For any person about to enter into the world of insect eating reptiles the cricket question pops up in most all conversations. So we decided to put this very brief explanation on the web site. Best of all a picture is worth a thousand words. We produce a gut load for crickets! . Add one table spoon per 500 crickets. Replace as needed.. !
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I hope this helps you .....
 10 gal aquarium, wire top, no water bowl, the inside of the aquarium is lined with the egg crate filler that comes with crickets when you order them from a cricket supplier.  Use carrot,  yellow squash, sweet potato any vegetable you can put in the aquarium will be consumed. The diet/gut load  we use has all the mineral diversity needed. Carrot is my vegetable of choice.
The carrot will supply the moisture needed to survive and do well. If you intend to breed, then by all means purchase one of the gravity feed cricket watering devices.
    If you noticed we did not refer to potato as a food source for crickets, here's why. If a potato has been cooled down during storage the starch turns into sugar. Many chain stores purchase potato's from huge wholesalers some of which keep the potato's at cooler temps for long periods of time.
 Never use any soap to clean you aquarium. Water and a clean cloth will take care of any mess left by crickets.
Keep the crickets clean! If you can smell the crickets they need to be cleaned. You should never see any larva in with your crickets. Crickets will shed there exoskeleton and in a few days you will see all these skeletons on the floor of the aquarium. This means they are growing !  A good sign...... 80 to 85 degrees is perfect. No humidity is perfect, but for most this is impossible......
    Hint for winter ! Use an under aquarium heater. Cut 1/2 inch styrofoam to fit around the aquarium and on the wire lid. Use 2 inch packing tape to tape it together. Cut a 2 inch hole in the styrofoam lid for air.