Live Crickets - Please Help Me

Hi Friends,

Hope all is well and great !

Just wanted to request if anybody here cultures Crickets and if you can kindly sell some to me regularly (either pinheads or a little larger or even the eggs) There are no stores here in India and I will be so very garteful forever if someone can kindly sell me some or even if you can buy some for me ( just a few ) and send them to me... I know I'm asking too much but I really dont have anyone else to help me...

Thanks a lot !
Regards and Care
Kush

You might want to try and post an ad in the International wanted section. You may have better luck that way but I don't know if I have seen any other members from India that would be able to help you.

I would send u crickets eggs if I wasn't positive it is illegal. Just catch your own place them in a tank with an inch of moist soil and raise you own. Put a dozen females in the tank wait a week. Remove the adults and wait a week or two for the eggs to hatch. That what I do if I need pin heads.

BillYannone said:

I would send u crickets eggs if I wasn't positive it is illegal. Just catch your own place them in a tank with an inch of moist soil and raise you own. Put a dozen females in the tank wait a week. Remove the adults and wait a week or two for the eggs to hatch. That what I do if I need pin heads.

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Hi Sir,

Thanks a lot for caring and for the kindness. Sir, this is what I had in mind - to culture my own crickets but I have no experience and couldnt find anything on google too. I even tried to catch / find adult crickets to breed but couldnt locate any here.

Sir, is there any fav food of the Crickets that I can use to attract them. I very rarely see (may be once in a few months) a few crickets near my home so I think they must be somewhere nearby. Will be a great help if you can kindly let me know what food might attract them best and a few guidelines on how to make a trap for them.

Sir, also want to request you to kindly guide me a little on the best way to culture / make them breed - like tank setup, food, conditions etc so that I can breed them myself. Also does the tank / container need to be very tall so that they dont fly / jump out ?

Kindly help me Sir. Thanks again for all the Care...
Lots of Regards
Kush

I suggest you try breeding roaches instead. They are easier to breed than crickets, less likely to escape, and are silent and odorless. Here is some info on breeding Turkistan roaches, but it should be applicable to most roach species: http://www.nyworms.com/turkistancare.htm

I found one insect breeder that claims to sell internationally: http://www.mulberryfarms.com/shipping.htm You could contact them to see if they will ship crickets (legally) to you, and use those crickets to begin a breeding colony. If you do catch enough wild crickets to breed, you will want to give them their own breeding tank. I found you a thread from April that explains how to breed crickets: http://www.caudata.org/forum/showthread.php?t=60813&highlight=breed+crickets . There is more information if you so an online search, but this thread seems to cover the basics.