I am so sick of buying worms! Does anyone know how to get superworms to reproduce? For that matter, my cricket farm is utterly useless. It is the most unreproductive farm on the planet. The crickets live for a while, I feed them to my geckos, and then there are no more. No additional generations whatsoever.

Any ideas?

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make sure you have a pot of soil in the place your breeding them in but big crickets like 15 or 20 I would say but dont feed those to your lizards buy smaller ones and feed those to them buy about 50 -60 small ones now remember itll take awhile to get them going it takes 9 days for crickets to hatch and a couple weeks to get big
make sure you have
crickets feed
cricket quencher
soil to lay there eggs
things for them to hide under n crawl in
about 80 85 degree tempeture and patience
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-chris

for worms I suggest buying giant worms about a 1000 put them in oatmeal
buy your worms from reptilefood.com

Chris,

From your first message, do I understand correctly that while the large crickets are being 'left alone' so they can go through a few reproduction cycles, that I should be feeding smaller crickets to my geckos? They are used to the larger ones, and it seems equally feasible to keep to separate, large cricket populations: one that will be the farm, the others as a temporary stash for feeding the geckos in the mean time. Or, is there a reason that I should feed smaller ones for that time period? Sorry to be persnickedy (sp), but I always want to get things just right, and I have a lot to learn!

Thanks for the worm advice. I'll order them right away, and invite the Quaker man over.

Jennifer Gal

umm ok hmm well they dont have to be smaller just make sure you have them seperate do not mix them because females can only mate with one male on the other hand males can mate with alot of females so u dont wanna get rid of any
i have mine in one box small and large I only feed small ones because I am breeding the larger ones but if you need larger ones just have them seperate then you dont wanna take any out of the breeding box if any thing add a few in there if you want but NEVER take them out because if you take a female well your out about 100 eggs if you tgake a male you can be out 100000's literally of eggs but
if your gonna have only large crickets have two seperate cages feeding and breeding but also in the feeding cage I would have some food water and soil just in case they wanna lay eggs
i think I fully anwered the question lol

Superworms take a little more work to get them to reproduce than mealworms do. Here's our caresheet link http://reptileguides.herpcenter.com/...-t33.html?t=33
I've been breeding my own for about 6 months. I've found that you need to supply bark or something similiar for them to lay a lot of eggs. They like to lay them in cracks and such.

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Thanks to both of you for throrough replies. I didn't know there were care sheets for bugs-n-such here. But I'm glad there are. It makes life so much easier!

Jennifer

try ordering online. I get 500 crickets at a time, delivered to my house for $20. Get them smaller and feed your critter more at a time, and when they start getting bigger, feed them less. Superworms are good too.

I get everything from Welcome To Worm Man's Worm Farm

Also, here are the caresheets we have on breeding your own.
http://reptileguides.herpcenter.com/insects-f24.html

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