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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.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Old Plastic Scrubbers
  • Potatoes
  • Water
  • Cotton Balls And Swabs
  • Cricket Boxes
  • Water
  • yogurt lids
  1. Step 1

    Put crickets into a cricket box.

  2. Step 2

    Cut a quarter of a potato.

  3. Step 3

    Place in box.

  4. Step 4

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

  5. Step 5

    Fill lid with water.

  6. Step 6

    Place in box.

  7. Step 7

    Keep crickets in a cool, shady place.

  8. Step 8

    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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