Cricket laying eggs

[Kay Parker]

Hi everyone,
I have just feed my B smithi with a brown cricket. Before the cricket made its way to meet Rosie my T, it started probing the substrate.
I have just looked that up and realised it was laying eggs.

Will this be a problem later? Should I remove the substrate in that area?

Many thanks for any answers

[R Thomas]

Hi Kay,

It takes a week or two for cricket eggs to hatch (if they are going to) and at that stage are pretty much invisible. I imagine that the egg laying must be a regular occurance when feeding our tarantulas with random crickets and I have never seen any issues arise.

I would just let nature take its course and if they hatch and grow then I am pretty sure something will a) either eat them as a snack or b) they will die of natural causes.

Richard

[Peter Lacey]

As above but you can catch the crickets with a piece of lettuce and feed them off to any tiny slings or mantids you may have.

[Kay Parker]

Thanks Richard and Peter. You have at least put the problem into prospective. I only have one T and I usually use the 'Spider knows best rule', but in this case she was preoccupied eating the cricket.

[Colin D Wilson]

As Pete said, when (and if) you see any small "things" crawling and hopping around in the tank just catch them with some lettuce or cucumber.
You could have a go a rearing them to a larger size if you have a spare (escape proof) tub.
Just keep it fairly dry and feed small items of greenery and some tropical fish food flakes (dry style dog food is quite good too when then get larger)

You could possibly save yourself some money buying crickets in the near future

[R Thomas]

If you see any small "things" crawling and hopping around in the tank just catch them with some lettuce or cucumber.
You could possibly save yourself some money buying crickets in the near future

Or alternatively you could just eat the lettuce and cucumber and save yourself a fortune in wasted salad

Whoever coined the phrase 'no cost option' obviously never lived in the real world!