Small Brown Crickets (1mm-3mm)

[demon_doggz]

I am new to the whole live food feeding... And was just wondering how people keep their crickets. I currently feed my White's Tree Frogs small brown crickets (1mm-3mm) and need help with where to keep the crickets as I really don't want them escaping lol.
I looked at getting a cricket keeper, but I fear that the crickets would escape through the air holes at the top :-s Or what about keeping them outside? In the shed maybe? I read brown crickets need to be keep warmish tho, would the shed be too cold?
Has anybody got any suggestions to help a newbie? Or if anybody has kept crickets of a similar size in a cricket keeper... Did they escape? lol.
Thanks.

[scalez]

Hey, I just bought a cheap plastic goldfish tank from a petshop, you can buy a storage bin and drill air holes through, my tank has tiny holes on top the crickets can't escape from these as they cannot jump that high, if you're worried about them climbing up you can put sticky tape or Vaseline around the edge of the tank as the cricket's can't hold onto these. you should feed the crickets with vegetables and fold up a paper towel and wet it for water and place it in the corner of the tank, they can't drown this way. It's too cold to keep them outside, i keep them inside in a cupboard in the house, because they can smell. i have 3 or 4 cut up pieces of egg carton in there and a few toilet paper rolls, just empty the crickets into the tank and let them do their thing. To remove the crickets for feeding i just pick up the egg cartons with tweezers of course (the crickets are on the carton) i then put the carton inside a plastic tub ( like the ones that you buy crickets in from the shops.) I put some calcium powder into the tub also, i shake the crickets around in the tub so they get dusted with calcium and then i empty them into the vivarium.
if you do the transferring crickets from the keeper to the tub outside, there's no chance of any crickets escaping into the house.
sorry for the long post, but i hope that helped.

[demon_doggz]

No, that is brilliant... The more help the better. Thank you.

[REDDEV1L]

I'm keeping my pinheads in a new small faunarium and so far I don't think any have managed to get out. Last yr I kept them in old ones and they climbed up the scratches etc and were all over the garage lol

I did give them plenty bug gel in a pop bottle lid but it didn't work out so well so now I just put a few small pieces of bug gel in and let them get on with it, but I'm giving them really small chunks of potato and carrot every cpl of days so they should be fine.