I had this happen to me once....
I took baby food jars, and put some honey in the bottom of them. I placed
the jar half in the substrate, and made a ramp with a twig leaning on the
jar. Most of the crickets were caught, the ones that were not caught died
soon. They never bothered the geckos.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:15 PM
Subject: [Gecko] Help! The Crickets Have Taken Over!!
> The last batch of crickets that I had to feed my geckos had ovipositors,
so I
> took scissors and cut the ovipositors as close to the base as I could
> thinking this would prevent them from being able to lay eggs. Well, I
guess
> it did not work as planned, because now my beautiful 20 gallon long tank
with
> planted plants is infested with close to microscopic cricket babies. What
> can I do to get rid of them other than dismantling the cage and starting
all
> over again? The plants have been growing in there for quite some time and
> have rooted very nicely, so I don't want to destroy the whole set up. I
have
> taken the two Leopards out of there for the time being and placed them
into
> an empty 10 gallon tank until I figure out what to do so that the crickets
> don't get all over them.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> :o| Tobey
>
>
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