For cricket stink??!?!!! I woke up this mornin' and popped off the tub lid and damn near passed out!

I believe it's called getting rid of the cricket eating critters :)

Somehow I knew that was coming.:lol:

I cant say from experience, but several people i know ditched the crickets for roaches. Very similar but just very little smell.

The cure is roaches, a 6 month not cleaned container of roaches has nothing to a week old container of crickets, plus there is normally about a million more roaches then crickets...

Maybe it's the girly girl side of me.... but I think I'd much rather have the escapee cricket running around the house than the escapee roach http://jetpythons.com/stupidcrazy.gif

I know roaches are certainly a better bet, I just can't get those by the ol' lady.

I dont know of any cure for cricket stench except check the tub everyday and remove any dead immediately. When I kept them before switching my geckos over to supers and mealies, I cleaned the cricket tub every other day and it never smelled....

eat plenty of baked beans, chillie, burritos, etc...
and just drown out the stench yourself.
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The easy answer is switch to roaches. I have a few thousand dubia I could send your way :devil:

Ok, cricket smell. Ive been keeping crickets a looooooooong time and noticed a couple things.

They stink. They're gonna stink. Nothing you can do about it aside from cleaning the cage almost daily. But I have noticed a few things that can at least reduce the stink.

Keep it well ventilated. Lots of screening. If its too tight in there the stink seems to fester.

Use a large rubbermaid tub with a big hole cut out and screened over. Not a fish tank. Dont ask me why but for some reason they STINK if kept in fish tanks. Plus the rubbermaids are easier to clean. Very light and you can wipe them down better. That cricket juice seems to get into the silicone at the bottom of a fish tank and just never comes out. Plastic cleans better at least I think so.

For water I wouldnt use sponges or those gel things. I would just use pieces of carrot or potatoe as a food/water source. Sponges build up bacteria very fast and phew!

Obviously remove any dead crickets, uneaten greens, etc ASAP.

Dont overcrowd. Give'em lots of room and you will have less death, less poo and less stink. Most of the cricket bins Ive come across that really smell were way overcrowded.

Dont be afraid to replace your egg cartons if you use them. Once they become peppered with cricket poo pitch'em and start fresh. Egg cartons are dirt cheap.

Watch what you're feeding them. Certain feeds will produce more stink than others. Right now Im using Mazuri cricket diet and its working. It keeps them alive and growing and easy on the nose.

If your colony starts to go south...lots of bad molts, crickets that cant walk right, lotta die offs....pitch it and start fresh.

Get a guinea pig as a pet and keep it next to the cricket cage. It will stink so bad you wont even notice :)

These are just suggestions and maybe you're doing all of the above already. If so, sorry, thats all I got. Nose plugs perhaps?

Just switch over to roaches and tell the 'ol lady they are a new morph of lady bugs. She'll love them!

Dubia are actually quite pretty!

Maybe it's the girly girl side of me.... but I think I'd much rather have the escapee cricket running around the house than the escapee roach http://jetpythons.com/stupidcrazy.gif

My girl feels the same way. If she's sees a cricket running across the floor or hears one its no big deal. She saw a roach ONCE and declared marshal law.

If she sees one more roach me and about 10,000 dubia and lobsters will be looking for new digs.

I do notice that when I clean up the dead or dyin' every day or two the smell is almost nonexistant. Guess I ignored em too long this last time. Never gave a thought to ventilation. OK, I'm back on it.

Oh about those Dubia, you might be hearin' from me sooner than later.:)

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My girl feels the same way. If she's sees a cricket running across the floor or hears one its no big deal. She saw a roach ONCE and declared marshal law.

If she sees one more roach me and about 10,000 dubia and lobsters will be looking for new digs.

I hear ya. I finally got the wife tlked into letting me keep the dubs I got from jeff. but I garauntee she sees just one roach and me and them will be sleeping at jeffs for awhile lol

She saw a roach ONCE and declared marshal law.



Yea I'd have a tough time getting roaches into my house as well. I use mealies..:wamma: No stink, easy to care and taste great!

Roachs don't friggin CHIRP! That's enough for me.

Roachs don't friggin CHIRP!


LOL, that's the part I like about em. Puts me in mind of a warm summer night.
Guess I'll just have to be more dillegent in my cleaning up the dead.

Roachs don't friggin CHIRP! That's enough for me.

Have to agree with you there. Wasn't real fond of the idea of roaches but they are in their container and don't bother me anymore. Only rule is Jeff cleans the container.

I believe it's called getting rid of the cricket eating critters :)

funny but true :lol: