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Re: crickets as food source
In Hawaii we have at leat one species of fly that is parasitic on
crickets. So far I have only found them parasitising males. I figure they
detect their host by listening for the mating call of the crickets. An
because only males chirp, only males get infested. Was neat watching a
huge vermiform tachinid larvae emerge from the abdomen of the crickets. WE
also have a huge black field cricket. I have used them for pin head
culture (when I was fooling arund with poison dart frogs in Manoa
Valley). I would collect a bunch place them into a 5 gallon plastic
bucket, with about 3-4 inches of sand onthe bottom, I fed them cabbage,
dog food, and rabit food. I would place a bunch of scrunched up newspaper
into the bucket to serve as a refugium for the pin head crickets. When I
needed to harvest them I would just shake the newspaper into another
bucket (the crickets can't climb the sides) and asperate all that I
needed. My set up was covered with a window screen that was held in place
with a bungi cord. They were noisy. Not the sort of thing you want to
have outside your bedroom window. I always hated when they would get loose
in the house aznd be chirping all night long. In Honolulu it was allmost
always warm enough for them to chirp at night...
MTF
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Bob Meyer wrote:
> Some crickets crawled into my fish room last week. I smooshed a couple of them and got ready to pour them into the tank. Out of one of them came a parasitic worm that must have been 4 inches long. Someone told me that it is a horsehair worm. Supposedly not harmful to fish. Anyway, I am steering clear of crickets as fish food. Store bought ones are probably cleaner..bob
>
> >>> relli at aye_net 10/13/00 02:14PM >>>
> One of the best things you can feed your crickets is flake food! Use the highest
> protein content you can get your hands on and this will "gut load" the crickets
> allegedly passing on the nutrition to the fish. One caveat would be that they
> are high in protein, but also have lots of chitin which I believe is not digestable
> (sp?). I remember from my days with reptiles that there was concern about raising
> chameleons on all cricket diets since they were judged to contain little digestible
> material. I guess they would make good snacks.
>
> Scott
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