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Cleaning Cricket Container
Thread starter Puterguru
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#1
Is there an easy method to cleaning this thing out or separating the food? I read how y'all guys make clean yours daily and what not but when I open mine up there are crickets all over the place. Poop, pee and whatever else on the lesser and in the food containers. Would honey to go with just Dubia's but my little guy loves his crickets. I don't come across how I could actually clean the container without actually transferring the crickets to another container? I'grand confused. I have my crickets in i of the large containers and vented if this helps.
#two
Gotta sweep everything to one corner and then take it out
#3
I put a piece of paper towel downward and cut it in half and put the egg cartons on 1 side and put the food on the other. Then I replace the food every 2 days and simply have out the paper towel. But if the cage gets to the point where I accept to completely clean it and so I use another container
#4
I just buy enough crickets for 2 weeks then at the end I clean it as the new crickets go far. and when I say clean I mean wash.
#5
I also only get enough crickets for a couple weeks. I go on them in a cricket keeper and merely pull out the little nutrient containers regularly and wash those. If I notice dead bodies I pluck those out with a long tweezers. Sometimes I become lucky and notice all the crix are in their tubes. I will then pull the tubes out and place in a ziplock bag so that I tin dump out all the waste and wipe information technology down. Then I put them dorsum in. I wash the whole thing out when it goes empty.
#6
I have my crickets in a large rubbermaid. When it comes time to make clean (every two days) I move all egg crate and toilet newspaper rolls to an empty rubbermaid. I take the food and water gel out and then I tilt the rubbermaid with the crickets over the empty one and apply my paw to encourage the crickets to jump into the empty container. I then dump out all waste product and expressionless, clean with hot water, dry out, and then motion crickets and everything else back into their home. I know every two days may exist a pain just I accept the organization down and it has cut my dead loss big fourth dimension. Plus it helps keep the smell downwards.
I was thinking the other solar day about trying to make a shifting cricket container (kinda like a shifting litter box)with small screen on the bottom and so I would place the container within another i. That way the poop would fall through and all I would have to do is remove dead and wipe down ane half at a time with a wet paper towel. Non certain if that would work merely who knows. lol I am always thinking of ways to make thing easier...
#seven
I personally similar to completely make clean out the cricket cage in one case a week. I keep their nutrient in h2o bottle lids that are easy to replace every day.
To avert cricket escapes, when I clean, I put everything in the bathtub before I showtime transferring the crickets to another container. I throw out and supersede all of the old egg carton and newspaper tubes. I launder the container with a mild dish lather, rinse well, and set everything back upward.
I observe that if you lot use a metal mixing basin to hold the crickets while cleaning, the crickets can't climb the sides, and information technology's really easy to dump them back into their cage.
#9
Cheers for all the replies...
I retrieve role of the problem may be the quantity I am ordering. 500 at a time from BackwaterReptiles.com. That'southward the minimum you tin order merely it's shipped overnight and the price was proficient. Trimming downward to 250 might aid? It's just that after 2 or iii days I go to put my hand in there to clean/change food water and those guys are all over the place. I tin can't even clean because there are and so many crickets at the bottom. If I effort to motion the egg crate stuff to 1 side so that I can clean well now that is stacked high enough and then that the niggling guys commencement jumping out of the container so... I really need to discover a better system. Kilime (my cham) loves his crickets or otherwise I would get rid of them all together.
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