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Old 03-04-2008, 11:07 AM
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how old do the locusts have to be to breed?
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Old 04-04-2008, 12:05 AM
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Adults i belive. I bought 14 adults the other day and put them into a big faunarium. Hopefully will start breeding soon but they are noisy when they see me.
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Old 05-04-2008, 12:38 PM
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I am successfully breeding them too, unless ive been lucky it seems really easy to do. Set it all up about a month ago and ive got babies already.
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Old 05-04-2008, 04:34 PM
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Thanks for that, will get some adults next week, will probably feed the roach colony I got to my gecko's and use that set up to try and breed the locust. DOn't rally do anything with the roaches even though I bought them for food, keep forgetting about them even though the breed like wildfire


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Old 14-04-2008, 04:12 PM
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how do you know they are adults and are sexually mature? with crix i know you can tell with the wings etc churping noise and the actually thing on back of the woman near her butt lol
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Old 14-04-2008, 11:31 PM
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Quality inforamtion! Thanks! You bred anything else?

Do you have any pictures of your locust set up?

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Old 23-04-2008, 11:20 PM
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do the locusts have to have light cant they be kept in a warm airing cuboard?
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Old 04-05-2008, 03:15 PM
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Is it ordinary soil for the egg-laying substrate? Not sand?
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Old 04-05-2008, 10:38 PM
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Do they grow wings?
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Old 04-05-2008, 10:59 PM
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I think they do need a light source and not a lot will happen if you just stick them in an airing cupboard!

Slightly moist sand is the way forward. It's the best thing, as it doesn't collapse when they've laid their eggs in it.

Yeah, when they're full adults they do!
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