Thank you for those tips! I'm planning to get some FBTs, so these tips will come in handy!

Angelo
One question .How do you keep them from escaping.lol
Seems no matter what i do some always manage to get out.
Ius eleaf litter bedding as I want the pinheads so I have to breed them myself. i use them for my birds who feed them to their chicks. So I feed vegetables of all kinds and put multivitamins in the water source. Still sprinle them with calcium just before feeding. Problem is a pair will
go through 600 to a 1000 crickets in one clutch!!
They sometimes will reject crickets so I have to have wax and meal worms also and again they must be tiny.
What a chore lol
gary

I put them in a ten gallon tank with a screen top and I use foam innsulation the kind that looks like a roll of tape. I tape the sides of the tank going all around so when I put back the screen top it has a tight seal just a note I use adult size crickets I do see one or two crawling around my house sometimes but I think that they are escaping from the other tank that I keep my herps in that mesh is a little bit bigger than the one in the cricket tank

What's the trick for encouraging breeding? My crickets seem to be thriving and there's moist, diggable substrate in the bottom but I never see any babies.

I bought some really large sized ones this time hoping that they'd be more ripe for breeding. That sounds kind of strange...