seen them eat holes in the cheap, disposable aluminum pie tins 🫠
You can use old plastic containers if you want something more disposable!
They do burrow a bit, but not terribly. I find they do that the most when it’s not quite time for them to have a breeding tray yet.
Great questions! I hope this helps.
Thanks for these videos! How long can cricket eggs be stored before one has to incubate and hatch them? Could I keeo them dry and cool for a few months to a year? Also, How do you transfer the pinheads to another container without getting pinheads everywhere?
There's A LOT here. 1. you can lower the temps to 73 and it will extend incubation from 11-14 days to 21-28 days. 2. DO NOT let them dry out. They wont hatch if they dry out. 3. Pinheads get out alllll the time. Hopefully, you have way more than you need.
I finally remembered a question that I keep forgetting. I have had gnats inside the incubation tubs, they come out when I open up the top. They go everywhere and I was curious what is inside the soil that hatches those types of flies? Or do you know where they come from? Thanks for all the info and help
They’re probably fungus gnats! Are there little orange eggs that you can see? A thin layer of sand on top of the substrate can help to reduce them.
@@BuildingInASmallTown thank youuuu! I will try the sand and also I'll look up what the eggs look like :)
Vermiculite works great for hatching crickets.
I’ve never used it! I’ve heard from others that the salt content makes it difficult for the eggs to hatch, but like I said, I don’t have any experience with it. If it’s working for you, I would say stick with it.
@@BuildingInASmallTown To be honest I've only tried potting soil besides vermiculite and I really didn't take special care of it so nothing hatched out of it. That and it was house crickets and not banded crickets. I got the vermiculite idea from watching a video by Josh's Frogs and I have yet to have a batch that hasn't hatched. :) First batch I set on top of my bearded dragon enclosure near the heat lamp to keep it warm. Took a while for them to hatch but they did :D Now I have a specific room with heat and humidity regulated to raise and hatch crickets.
@@jyrex978 that's awesome! I'm glad it's working for you. The specific room will definitely keep the crickets happier (and, you're beardie fed!) Glad to hear it!
@@jyrex978 whats the longest it took to hatch? watching my soil at 73 degrees in my apartment and nothings hatching. Using soil I sterilized beforehand.
Crickets like it warm and moist (I'm from the midwestern states) so around 80-90 with a decent moisture level in the soil. It's easier hatching in a smaller container than a larger one. BTW I pretty much gave up on crickets; most of my animals eat dubias now. Crickets are great for hunting responses and I can feed as treats as I order them now.
Your information is good but it good have been explained in 5 minutes instead of going on and on about shit that's not relevant. Just get to the point
I suppose you get what you pay for. Thanks for watching anyway and I hope it didn’t ruin your day!
@The Cricket Lady My temp in the winter is 73 consistently, in my apartment- its been about 3.5 weeks and all the soil with eggs havent hatched. Is there any rare reasons not to have eggs hatch? They are moist, they are in humid focused incubation (but no temp increase). Can soil you get online be sprayed with insecticides? I have a fricking cricket utopia with healthy food, alot of space, increased humitidy, low smell, no mold. Looking for special reasons, other than Temp for eggs to not hatch. Edit: I have even added pieces of leaves to hold moisture in to the soil. And oven sterilize the soil at 350F to avoid mold beforehand, and let cool.
It's possible that the soil could have pesticides or fertilizers, but my guess is you are incubating at too low of a temperature. Did they end up hatching?
@@BuildingInASmallTown 25 days at 73 degrees, yep finally hatched, I was so happy. Organic lettuce for water and chow, plus some organic cricket chow powder off of amazon. I used organic soil, and coco coir- and ovened it at 400 degrees for 3 hours to kill anything in it before, just in case.
The video said her space is at 85/86 degrees. Maybe a heating pad under your incubator will help process/speed? :)