Raising Banded Crickets Bioactively in 2024!
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2024
- I raise Banded Crickets (Grylloides sigillatus) in a Bioactive enclosure. I have been raising these crickets as live food in this enclosure for more than a year and a half. It is an extremely easy way to raise your own crickets as a live feeders for reptiles, amphibians, and other pets! This method greatly reduces any odors (it smells mostly like forest soil), and I vastly prefer it over traditional methods of culturing crickets.
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I never attempted breeding crickets before but found your videos and liked the idea of non smelly crickets so decided to try this. About a month ago i set up my bin and just bought 25 small crickets (dont know the species) and put in the bin. 2 weeks later i heard my first chirp. Tonight, when going to mist the enclosure, about a month after setting it up, i noticed i had teeny tiny cruckets. I havent been that excited in a while lol. So far this seems to be working great for me! Hopefully the babies grow up and don't die off on me. Thanks so much for the tutorial videos! 😀
I am glad to hear it is going well for you so far! I hope you continue to have success!
A couple of inquiries:
1. How do you maintain springtail population whilst cleaning out substrate?
2. What kind of heater can go on a plastic bin like that, safely? All the ones I have ever purchased always say "for use on glass only".
- with these temps and moisture levels, if I replace up to 75% of the substrate, the springtail population bounces back quickly.
- use a heater at your own risk, of course. Personally, I use pads like this: #ad amzn.to/454dVuW
@@Aquarimax good to know! Thank you
very nice setup, those banded crickets seem to be thriving. Thanks Rus and happy Friday.
Thanks Sean, happy Friday to you!
I love Bioactive feeder tubs!
Me too!!
Answered my question before I could even ask it! I was excited to see this update video after hearing about it from the live stream (that I missed) and here you are already! Really appreciate all you do thanks again Russ
Delighted to hear that my timing was so good! BTW, your shirt is on the way!
So excited to see an update! I've had trouble with getting pinheads to hatch and live personally.
Hopefully this method works for you as well as it has for me 👍🏼
Going to try this today. Omw to expo now..... Thanks so much Rus!
Happy new year Rus, hope you and your family are doing well. Could it be time to update the isopod keeping guide with your renowned knowledge? Would also love to see the blue death feigning beetles again at some point
Both great ideas! Happy New Year to you!
Great information
Thank you!
Definitely have to give this a shot. Haven't had any luck with crickets
Banded crickets are hardier than house crickets, and this method seems to work well with them!
Yes sir, what a good video thanks
Glad to know it is helpful!
@@Aquarimax I got a question will mealworms do good in it
@@madmax566 they might…but I wouldn’t be surprised if they ate cricket eggs
My guess with the isos and crickets is the powder isopod is very protein hungry.. I bet you they were eating crickets. Im not ever going to crickets ever again (i just dont like them 😅) but i still love learning. Thanks for the awesome video!
I had free ones of these crickets in my old house all the time. They are PROLIFIC breeders. Got a lizard that likes to eat a lot of them? Good if you do and decide to raise them. They will need to eat a ton of these things to keep them under control.
I saw these crickets roaming around outside in Southern California when I visited a few years ago.
@@Aquarimax oh no! They are pesky things. Protect your crops. They will eat just about any kind of plant. Sometimes they will eat each other too if they are hungry enough.
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Funny, I bought such tiny crickets 2 weeks ago!
Great video and can you please make more beetle content
Ive tried alot of different ways to breed crickets, without much success, ill give this way a go and fingers crossed
This way is my favorite method (and I have used various methods), let me know how it goes for you!
@@Aquarimax Yeah I will do, I have got them to breed before, several times but I can't get them past the 2nd or 3rd instar which is really annoying.
@@seansspoods9521 I have seen that in the past with too
much humidity or not enough heat. Fingers crossed! 🤞
@@Aquarimax I'll definitely be having a go mate, cheers 👍🏻
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Thank you for this video. What crickets did you start your colony with? Did you just start with some random ones? Im at the point i could benefit raising my own. :)
I started with banded crickets (Grylloides sigillatus) I ordered from Josh’s Frogs. 👍🏼
@@Aquarimax thank you! I really appreciate the information on these. I find your videos to be very helpful. Happy Friday and New Year!
@@jeanniewilson8015 Thank you, and Happy New Year to you!
Crickets are like the Chickens of the Insect World
Indeed they are! They are a staple food around the world. they are easy to raise, and they both have drumsticks 😂 🍗
Why 🦗 must be so cute?
When you harvest for size how do you separate?
I generally don’t do that in large numbers, but if I did, I would use containers with various sizes of mesh on the bottom to sort them.
What temperature do you have the heat mats set to?
I’ll have to check again, I think the larger one is near 100 F (but since it is on the side, the crickets aren’t sitting directly on it) and the smaller one is somewhat cooler.
How do I warm them? I have an 80L tub with about 2 inches of vermiculite as the substrate and a 4"×10" mesh hole for ventilation. I have a small heatpad but it's not enough, it's winter in Australia and recently to temperature started dropping to 10°c at night. They chirp sometimes but they've beem mature for about 2 weeks and I haven't seen any breeding and the egg container is empty.
You may need a bigger heat pad. In the winter, i use ne in each side wall of the bin.
@@Aquarimax A bigger one is arriving next week, I'll try that.
Not gonna lie man, I ended up with some bandeds not too long ago and they were brutal loud and obnoxious lol, if my tarantulas didn't eat them, i would have to hunt them down and feed them to my fish or they would keep me up all night lol. They didn't just chirp like regular crix, it was constant and ridiculous lolololol
I have found it very interesting how some people have quieter banded, while others have loud ones. There may be different species sold as banded crickets, because mine are far quieter than house crickets. 🤣
@@Aquarimax No, I heard yours in the background lol, maybe I don't mean loud, but just obnoxious lol.
Regular crix go chirp...............................chirp chirp...................................chirp..............................chirp chirp
These things go. chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirpchirpchirpchirpchirpchirpchiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiichirpchirpchirpchirp.....lmao
@@jdssurf I see what you mean. These have a more constant chirp pattern
Heat tape?
I use heat mats, but heat tape could work too.
@Aquarimax ah those UTH looked like tape lol