My Crickets

[Ken's Deputy 4,462]

They fascinate me. I give them a bottle top, which I keep topped up with their " Bug Gel " water crystals. I've seen them come for that, as if they know exactly what, and where, it is.

But, I just decided to randomly chuck the last of them a bit of well cooked sprout. Fukk me! Instantly, crickets a foot away stopped what they were doing and Dashed for the sprout!

Couple of minutes later? It's just a heaving mass of crickets.

Fascinating things, if we take the time. Must make sure to order the Silent fukkers, next time though. It'd been a trying time

[tatsblisters 10,964]

I take it there keeping you up all night then. 

[iworkwhippets 13,169]

Have you got names for all your crickets Ken. 

[FLATTOP 5,249]

My Son used to own a Goliath Bird eating spider that lived under a coconut who was partial to a cricket as soon as it picked up just a slight tremor that a cricket was present in the tank a leg used to appear from under the coconut, and what happened next was only what can be described as your worst nightmare.

I remember it well he owned it on base when he was in the RAF he got posted to Afghanistan and the dickhead he trusted it with turned off the heat mat and alas that was the end of Trevor, I offered to look after but my Mrs threatened divorce

[Ken's Deputy 4,462]

4 hours ago, FLATTOP said:

 what happened next was only what can be described as your worst nightmare.

Au contraire! Old mate of mine kept a room packed with tarantulas. It was the time he put a live mouse in with one particularly nasty fukker. That fukkin mentally scarred me! 

 

[Ken's Deputy 4,462]

7 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

I take it there keeping you up all night then. 

Naah. Trail cams.

[tatsblisters 10,964]

Just out of curiosity are they cheap to buy and send by couriers the reason i ask the company i work for we handle loads of them and other live foods like meal worms and cockroach when the weather is warm you can ear them across the warehouse.

[forest of dean redneck 12,023]

7 hours ago, FLATTOP said:

My Son used to own a Goliath Bird eating spider that lived under a coconut who was partial to a cricket as soon as it picked up just a slight tremor that a cricket was present in the tank a leg used to appear from under the coconut, and what happened next was only what can be described as your worst nightmare.

I remember it well he owned it on base when he was in the RAF he got posted to Afghanistan and the dickhead he trusted it with turned off the heat mat and alas that was the end of Trevor, I offered to look after but my Mrs threatened divorce

Had a salmon pink bird eater that would hit a cricket an literally rupture it .they get some good sized fangs on them the big tarantulas.

[FLATTOP 5,249]

2 hours ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Au contraire! Old mate of mine kept a room packed with tarantulas. It was the time he put a live mouse in with one particularly nasty fukker. That fukkin mentally scarred me! 

 

You know what Ken I wasn’t going to mention the mice but seeing as you have here go’s my lad used to feed live mice to his one the violence is off the scale the speed at which it attacks the poor little bugger is unreal and then clamping down on its head sucking the moisture out is as you say mentally scarring .

The thing used to shoot off hairs at you as well which irritated there was absolutely no bonding going on just a real nasty hateful f****r, but strangely I thought it was great.

 

[FLATTOP 5,249]

12 minutes ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Had a salmon pink bird eater that would hit a cricket an literally rupture it .they get some good sized fangs on them the big tarantulas.

Sounds great they are very impressive, I’d like to have a go at keeping small frogs in a vivarium you can create a mini rainforest with mist flies etc some pretty good videos on YouTube I’ve seen them in the wild in Costa Rica and they are tiny.

[Ken's Deputy 4,462]

14 minutes ago, FLATTOP said:

You know what Ken I wasn’t going to mention the mice but seeing as you have here go’s .....

Yesss!!! You've Definitely been there! Wonder if it was the same thing as my mate had?

Not good though, is it? Many people have this train wreck fascination with things killing things. But, Fukk! There's killing something. Then there's doing That to it!!! Fukking Gnarly!

[forest of dean redneck 12,023]

27 minutes ago, FLATTOP said:

Sounds great they are very impressive, I’d like to have a go at keeping small frogs in a vivarium you can create a mini rainforest with mist flies etc some pretty good videos on YouTube I’ve seen them in the wild in Costa Rica and they are tiny.

Yeah fed it pinkies before but defrosted ones . Same with Pac-Man frogs another strangely captivating thing to watch .

[gnipper 6,812]

My first spider was a Chile rose (grammastola spatulata) and I've had a load since then up until having kids. I was bitten by that first one which was scary as a kid but the scariest I had was a cobalt blue run up my arm.

 I fed an adult frog to the Chile rose but stuck to crickets etc after that

[Jonjon79 13,358]

I like the sound that crickets make.

 

I don't mind the regular spiders that we get over here but, who the f**k would want one of them big 'uns

 ......... especially after reading some of the posts on here.

 

I remember watching one of those Steve Backshall (?) wildlife programmes - they tried to catch a Camel Spider that they found. The aggressive little twat actually ran at them in the end.

 

I was going to put up a picture of one but, I don't want to put my finger on the image to cut and paste it

[Ken's Deputy 4,462]

13 minutes ago, Jonjon79 said:

I like the sound that crickets make.

You Think you do. Believe me; It gets Old, pretty fukking quickly!