If you are keeping crickets to feed to a reptile, whats an easy way to catch them and feed them to reptile?

Question

If you are keeping crickets to feed to a reptile, whats an easy way to catch them and feed them to reptile?

Answer 1

use paper towel tubes propped up on angles, they need the angle so they can shed (otherwise die) and they like to hang out in them so you just grab one and shake it in the tank.

Answer 2

i just grabbed them in my hand and transfered to a transport container.

Answer 3

We caught them under our house. Throw a cut potato in with them and keep them in the dark and cool and they are fine.

Answer 4

dont catch them from your backyard. They can have "unknown" desieses.

I use this cricket home thing that has two black tubes coming out of the side, and they crawl in there all by them selves, then you just take out a black tube, and smack it against your cage, and they fall out. Easy as that..

you can even see how many are in the tube from a covered end..

its great

strongly reccomended

Answer 5

Your hands are a really good tool. Tongs made for reptiles work good, too.

Answer 6

The way i do it for my leopard gecko is, i cut off the top of a toothpaste box,you know the long box's, catch the crickets one by one and drop them into a calcium dish so it gets coated the gecko always comes out to watch me very close up  

Answer 7

if i'm fedding large ones, I just use my hand and throw them into a cup which I use to shake and dust them w/ vitamins. From there I use thongs to get them out of the cup. W/ small and medium ones, I just use a small plastic cylinder to scoop them up and them dump them in the cup. Also using thongs to get them out of the cup.  

Answer 8

you dont catch them from your backyard, you buy them at a store, and put them in a cricket feeder.

Answer 9

I have mine kept in a little container with a lid and I open a little spot of the lid and they basically just jump out into the cage after that. If you don't have them in a container use some tweezers.