This is how i got mine setup and i only started last saturday but so far tey havent stopped laying.

Large plastic tank with ventilation through the lid. Heat mat under 1/2 the base and a 60w spot light on the same end. Bran covering floor space with a dish for greens. 1 big container filled with dampened sand in middle and a few sticks in there for climbing. As soon as i put the sand in last weekend the females were staright in laying and since then the randy buggars havent stopped.
Its worked for me and all that was thrown together is minutes as i hadnt really planned on breeding them but thought id give it a go as my lot cost a fortune to feed!

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Still nothing!!!!

This is sooo fustrating! can breed various chams and dragons but cant breed a locust!!!

Temp is currently at 34.2c humidity is a bit high as the sand mosture had evaporated abit.

Thin my next plan will be to turn the box in its side to give a bit of hight and will not keep water as well as the vent hols are in the lid.

Notice that not many people are using egg crates but branches instead....do you know something your not tellin me?

Any other ideas?

I use egg cartons and branches! Egg cartons to hide in and branches to hold on to shed on! I should have some hatching tomorrow/the day after so I'll keep you updated! The temp sounds good and a bit of humidity isn't bad as long as its localised over the sandy area! Other than that, I have no suggestions!

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As for a size comparison adult/hatchling

Here's a link to a thread i made earlier showing how small the hatchlings are compared to a fully grown female locust

Mummy and Baby

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hahaha I bet you're all much more bloody impressed with live food distributors now! I know I would be!!

well its becoming clear why locust are a bit more expensive! However...we have a breakthrough.
Few changes to the enclosure and i think ive cracked it!

Really weird the ones i have at the moment have been at an adult stage for about 2 months now with nothing and all the normal pinky colour. Over the last few days the colours have started appearing and the difference beween male and female is now clear. Think they may just have reached breeding age.

They are 1cm long when they hatch

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2.4 crested geckos + 2 eggs!
2.3 White's tree frogs

nah there a bit smaller that 1cm when born, more like 5-6 mm.

I used to keep the smaller of my bought locusts in a cricket keeper, but i think the new borns could escape.

So last night i moved them into a new home, a plastic stacking box with 1hrs worth of very small hole drilling in the top.

I was surprised to see my little new'uns dark black, i was expecting a light green colour...

I've got a fly mesh over the top of them now and that does the trick!

Most of the babies I get are dark coloured, but there are some really light (off white coloured) ones that appear from time to time! I thought they were just albino! :P

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