Thank you!! Glad to have a likeminded person stop by 😄 They may be ''only'' insects to many, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve the same respect as all the other animals out there 💖
Comming back to this video to tell you thanks for helpingme back then (a year ago) with locust care. My oldest are 9 months old and I just had over fifty babies. I don't feed them to lizards, I keep them as pets and the older they get, the tamer they are, they bring me so much joy 🦗❤ And yes, they do have little personalities, and I love when they just sit there hugging or holding hands lol
That's brilliant!! I love that you see them the way I do, they have little minds of their own it's amazing. I'm the same with my dubia roaches too, I breed em for a purpose but always feel somewhat bad when feeding them off. I'd get overrun if I didn't though. Thanks for coming back! Made me smile. You'll have to keep an eye out it may be a few months but I'm actually hoping to create 2 proper setups for locust and dubia roaches (seperately) to breed them in more spacious and optimal conditions and give myself a chance to properly film them doing what they do, see if we can't make something good of it 😄
@@sg_animals. Oh yay! I will watch that definatly! Funny you mention dubia roaches, I wanted go get some aswell, but had to read up in them and since then there aren't any in my local pet store anymore but I wanted bugsss so got me superworms and they are fascinating! Got some more locust offspring and had to stop, my terrarium is too small for 80, so I seperated them, some are in my old hamster cage (All adults, they can't brrak out). I really would love to show u my setup, if u want to add me on facebook. I make vids and memes. I love my hoppers to death lol My YT channel is dead for years.
Hey, That's not a bad idea to be fair, on the other vid I covered what to feed the insects. But might make one on what the benefits of different feeder insects give 🤔 Thanks!!
Hi great video, 🙏 thank you. We are struggling to get our Leo gecko to eat, and are trialing different sized locusts. Are the smaller locust ok to go in with the larger ? Tia . Justin
Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it! :) Yeah took me a while to notice aha, think the 2 most recent videos are much more levelled out, let me know what you think?
Dude, when are you gonna try a self maintaining bio habitat again?? I'm really interested in this, if you find a system that works, I'd be interested to try it myself 👍.
In general? I'm currently building a bio active gecko enclosure that'll cover many aspects of self maintaining! 😄 But do you mean locust wise? Because if it's locust then that's gonna be a while away I'm afraid, I don't have much space anymore haha
Is the bug gel all you feed them? My only concern is the lack of nutrients, it's not very substantial and they won't be passing much onto whoever you feed them too. Whereas if you feed em spinach, cabbage, kale instead then they'll be full of goo vitamins to pass onto the consumer! :)
I used giant orange woodlice, tropical greys and dwarf white woodlice. Might try this again in the future with a MUCH larger enclosure. That was probably the downfall, locust not having the space to escape the humidity the moss releases
I'll definitely try again in the future, be a cool project and save a tonne of money breeding my own, just need to find the right set up and create some space! :) Hopefully by the end of this year
Sand is normally recommended for keeping, some people use oats which I tried once, but found they were a pain for retaining moisture, causing raised humidity and then producing a mite outbreak. So I'd definitely recommend sand if you intend to keep them long term.
They're pretty docile, and don't go very far, any escapees just crawl a little then stop. Even the adults with full wings, only seem to flutter a little, then stop and settle, I guess as they've never really flown in captivity, they don't really get it 🤔🤷🏻♀️😄. They're super easy to recapture 👍. Also, locusts can only cause havoc if released en masse. And even if that happened, in this country it would be a temporary irritation, as they would not survive our autumn temperatures, let alone full winter. As they need to be kept pretty warm, to digest their food.
Youre so sweet with what u said about not wanting to cause pain to them and treating them with respect . 🙏🏻❤️
Thank you!! Glad to have a likeminded person stop by 😄 They may be ''only'' insects to many, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve the same respect as all the other animals out there 💖
What a great video!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 😄
Comming back to this video to tell you thanks for helpingme back then (a year ago) with locust care. My oldest are 9 months old and I just had over fifty babies. I don't feed them to lizards, I keep them as pets and the older they get, the tamer they are, they bring me so much joy 🦗❤
And yes, they do have little personalities, and I love when they just sit there hugging or holding hands lol
That's brilliant!! I love that you see them the way I do, they have little minds of their own it's amazing. I'm the same with my dubia roaches too, I breed em for a purpose but always feel somewhat bad when feeding them off. I'd get overrun if I didn't though.
Thanks for coming back! Made me smile. You'll have to keep an eye out it may be a few months but I'm actually hoping to create 2 proper setups for locust and dubia roaches (seperately) to breed them in more spacious and optimal conditions and give myself a chance to properly film them doing what they do, see if we can't make something good of it 😄
@@sg_animals. Oh yay! I will watch that definatly! Funny you mention dubia roaches, I wanted go get some aswell, but had to read up in them and since then there aren't any in my local pet store anymore but I wanted bugsss so got me superworms and they are fascinating! Got some more locust offspring and had to stop, my terrarium is too small for 80, so I seperated them, some are in my old hamster cage (All adults, they can't brrak out). I really would love to show u my setup, if u want to add me on facebook. I make vids and memes. I love my hoppers to death lol My YT channel is dead for years.
This helped so much! Not a lot of locust info as feeder insects!
Hey,
That's not a bad idea to be fair, on the other vid I covered what to feed the insects. But might make one on what the benefits of different feeder insects give 🤔 Thanks!!
@@sg_animals. I'd love to see that vid!
I want them as pets, the locusts that is
Go for it! I'm thinking about making a setup soon to breed them in!
Hi great video, 🙏 thank you.
We are struggling to get our Leo gecko to eat, and are trialing different sized locusts. Are the smaller locust ok to go in with the larger ? Tia . Justin
Great video, maybe tourn the music a little down
Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it! :) Yeah took me a while to notice aha, think the 2 most recent videos are much more levelled out, let me know what you think?
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I’m planning on getting locusts when I’m older
Go for it! They're fascinating little creatures. And surprisingly colourful!
Dude, when are you gonna try a self maintaining bio habitat again?? I'm really interested in this, if you find a system that works, I'd be interested to try it myself 👍.
In general? I'm currently building a bio active gecko enclosure that'll cover many aspects of self maintaining! 😄 But do you mean locust wise? Because if it's locust then that's gonna be a while away I'm afraid, I don't have much space anymore haha
@@sg_animals. yup, locusts was what I was referring to 😁
I miss the 1980s migratory brown locusts
thanks for the advice
Glad to help :)
I bought locust kept plastic container feed them bug gel once a day
Is the bug gel all you feed them? My only concern is the lack of nutrients, it's not very substantial and they won't be passing much onto whoever you feed them too. Whereas if you feed em spinach, cabbage, kale instead then they'll be full of goo vitamins to pass onto the consumer! :)
Gave them to birds yesterday
What species of wood lice did you use?
I used giant orange woodlice, tropical greys and dwarf white woodlice. Might try this again in the future with a MUCH larger enclosure. That was probably the downfall, locust not having the space to escape the humidity the moss releases
Would be great to see another attempt, not much out there on properly keeping locust or breeding them
I'll definitely try again in the future, be a cool project and save a tonne of money breeding my own, just need to find the right set up and create some space! :) Hopefully by the end of this year
I want to do this on a large scale like 1 acre any info on the setup
Thanks
1... acre? What's going on here? 😂
And thanks
what do d to put on the bottom
Sand is normally recommended for keeping, some people use oats which I tried once, but found they were a pain for retaining moisture, causing raised humidity and then producing a mite outbreak. So I'd definitely recommend sand if you intend to keep them long term.
I heard they were edible?
I wouldn't recommend it 😂
Bro can you at least send a direct link?!?!??
But the locust escape
These ones don't aha
They're pretty docile, and don't go very far, any escapees just crawl a little then stop. Even the adults with full wings, only seem to flutter a little, then stop and settle, I guess as they've never really flown in captivity, they don't really get it 🤔🤷🏻♀️😄.
They're super easy to recapture 👍.
Also, locusts can only cause havoc if released en masse. And even if that happened, in this country it would be a temporary irritation, as they would not survive our autumn temperatures, let alone full winter. As they need to be kept pretty warm, to digest their food.
Excellent video, love the respect as well. I have a tree frog and a gecko. This video has been very helpful. Keep it up
Thanks! I'll have to do another video sometime soon on locust! hope your tree frog and gecko are getting on okay 😄
I thought locusts have wings