dead cricks everywhere !!!!

[reef]

got a bag of 500 cricks for the first time from livefoodwharehouse this week ( arrived mon )just gone to feed animal and nearly all the cricks are dead !!! dint look in yesterday as we have our animals on a fast day on fridays but i had fed them on thurs and watered em soim lost as to why they died
has anyone else lost em this quick ? will contact livefoodwharehouse and let em no methinks

[Lucifus]

Biggest killer of crickets is humidity. If its too high they die. Ive lost 1k in 3 days because of humidity.

[Marinam2]

How long had you had them before they died and how were you keeping them.

Marina

[reef]

about 3 days and they were in a bucket with oats and apple ,
as lucifus said i think it was too humid cos the eggbox was a bit moist
will still let livefood know tho just to check they not got probs

[Marinam2]

You'll know if it was humidity because they will be a very pungent smell of ammonia. I've had it happen to be a few times over the years.

Marina

[reef]

oh well dint smell of ammomnia i dint wanna feed to my pets incase there was sumfin wrong ! do u think i should get in touch with livefood wharehouse then !

[Marinam2]

Does sound a bit odd then, mine live for ages like a whole month before they are eaten and i do not feed or water mine at all.

I would worry about quality, were they at room temp??

Marina

[cooljules]

Originally Posted by reef

about 3 days and they were in a bucket with oats and apple ,
as lucifus said i think it was too humid cos the eggbox was a bit moist
will still let livefood know tho just to check they not got probs

whereof them on there backs? we lost 50% this week, cos of a sudden build up of humidty...not much either

[reef]

Originally Posted by Marinam2

Does sound a bit odd then, mine live for ages like a whole month before they are eaten and i do not feed or water mine at all.

I would worry about quality, were they at room temp??

Marina

yeah they were at room temp although our house is warm and we dont normally have a problem this is the first time we bought from livefoodwharehouse have u had trouble with them before

[Marinam2]

I've never used them. I use Livefood UK and always have since switching from monkfields.

Marina