- Popular Choice: 1/8 Inch Standard Crickets (Acheta domesitca) are a great choice for lizards, turtles, birds, fish, invertebrates and other insectivorous animals.
- Variety of Options:
- Sizes: Eleven options including:
- Pinhead
- 3 Day
- 1/8 Inch
- 3/16 Inch
- 1/4 Inch
- 3/8 Inch
- 1/2 Inch
- 2/3 Inch
- 3/4 Inch
- Prewing
- Adult
Tip: When choosing a Live Food item for your pet, pick an item that’s smaller in width than the animal’s mouth. - Sizes: Eleven options including:
- Nutritional Enhancement: For optimal nutrition, 1/8 Inch Standard Crickets should be supplemented with calcium by dusting or by including CalciWorms in your animal’s diet. Additionally, enrich their diet by incorporating waxworms for extra fat and hornworms for additional moisture.
- Care & Maintenance: To reduce stress and ensure proper care for your 1/8 Inch Standard Crickets, transfer them to a well-ventilated container with a secure lid, such as a plastic tub or critter keeper. Provide clean egg cartons as hiding spaces to minimize stress.
- Temperature & Humidity: Maintain an optimal temperature of 70°F – 75°F with low humidity.
- Hydration: Provide moisture through vegetables like shredded carrots or cut potatoes, as water bowls can cause drowning.
- Feeding: Offer commercially available cricket food for balanced nutrition.
- Sanitation: Regularly clean the container by removing waste, uneaten food, and dead crickets to maintain a hygienic environment.
- Satisfaction Guaranteed: All Live Foods are guaranteed to arrive alive, except when shipped to areas with temperatures below 10°F or above 100°F, and are accompanied by a 72-hour health guarantee.
- Shipping Information: Live Food orders placed by 3:00 PM CT on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will ship the same day, Live Food orders placed after 3:00 PM CT on Thursday through Sunday will ship on Monday.
Guaranteed Analysis
| Crude Protein (min) | 16.8% |
| Crude Fat (min) | 5.6% |
| Crude Fiber (max) | 3.6% |
| Moisture (max) | 75.6% |
| Ash (max) | 1.2% |
| Calcium (min) | .03% |
| Phosphorus (min) | .42% |
Customer Reviews
Acheta domestica crickets, also known as House Crickets, or Brown Crickets are the preferred species of cricket for reptile food. 1/8 Inch Standard Crickets are an excellent staple food item for all insectivores. Live crickets activate the hunting instinct for reptiles, keeping them active and interested in their food source.
You can order 1/8 Inch Standard Crickets anytime at RodentPro.com. Live Food Orders placed by 3:00 PM CT will ship the same day, Monday through Thursday. Live Food Orders placed after 3:00 PM CT Thursday and all orders placed Friday, Saturday and Sunday will ship Monday.
Once your order has shipped, you will receive an email containing your tracking information.
To reduce stress and ensure proper care for your 1/8 Inch Standard Crickets, it is essential to transfer them to a well-ventilated container with a secure lid, like a plastic tub or critter keeper. Use clean egg cartons for hiding spaces to reduce stress. The optimal temperature for 1/8 Inch Standard Crickets is 70–75°F with low humidity. Provide moisture with vegetables like shredded carrots or cut potatoes, as using water bowls can result in drowning. Feed them commercially available cricket food. Regularly clean the container by removing waste, uneaten food, and dead crickets to ensure a hygienic environment.
Keeping 1/8 Inch Standard Crickets with different feeder insects can be tricky and is generally not recommended. You should use separate containers tailored to each insect species.
When shipping during cold weather 1/8 Inch Standard Crickets may arrive cold. In the event your crickets arrive and are dry but motionless they are very likely in a statue of “diapause”. Diapause is a condition that crickets can easily recover from. Cold temperatures prevent crickets from maintaining the correct water to potassium balance that allows them to use their muscles. In almost all circumstances crickets that have been too cold for several hours will recover once they are brought back up to room temperature. To speed their recovery, you should empty the contents into a separate bin and remove the potato and egg crates to provide as much room temperature airflow to the crickets as possible. DO NOT warm them with any additional heat source except room temperature air. It may take a few hours for them to recover.
