I just cannot belive it - escaped crickets, again!

[SylviRigden]

We have resident crickets living behind the fridge in the kitchen, there is always one singing at night. I guess we have got used to the noise now. I lose so many I am very reluctant to go into roach feeding as I don't think I could stand sharing with cockroaches.

[Tom Forman]

well I am in the process of changing from crickets to roaches.

I have got the turkistan roach and the orange spotted roach and I can't see them ever escaping. They just scurry along and can't climb glass or plastic. Unless I drop their container...
There is always a way so lets hope that never happens.

I can understand the worries about roaches but I am happy with my decision. I am much less worried about an escape with my roaches than the crickets.
On the other hand an escaped roach is more worrying than an escaped cricket.

Guess everyone has got to make the choice of either having noisy crickets that are bound to escape or having roaches than are unlikely to escape but would be a nightmare if they ever did.

[Peter Lacey]

LMAO.
They'll escape. Its as simple as that. Infact they're more likely to escape than crickets. Roach can flatten their body, can climb, have wings etc. even if they can't climb glass they can climb the silicone that holds it together. Its not a case of if, but when.

[Tom Forman]

alright Peter,

you're on.

Lets have a bet going on it.

One year from now we will see how I've done.

I have picked up alot of valuable information keeping the crickets though so these roaches have got very little chance.

Guess the crickets did do one good thing for me


Oh yeah and in case any1 is interested, one of the "lose" crickets was hiding in gap under my fish tank. I couldn't move the tank so I pushed together the two styrofoam bits , squashing the cricket. I've been hearing styrofoam chewing noise for past 2 days now. Don't think he is going to make it out though.

[Phil Rea]

The shed itself was £298, hand made, delivered and erected. Then count around £150 on running electrics to it, armoured cable etc. I have a 50 amp feed to power garden lights, heaters which is all running off a distribution board in the shed. This is all tied back to the mains board in the house on a RCD. Luckily my cousin is a sparky! Then we are replacing old flag stone paths with neatly laid concrete, thats another £150. We hired a digger for the weekend to level out the garden and dig the initial foundations and power feed trenches- that cost us £120. The wires have to be a specific depth by law.

I still have to buy the internal fittings for the spider house, things like shelves, glass for custom built tanks etc. So it hasn't been cheap to do really.

But the end result will be worth it as we have also used the project to sort out the garden. So everyone gets benefit from it. The Mrs gets a sun lounger (and a new hanging out area) , and my son's get a nice safe garden to play in.

Sounds excellent. We're thinking of something similar ourselves, only for reptiles and spiders. We have a big shed at the back of the house which is falling apart. It's an old farm building and has been up for years, so if we 'repair' it, which means pretty much rebuilding it, we shouldn't have any planning problems.

Early planning stages at the moment though

[Chris Sainsbury]

Hi
Escapeing crickets = Problem
Catching escaped crickets = no problem

See link

http://www.thebts.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1979

so now escapeing crickets = no problem either!
All is back to square one again.

Cheers
Chris

[Peter Lacey]

alright Peter,
you're on.
Lets have a bet going on it.
One year from now we will see how I've done.
I have picked up alot of valuable information keeping the crickets though so these roaches have got very little chance.
Guess the crickets did do one good thing for me

LOL, I like it, I'm up for the bet. Sounds like it could be good fun. I recon I'd be safe to say you'll have an escape in less than 6 months (in all probability I recon within a month or 2 but lets stick to 6 months). Problem is most roach hate the light so knowing they've escaped will be harder to determine.

The bet? a sling (postage paid) of something you haven't already got?

[Richard Shah]

See, this is where cats come in handy. Any crickets that have escaped on me during feeding don't last long, as my son's cat is right there waiting eagerly.

Thank God for Timmy, my cat! But he is lazy so I'm not sure I can rely on him!

Tom, why don't you just let them loose in an area of grassy land?

[Richard Shah]

LOL, I like it, I'm up for the bet. Sounds like it could be good fun. I recon I'd be safe to say you'll have an escape in less than 6 months (in all probability I recon within a month or 2 but lets stick to 6 months). Problem is most roach hate the light so knowing they've escaped will be harder to determine.

The bet? a sling (postage paid) of something you haven't already got?

Ooo... very interesting. I'd love to see the outcome, but Tom, after your post about the box being 'escape-proof', and then having crickets escape (even though they may be from a few months before or w/e), I think I'll go with Peter.
As for me, I think my plastic tank will serve well for the crickets, and I think I will have NO escapes!!!!!

[J M Clegg]

Sounds excellent. We're thinking of something similar ourselves, only for reptiles and spiders. We have a big shed at the back of the house which is falling apart. It's an old farm building and has been up for years, so if we 'repair' it, which means pretty much rebuilding it, we shouldn't have any planning problems.

Early planning stages at the moment though

Hi Phil.

Me and the lads laid the concrete for the shed base today. We also shifted about 4 tons of soil in the new garden move around. The shed itself arrives on Tuesday but I expect it will be another month before the spiders take up residence. Crickets and Roaches can escape to their hearts content down at the bottom of the garden!!!!

I will post a seperate thread about the spider house sometime next week......................

Regards to all

Jay.

[Tom Forman]

The bet? a sling (postage paid) of something you haven't already got?

That sounds good to me.

I'll have to mark down 1st March 2009 in my calendar

I will of course play by the rules, if I drop one and I manage to catch it again I will consider that a loss.

Heehee this is definetely one of the strangest bets I have gone for so far.


Jay, all the best with your project, it sounds great.

[Richard Shah]

That sounds good to me.

I'll have to mark down 1st March 2009 in my calendar

I will of course play by the rules, if I drop one and I manage to catch it again I will consider that a loss.

Heehee this is definetely one of the strangest bets I have gone for so far.


Jay, all the best with your project, it sounds great.

Although this is not my bet, I do not see you dropping one as a loss; Peter, your thoughts?

[Peter Lacey]

nah, dropping one and catching it immediately can't be considered a loss. It must escape by its own means or get away from you for at least a couple of minutes.

[Richard Shah]

nah, dropping one and catching it immediately can't be considered a loss. It must escape by its own means or get away from you for at least a couple of minutes.

My thoughts are true and wise Kl so, what do you say to that, Tom? Agree, or are you seriously sticking by your own term?

[Phil Rea]

Hi Phil.

Me and the lads laid the concrete for the shed base today. We also shifted about 4 tons of soil in the new garden move around. The shed itself arrives on Tuesday but I expect it will be another month before the spiders take up residence. Crickets and Roaches can escape to their hearts content down at the bottom of the garden!!!!

I will post a seperate thread about the spider house sometime next week......................

Regards to all

Jay.

Sounds good. I have a number of jobs to attend to before I can get started, like replacing the filter in the pond, possibly re-lining it, trying to catch all the fish if we do re-line it, move some wiring from the gable end, re-do all the pond wiring to accomodate the new pump and filter etc.. etc..

I'm actually meant to be working now, on a data file for entry into a cladistics tree building program, but it's a coffee and look round the forums break instead. Never mind!

So much to do, so little time