1000 Live Crickets - Medium 1/2 by Bassett's Cricket Ranch

These are the best crickets I have ever bought, they are very healthy and barely die. When I buy crickets from the pet store they always die super fast. I have bought these same crickets a few times and never have any issues I keep them in a 40 Gal tank and always get 1,000 at a time they last about 2/3 weeks for my bearded dragons and again they stay alive it is rare that 1 or 2 may die. These crickets are much different then the regular ones and I also read up on them they have a softer shell so better for digestion! I will never buy any other kind!!

These were not medium ½" crickets. At best, they were small - extra small ⅛-¼" in size. Disappointed. This ended up being 1 snack instead of many. There were no air holes/screens in the box for their week-long trip across the country during a heatwave, they were so small that they would have escaped. Which is exactly what they did the minute I started to remove the packing tape and stopped. Next thing I realized there were mini crickets all through my room. I hadn't even finished removing the packing tape from 1 side of the box yet. I I hadn't even gotten to the flap yet, it was just the side of the box. I have ordered crickets for years for my reptiles and birds and never dealt with this. Occasional escape if I checked them and closed the flap before transferring them, sure. Very disappointed in packaging, lack of proper live animal labeling, quality and description. No liquid gel cube for survival, nothing. I have no idea if I had even close to 1000, they were too small to group and count, their poop piles were almost as big as they were.

Bassett's is great. I've ordered from them directly before. They are just as good thru Amazon. They are in California and close to me in Nevada. I got my crickets in 2 days all alive. They are the banded crickets which are not as susceptible to cricket virus as are the regular domestic crickets other cricket farms sell. Keep them in a tank with egg crates, keep the tank and egg crates dry but provide plenty of water crystals and they should do fine. A wet or moist environment will lead to them dying. Water crystals will keep them hydrated just enough to be happy. A piece of orange also helps. Dry cricket chow also recommended. If you see hairy worms of black beetles, these are dermestid beetles and their larva. They will eat the dead crickets and left over food. Some places charge for these beetles. I keep them in my cricket and roach colonies to help clean up the dead. Only bad thing I can say is I did get one huge brownish spider. Not poisonous but freaked me out. Thought it was a cricket at first.

I read a review that someone found a couple spiders in with their crickets. They said they thought they were brown recluse spiders but the picture wasn't very clear. Well I myself found a spider in with mine so tried to take more clear pictures. I don't know what a brown recluse looks like but this is what my spider looked like before I killed it. I also found a few other bugs in with the crickets. A lot of the crickets are much bigger than the size that I ordered and my geckos won't be able to eat them...I guess I'll try to start breading my own...maybe. In my video I said I thought I ordered 1/4 inch, I was wrong and I ordered 1/2 inch, but still many of the crickets are much much larger than 1/2 inch crickets. My box came with two pieces of egg crate but they were not opposite direction of each other they were the same so as they shifted and moved they sort of fell into each other and I had some smashed half dead crickets. So I guess order at your own risk.

Variety of medium to pinhead size. Not medium. Tracking on shipping wasn't given for this item.