Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Baby cricket factory
I learned how to do this here, so just a quick walk around the cricket ranch.
Here's the feeding trough. They're eating cat food and powdered milk. As soon as I placed the lid full of food in the ranch, they started carrying off whole nuggets a third their size and greater in weight.
Crickets are pretty stupid and will drown themselves in any available open water so you have to give them something to suck on.
The egg cartons are just for them to crawl around on and hide under.
The small tub of soil is for the lady crickets to lay their eggs in. The broods arising from the small incubator will carry on the colony. As per the baby crickets born of the large incubator ... well, I'm not going to do anything Pol Pot didn't do, but I won't do it as efficiently and on a much smaller scale.
Labels: diy, pet food, pets, poison dart frogs, recipes
// posted by Erik @ 5/28/2008 06:03:00 PM
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