Critter Mom
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I have been buying feeder crickets at the pet store for my Chinese Firebelly Newts. I have 3 of them, and so I had been buying 30 small crickets at a time and keeping them in a "Kricket Keeper" I bought at the store. The crickets are already gut-loaded, and I continue this at home with the different cricket foods available.
The native species of cricket in Michigan is a black color (unlike the pet store brown ones). I was wondering if I could set free the few crickets I have left over sometimes that mature faster than the others (and are too big for my newts to eat) without it causing ecological problems here if they breed? Would they know how to find their own food and water in the wild on their own? -OR- Has anyone ever tried to sell them back to the pet store once they have started sprouting wings or chirping?
Thank you,
Critter Mom
The native species of cricket in Michigan is a black color (unlike the pet store brown ones). I was wondering if I could set free the few crickets I have left over sometimes that mature faster than the others (and are too big for my newts to eat) without it causing ecological problems here if they breed? Would they know how to find their own food and water in the wild on their own? -OR- Has anyone ever tried to sell them back to the pet store once they have started sprouting wings or chirping?
Thank you,
Critter Mom