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I got my crickets in a cage, now, how do I catch them & get them to my lizard2007-11-24 2:00:06

I bought crickets to feed my anole and I can keep them alive and gut load them and the anole likes them fine. Catches them, it's fun to watch her stalk them, etc., but trying to catch the crickets in the little plastic crate is practically impossible. If I keep the lid open too long, they hop out. If I keep it closed, I can't catch them. What's the right tool? Should I use a net? A meatball maker? Help!

Answers:

I would use a cardboard tube like for toilet paper or paper towels.they crawl inside feeling like it's protection..then you can just uncover one side and let them out into the cage..

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put the cricket cage in the lizard cage then open it and wait until one jumps out.

OR!

put a small hole in the cricket cage then open a can of peas put some of the peas in front of the hole when a cricket comes out to take a pea you grab him. It's easier to sneak up on them if you wear sneakers, or tennis shoes.

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Thats an awful lot of work. Why not just get a few crickets every week, rather than storing them. Keeping crickets is a smelly occupation. DO NOT put too many crickets in at once. If the anole doesn't eat them, they will get hungry and they can kill the anole. Stupid as that sounds.

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What kind of twisted, sick masochistic person ARE you?

Let the lizard go outside where the real crickets are. Let the crickets go and stop torturing them for your own amusement.