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[HamsterCrazy24]

My feeder crickets will not stop eating each other! I never have more that 30 in a 5 gallon tank, and they had been doing fine, until I got my last box of crickets they all started eating each other! That hasn't happened before! I feed them lettuce, tomato, melon, spinach, cricket cubes, bug gel (for water) and any other left over fruit of veggies. I started with 30 crickets a few days ago, and I'm down to 5 now, I even moved them to a 10 gallon tank. I come in every morning to find crickets with legs and heads ripped off. This is very gross but they eat all the insides until all that is left is the exoskeleton. 

 

I have never had this happen with other crickets just these. Does this batch just have a taste for other crickets? 

[Sarahs~Hamsters]

My feeder crickets will not stop eating each other! I never have more that 30 in a 5 gallon tank, and they had been doing fine, until I got my last box of crickets they all started eating each other! That hasn't happened before! I feed them lettuce, tomato, melon, spinach, cricket cubes, bug gel (for water) and any other left over fruit of veggies. I started with 30 crickets a few days ago, and I'm down to 5 now, I even moved them to a 10 gallon tank. I come in every morning to find crickets with legs and heads ripped off. This is very gross but they eat all the insides until all that is left is the exoskeleton.

I have never had this happen with other crickets just these. Does this batch just have a taste for other crickets?

This is not unusual. Crickets require a high protein diet with sufficient water and food and areas to hide in the enclosure. U can feed them tropical fish food or ground up dog and cat food too. They also need stable humidity at around 60-75% which is good for breeding as well. What are they being fed to btw? They also may have been in the wrong conditions and diet before u got them

Edited by HamsterOfficial, 06 June 2019 - 09:43 PM.