How to Keep Crickets Alive in a Cricket Box

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A few crickets left over from your fishing trip can be sustained in your cricket box for a week or so with minimum care.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Old Plastic Scrubbers
Potatoes
Water
Cotton Balls And Swabs
Cricket Boxes
yogurt lids

Step1

Put crickets into a cricket box.

Step2

Cut a quarter of a potato.

Step3

Place in box.

Step4

Put cotton or a plastic scrub sponge into a small lid, like a yogurt lid. This keeps crickets from falling into water and drowning.

Step5

Fill lid with water.

Step6

Place in box.

Step7

Keep crickets in a cool, shady place.

Step8

Remove old potato and replace with a new piece every other day.

Tips & Warnings

Crickets are noisy, so it is best to keep them outside.
Crickets can be fed cornmeal, dog or cat food, or rabbit chow.

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on 11/22/2005 There is a mushroom shaped water holder available for mice and hamsters. I seperated the blue bottom from (orange mushroom) top. Filled top with water and at base of the top, I put a cotton swab and closed the top and bottom together. ( I like this idea of actually seeing how much water is being used ) Then I filled the three spaces in with more cotton. I put food in a dry place (a little box with openings at front ) and a lid that can be taken off. So when I mist it, the food doesn't go bad. I mist it every day. I use a small fish tank (approx. 3 gallons.) I also leave one or two areas where little to no water gets in an is also dark. I use very light ground material. (vermiculite ?) I clean out a 1/3 of the area at a time, so not to disturb the whole nesting area.

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