Hey let me know how this looks and if I should change anything. I bought 100 for 3 bucks. If anything I can just feel them to the cham if they don't reproduce lol.

You're at the easy part. Just take the laying container out every few days and keep it covered til they hatch. Don't let the soil dry out. I found the hard part was growing the pinheads into something usable. Seemed to take forever.

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How will I know if there is eggs in it and how long do the eggs take to hatch?

UGH...I HATE crickets. LOL!!! I am in the same process Loribeth. Except I have 1000! I used two planting containers that I had and placed them in the tank. I'm going to remove them in about a week (?) and place them in an incubator tub. Wish me luck (as I do to you!!) BLEH! *shivers*

If you see the females with the long ovipositor in the dish. They are laying eggs in the soil by sticking the stem in. If you lift the container you'll see on the sides there are eggs that look like small rice.
I forget exactly how long till they hatch.

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leahbrd oh my. I dunno. but I figured Chams eat like 10-15 a day, and the shop that sells them here is only open every other day. So we would be out one day I see it coming lol. We will see I guess. Let me know what you do and I'll let you know what I do!

It is best to switch the laying container out every few days even if you don't see anyone in it. There is no saying that the females didn't lay eggs when you weren't looking. You should also have a couple more tanks going. One for the eggs, and one for the pinheads. If you heat the pinhead tank with an under tank heater and keep them constantly eating, they will grow much faster. When they are kept at room temp, they take forever to grow.

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Oh ok, good info. thanks. I'll do that.

I currently have 2 tanks going with "nesting containers" and I'll remove them tomorrow to incubate. Hopefully while they are hatching I can get two more containers going to double up.
I swear that the crickets eat more than any of my reptiles! I feed them the same amount of food that I feed my uros (3) and its literally ALL gone within hours! I refill every day. Hopefully this keeps them all fed, full and fat! :-) I purchased them from flukers and have had a great experience so far. Hardly any of them have died. Getting them out of the box into the tank was the absolute worst experience. I squeeled more that day than I have since I was four. :-/

Hehe. Look I have egg layers! And I'll do that with the warmth. Also, I read that they lay 100 eggs approximately their entire life. And usually die after depositing them all. They either lay about 5 or 10 a day until they laid them all, or all at once. So when they die you know they laid 100. I think I'm going to remove mine because I have 2 dead females. That's 200 eggs! Haha. Anyway here is the pic of my egg layers. OH! and their little egg laying stick things were left in the egg layer dirt and I was wondering if anyone knows if that's normal? Okay here's the pic of my cricket eggs and egg layers!

If you look closely at the top middle of the dish theres a egg laying thingy stuck. The top is like a clear whitish color.