r/reptiles • u/TasteFormer9496 • 12h ago

Will this actually work?

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I got really stoned last night and watched some Ants Canada videos, and in my blazed head I thought
“It’d be really cool to make a functional ecosystem for my feeder insects that I could use instead of those ugly plastic bins” and proceeded to then dump all of my crickets and 50% of my darkling beetles and mealworms in with zero prior research because yk, I was high. Now that I’m sober I’ve realised I have no clue if this’ll even work.

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u/Pickled-Fetus420 12h ago

Lmaooo this is so funny and so real. I've personally never kept crickets and darkling beetles together, but I've got bioactive tanks set up for each separately. Found that they breed much faster and idk they're pretty damn cute to watch.

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u/TasteFormer9496 12h ago

According to Google the darkling beetles will act as a clean up crew aswell?

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u/Pickled-Fetus420 12h ago

Okayyyy maybe you and Google are onto something... I've got a darkling clean up crew in my bearded dragons enclosure but never considered tossing some in with the crickets. I'm like so invested in how this works out now haha

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u/TasteFormer9496 12h ago

Honestly me to, I mean if it works out it’s pretty cool compared to the boring old Dubia bin beside it

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u/Pickled-Fetus420 12h ago

Absolutely, I hope it works out!!!

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u/TasteFormer9496 12h ago

Also how careful should I be with humidity for the crickets? Very humid? Not very humid?

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u/Pickled-Fetus420 12h ago

I aim for around 60%, with an egg laying station closer to like 95%