Well..before the plan, tell me if it's silly...

... A mini cricket breeder box with four adult crickets and all the makings of a proper breeding container.

Is it a bad idea?

I want to make my own, but I don't want to be taken over with pinheads.

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The mortality rate of pinheads is high.
I would start with at least 50 adults.

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Mike
"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you." - Mother Teresa

Oh well. I'm just going to continue buying them.

I don't think I could stand having 50 adult crickets.

The nice thing about all of my lizards is that they eat small crickets. So, it's no noise and they don't scare the jeebies out of me.

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-Belle-

I don't know if their available in the states but here their is another type of cricket offered Gryllus bimaculatus they don't chirp at least that loud or even really often (I haven't heard mine in weeks). I switched over to them and am much happier. Their not quite as active but all the herps seem to eat them the same.

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Thanks for the tip. I'm familiar with this cricket by virtue of my boyfriend's parents living on a farm. Every some years, they get a cricket invasion and these fellows decide to move in. They scare me even more than the house cricket!!

According to the article about them on Wikipedia: "This cricket species chirps very loudly." I guess you haven't had that problem!!

I'm going to end up sticking with ordering crickets until I become more comfortable with them. I have gotten better. It used to be very difficult for me to even look at them, but now I'm able to pick them up with the tongs and to clean out their cricket keeper.

I had toyed with the idea of a dubia roach colony, but I'm allergic to roaches so it wouldn't be a smart idea.

Thanks for the tip though, Titus!

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-Belle-

Sorry I gave you the worg species the one I was thinking of is the common black cricket or Gryllus assimilis.

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Figure this each female cricket lays about a 100 eggs before she dies and I didn't have a problem with my pinheads dying. But you have to feed them and take really good care of them just like you would your lizard or they will die.