Has any one had any problem with these?
We had aloud of escapee crickets where we used to live and they did my head in! so when we moved here i said no more crickets around the house, so we got a cricket keeper!........


Then i was finding crickets around the new house and hearing them in the bathroom, i hunted them all down like a mad man and got every one of them! I have a spare viv, so i stuck the cricket keeper in the viv, and this morning found 7 crickets in the viv! They are getting out the cricket keeper! AAAAAAAAAAAA any one else had this problem?
Jake

i had the same problem with cricket keepers...there cr@p imo

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Yeah, even large crickets can usually get out of the large circular hole in the corner (if your has one of them), or under the transparent flap on the top. Small crickets can just walk straight out. I put a jay-cloth between the rim of the keeper and the lid - that keeps them in!

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Buy a tall tupperware container, cut a hole in the top with a hot knife and glue in some mesh...one cricket container! And they wont escape!!

yea then when you open it to get them out they jump and fly every where, i have tried that idea! its because we dont buy like one tub of crickets, we buy the sack load because of the amount of lizards we have to feed!

they're a nightmare!

pick up a cheap fish tank or see if anybody is giving one away on freecycle. Only way i could stop them escaping, plus they all like to congregate in the tubes and turn into cricket jam.

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If you have the space use a plastic laundry basket. Drill air holes in the top and use some fabric mesh between the lid and the base to be sure they can't escape. It works a treat but like I said you need space for it.

I added the fabric mesh at a later date hence why not in this pic.

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Just get a plastic container that is big enough. If it's tall they wont jump out when you open it. If you are buying a sack of crickets then it is too many for even the large cricket container which is probably why you are getting so many escapees, they squash themselves out!

i have many a cricket keeper for my many crickets, bought them specially for when i moved here but they dont work!

Yep, cricket keepers are pants for keeping crickets, i use mine for baby locust. I keep my crickets in (empty) mineral water bottles and have had no escapes since. But it's not really practical for hundreds of crix. I get 100 at a time and split them into 5 bottles.

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