It's a science experiment, and I don't want to purchase a system. Researching on hydroponics, they say all this complicated stuff that's hard to understand if I'm just doing an experiment where I can grow the plant. Please help, thank you, much mahalo.
How long have you had you crickets? If it's not long then you should wait a little while more for them to get used to the surroundings and actually feel comfortable breeding. If you follow the steps correctly I'm sure the crickets will not hesitate to reproduce. Good luck :)
The eggs will be more difficult to see in the vermiculite but with that many adults some females will definitely have layed eggs in it if you kept it damp. You are better off taking the egg chambers out to incubate separately. Young crickets hatch out the size of fleas and it will be difficult to effectively feed and water them if they are mixed in with the adults. The adults will also cannibilize the young. Keep the egg chamber lightly damp but not wet and incubate it at around 85F. It will take around 2 weeks for the eggs to hatch. Crickets are really a smelly, time consuming hassle to breed for one bearded and take several weeks to reach useable size. I only breed them when I specifically need many tiny crickets, I would really suggest you try breeding one of the feeder roaches like Dubia if possible. Much easier and much less smelly then crickets.
just give them some time! it took my crickets about a month to start breeding! make sure it isn't too hot in the tub!
