Pros and cons of raising crickets vs buying them every time?

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thats an interesting thing, people fear of roaches, while rationally they cant climb or jump anywhere near the way crickets can plus they dont make noise :)
 
Cricket cage smells pretty foul and its a lot of maintenance. You can save a fair amount of $ on them if you find a local sports store that carries them for fishing bait. I pay around 4 bucks for 100+ at the place near me. Plus they are bigger and I don't have to wait an eternity for some poor soul to count them all individually, they use a graduated scoop at the bait place. :D
 
find a roach that reaches a good size. look at the temps required to breed them. Usually they are around mid 80's for the warm climate roaches. if they do escape in your house their breeding habits should be slow unless it is summer. this may give you time to get the upper hand on them. i agree though, the thought of a roach investation is gross...although for me they are way better than crickets.
 
Cna't do roaches. My grandmother would never allow it. I don't know if she'll like the crickets either but I'll most likely just be buying them for a week and gut loading them and powedering them. Is it necessary to put powder on them if you gut load them with a food that's supposed to have the same stuff in it?
 
Liz Sagara;4921830; said:
Cna't do roaches. My grandmother would never allow it. I don't know if she'll like the crickets either but I'll most likely just be buying them for a week and gut loading them and powedering them. Is it necessary to put powder on them if you gut load them with a food that's supposed to have the same stuff in it?
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Honestly im not sure, but i would say that powdering is more important than gut loading. at least with powdering you know for sure that the supplements are being consumed by your pet. with gut loading you can't be as sure. did the cricket eat the food you gave it or did he eat the head off that dead cricket in the corner? just my opinion.
 
Maybe my grandmother it out of the ordinary. But if she was presented with the information showing the difference between feeder roaches and pest roaches and the ideas I had regarding breeding the feeder roaches in an inescapable container, she'd go for it. I mean if Grandma is letting you keep the reptile the roaches are a hop skip and a jump away.

Present your case well informed, and she may surprise you.

Then again, it's not my grandmother.

Mike
 
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