The tape around the top is brilliant! I typically use vaseline, it’s a mess ! Gnats get stuck in it , it gets all over me , sometimes it gets hot and starts dripping 🥴 today I’m gotta swap everything to tape !
Super useful!! I've got a crested gecko that really loves her crickets but I've always struggled with keeping them alive and healthy long enough. Didn't know you could use isopods either. Thanks!
I have vermiculite as the substrate 3" deep in an 80L container and I had 500 of them. Now I have about 440 after 3 days. The only reason they're dying I can think of is heat because it's Autumn (about 23°c indoors. There's plenty of food and cardboard (mostly toilet rolls and paper towel roles).
@@ChiefSweetsUniverseUpdate They're not dying off now, they won't breed at all. I hear some chirping but no eggs. They all congregate around the small heatpad I got from the local pet store. It's fucking infuriating because I can't find anything about warming crickets without spending alot of money. I have egg crates for them now. How do I heat them?
Very good video, but there are questions I just don't get answers to neither in the Internet nor from people working in the stores. How long does it take for crickets to recover from the transport (dehydration, lack of food, stress), and how long should I let that egg container in the box? I never see crickets actually laying eggs (they are fast as hell and seem to notice when I enter the room, and yes, I tried showering beforehand). Should I let the egg container in the box for a week and then transfer it, although I do not know, if there are eggs at all in the egg box? I wish, there was a picture or table with the life cycle of a cricket and how long it takes from mating to egg deposition.
Nice to meet you! Excuse me for posting from Japan. I understood you to mean putting in woodlice and the like, but will the woodlice breed? Also, woodlice like humidity, but it seems that crickets can't do well in an environment with too much humidity. Is it difficult to manage them? (Sorry if the translation is strange.)
You could get a small cricket keeper container and put it in the tank/bin you keep the crickets in with food in the cricket keeper. Leave it a little bit and some crickets will go in and you can close the lid. Cricket keepers have little tubes on the sides and the crickets will climb up in them to be in the dark. U take out the tube and shake it directly into the enclosure. Or, if you have small egg carton pieces, they’ll climb on and they usually won’t jump off as u pick it up and bring it into the reptile enclosure. Then u can just shake the carton in the tank
Sorry if this is asked already, but how do you move the baby crickets to the adult bin once they grow up? Just wonder what the easiest method would he expecially if you had hundreds to move from the baby tank to the adult tank.
I dont know if anyone will see this but how does he keep isopods on woth his crickets when isopods need humidity and humidity is dangerous for crickets?
Hey man I love your Videos! Quick question what size Crickets would you recommend buying to start a colony with? Ive been hearing people say start with 3/4 so roughly 5 week. Is this the size you would start with or go more adult?
Eggs - check Babies - check Growing babies - disappears?? If that makes sense, I get them to about pinhead size then they just disappear and idk what I am doing wrong?😢 otherwise video helped a TON!
Hi, I live in Indonesia and I dont know whats the substitude for top soil, the one we have here have compost etc, can I use reptisoil, excavator clay and reptisand mix for my bearded dragon?
So everything I have read online says that if you put isopods and springtails with crickets, the crickets will eat them all. Is this true? I only have 25 isopods to start, so I'm kind of nervous to "test" it.
Definitely not true at all. Maybe if they starved them but sometimes I wonder if the isopods eat the crickets up haha. Buy I breed my isopods for my other tanks in the crickets bins
Do you let your bearded dragon explore around your home? I've been letting my BABY bearded dragon roam around our apartment living room (we vacummed and removed unsafe objects) for 20 minutes a day, since I know they need to bask in their enclosure for 12 hrs under UVB. He is in a 40 gallon tank.
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse Thank you! That gives me peace if mind. Do you do paid consultations where I can call you and ask you questions for a fee? (I'm not a scammer, btw).
Hi chief, I really want to convert my leopard gecko tank to bioactive, but I was not sure if my wooden tank would start to rot. If it is possible could you please make a tutorial on how to do it. thanks for all the videos
@ChiefSweetsUniverse I don't know what I'm doing wrong but my crickets keep dying idk if it's too much moisture or what but I've tried twice now with 120 crickets each time. I feed them the romaine lettuce. I used top soil and play sand. It ended up getting small little white look alike worms both times. Help!!
Very good quality video! As a chameleon keeper, I am thankful for this video.
Dont mind me. Just waiting for a dubia roach breeding guide to see EVERYTHING I been doing wrong. 😂
Your in luck he has one 😂
This is a great video. Easy, concise and straight to the point. Thank you.
Happy to help
You should definitely give some alternative cheaper options for soil and sand reptile.Branded soils and sand are very expensive for no reason
Go to the beach with a bucket Free sand. And you can get free dirt from your back yard, and free leaves from under any tree. Hope this helped.
❤ thank you! I’m learning so much from your videos
Happy to help!
This is very in depth and I thank you for that
Happy to help!
0:16 😂. Breading easy maintenance of life difficult
The tape around the top is brilliant! I typically use vaseline, it’s a mess ! Gnats get stuck in it , it gets all over me , sometimes it gets hot and starts dripping 🥴 today I’m gotta swap everything to tape !
I used to use Vaseline as well and know exactly what you mean. I legit hated when it would drip down. Haha.
Could you show (or talk about) how you feed your reptiles (specifically the bearded dragon/s) with this cricket setup?
Thank you for posting this. Its been super helpful.
No problem happy to help!
thanks so much! I needed this!
Happy to help!
Super useful!! I've got a crested gecko that really loves her crickets but I've always struggled with keeping them alive and healthy long enough. Didn't know you could use isopods either. Thanks!
Happy to help!
This is so helpful! How fast do crickets grow to pet store “small” and “large” sizes?
Well you kind of answered right at the end, right after I typed this 😂
No worries haha. But yeah around 2-3 months
I have vermiculite as the substrate 3" deep in an 80L container and I had 500 of them. Now I have about 440 after 3 days. The only reason they're dying I can think of is heat because it's Autumn (about 23°c indoors. There's plenty of food and cardboard (mostly toilet rolls and paper towel roles).
I used to use vermiculite but it’s dry and they dehydrated easier. I would switch to regular soil I notice the moisture helps
@@ChiefSweetsUniverseUpdate
They're not dying off now, they won't breed at all. I hear some chirping but no eggs. They all congregate around the small heatpad I got from the local pet store. It's fucking infuriating because I can't find anything about warming crickets without spending alot of money. I have egg crates for them now. How do I heat them?
Great video mate!
Thank you!
Very good video, but there are questions I just don't get answers to neither in the Internet nor from people working in the stores. How long does it take for crickets to recover from the transport (dehydration, lack of food, stress), and how long should I let that egg container in the box? I never see crickets actually laying eggs (they are fast as hell and seem to notice when I enter the room, and yes, I tried showering beforehand). Should I let the egg container in the box for a week and then transfer it, although I do not know, if there are eggs at all in the egg box? I wish, there was a picture or table with the life cycle of a cricket and how long it takes from mating to egg deposition.
What luck, a cricket colony video too 😂
Hitting marketplace for your spare tanks right now is the cheapest place to get them since the standard is a buck a gallon 😊
Happy to help!
Nice to meet you! Excuse me for posting from Japan.
I understood you to mean putting in woodlice and the like, but will the woodlice breed?
Also, woodlice like humidity, but it seems that crickets can't do well in an environment with too much humidity.
Is it difficult to manage them?
(Sorry if the translation is strange.)
What's a good website to buy the live crickets from?
Pangea reptile
Here when 5.5 gallon tank costs $50 usd
Holy smokes! Haha you can use storage tubs as well
Wdm 70 gallon tank is like 60 bucks at a petco in New Canaan
I bought a 40 gal for 20 on fb marketplace
Here in ph your 50 dollars can have 150 gallons
@@Shortbus-productionswoah. A 29 gallon tank is $89 at petco rn.
My question is how do you feed them to your bearded dragon without them jumping out
You could get a small cricket keeper container and put it in the tank/bin you keep the crickets in with food in the cricket keeper. Leave it a little bit and some crickets will go in and you can close the lid. Cricket keepers have little tubes on the sides and the crickets will climb up in them to be in the dark. U take out the tube and shake it directly into the enclosure. Or, if you have small egg carton pieces, they’ll climb on and they usually won’t jump off as u pick it up and bring it into the reptile enclosure. Then u can just shake the carton in the tank
Mine eat steak, kfc, and pork chops ☝️ They get stronk 💪
How many crickets do you keep in the main enclosure? And when they start to breed / grow, you transfer them over to the main enclosure?
What type of isopods do you have in your tank to eat the cricket waste? Is it just common pillbugs that you find outside?
Yeah those will work I have sandstone isopods
Can you just feed bearded dragon wild caught crickets so you dont have to breed them?
Sorry if this is asked already, but how do you move the baby crickets to the adult bin once they grow up? Just wonder what the easiest method would he expecially if you had hundreds to move from the baby tank to the adult tank.
I dont know if anyone will see this but how does he keep isopods on woth his crickets when isopods need humidity and humidity is dangerous for crickets?
They actually do like humidity not a lot but like 60%. That’s why they die off lots of times is it’s too dry
Nice video. Why do they choose to lay eggs in the container and not the tank substrate? Thanks!
It’s usually is more moist
@ChiefSweetsUniverse thanks for the info! BTW what kind of shelving is that behind you? Where did you get it?
Thanks I got it at home depot
Hey man I love your Videos! Quick question what size Crickets would you recommend buying to start a colony with? Ive been hearing people say start with 3/4 so roughly 5 week. Is this the size you would start with or go more adult?
Yeah that’s a great start you can go adult as well if you want. I usually start with adult or pre adult. So almost adults
Do you keep a separate water source outside of the food? Or how often do you mist the substrate?
I do not I will most the substrate if it loses moisture
You have amazing videos!
Thank you so much
Okay on the second cage if they grow up can u throw them in the first cage and use the second one for babies again?
Yes
Is it worth breeding crickets when I only have 3 lizards? I have a beardie, a red uro, and a northern bluey
Not really I would just buy them
Thank you, so much good information.how about the water ? What should I do for that ? Thanks
Thank you! For water they will get all there hydration from the carrots and romaine lettuce
My container with the cricket eggs keeps growing mold and none of them hatch. Any suggestions on preventing mold?
Too wet so maybe have a little dryer substrate
What is a good place to keep the soil with eggs? I can’t think of a very warm spot to keep them other than top of tank.
A closet would work
Eggs - check
Babies - check
Growing babies - disappears??
If that makes sense, I get them to about pinhead size then they just disappear and idk what I am doing wrong?😢 otherwise video helped a TON!
Happy to help! Did you secure the top with tape? They can climb the glass as babies and escape. Or older crickets eat them
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse they are in a plastic tub (very big) with tape and no adults🧐
Is any isopod ok ? Was also wondering if you had a bioactive bearded dragon cage? Would love to know what isopods you would need for them
Yeah I use any ones I have left. Any will work fine
Blue and purple powdered isopods and common springtails.
Everything was going fine till I did the rinse and repeat part. Drowned all the poor pinheads during the rinse cycle
Petco 10 gallon glass tank 15$
Very nice!
Do you ever change the egg cartons?
Yeah about every 6 months
@@ChiefSweetsUniversethats a long time
I own crickets and the carton are nasty after a week
Can you use regular soil ?
Yes
So it wouldn’t work if I just let them hatch in the 10g with the adult crickets? Wouldn’t they just lay the eggs n the substrate n be good?
It could but the babies get killed off more.
So the crickets wont lay in the substrate only in sandwich container? or both?
They usually will always go on the sandwich container but you’ll have some stragglers do it in the soil.
How many isopods do u put in there for the crickets?
At least 20
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse thank u for responding back!!!
Hi, I live in Indonesia and I dont know whats the substitude for top soil, the one we have here have compost etc, can I use reptisoil, excavator clay and reptisand mix for my bearded dragon?
Yes reptisoil excavation clay and reptisand will work
Could i use play sand and top soil for the cricket's
Yes!
So everything I have read online says that if you put isopods and springtails with crickets, the crickets will eat them all. Is this true? I only have 25 isopods to start, so I'm kind of nervous to "test" it.
Definitely not true at all. Maybe if they starved them but sometimes I wonder if the isopods eat the crickets up haha. Buy I breed my isopods for my other tanks in the crickets bins
Do you let your bearded dragon explore around your home? I've been letting my BABY bearded dragon roam around our apartment living room (we vacummed and removed unsafe objects) for 20 minutes a day, since I know they need to bask in their enclosure for 12 hrs under UVB. He is in a 40 gallon tank.
That’s sounds perfect! Let them get that roaming time
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse Thank you! That gives me peace if mind. Do you do paid consultations where I can call you and ask you questions for a fee? (I'm not a scammer, btw).
Hi chief,
I really want to convert my leopard gecko tank to bioactive, but I was not sure if my wooden tank would start to rot. If it is possible could you please make a tutorial on how to do it. thanks for all the videos
Gotcha I have some bioactive wooden enclosures. I sealed them with sanded grout then drylock they are holding up perfect
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse thank you
Can i use crickets from petsmart to breed?
Yes
So i am getting a bearded dragon and i am stressing on how to keep my crickets alive and where to keep them
You can keep them in a cricket keeper and I have a guide on how to keep them alive as well
How frequently do you swap out the tape so they don't escape?
Never usually a one and done
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse good to know! Also was curious if the isopods need soil or not.
So the same soil for both the cricket cage and the baby laying tub?
Yes
@ChiefSweetsUniverse I don't know what I'm doing wrong but my crickets keep dying idk if it's too much moisture or what but I've tried twice now with 120 crickets each time. I feed them the romaine lettuce. I used top soil and play sand. It ended up getting small little white look alike worms both times. Help!!
I noticed you use leaves. What kind do you use?
Pecan leaves from my backyard
Hi Chief Thank you for your reply! Do you have to sanitize the leaves before you use them?
Will they eat bell peppers?
Yes they definitely
Can i breed them in a plastic tote?
Yes
Good👍
Thank you
Hi I was wondering if you wanted to see some videos of my bearded dragon🙂
If you have a insta post them and tag me 😁
Ok
I did not know that you can put isopods in with the crickets!
Yup! In the wild they live side by side lots of time too so it’s replicating the wild
Super difficult !!
I give up !!