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Highly active, long-lived, and easily digestible staple live feeders—the ultimate “pinhead” size for micro-reptiles, tiny amphibians, and recent hatchlings.
Pinhead Banded Crickets (Gryllodes sigillatus) are a premium choice for reptile keepers looking for a hardier, longer-lasting alternative to fruit flies or standard pinhead brown crickets. Measuring roughly 1/16″ to 1/8″ in length, these crickets are newborn pinheads (approximately 1 to 5 days old). Completely wingless, highly visible, and exceptionally soft-bodied, they offer a bite-sized, nutrient-dense meal that is perfectly safe for tiny pets to capture and digest.
- Size & Age: Pinhead size, approximately 1/16″–1/8″ (1.5mm–3mm) in length (approx. 1–5 days from hatch).
- Superior Longevity: Naturally hardier with an active life expectancy of another 10 to 12 weeks in your care.
- Highly Digestion-Friendly: Ultra-soft newborn bodies guarantee completely safe digestion with zero risk of impaction.
- Perfect For: Newborn hatchling geckos, poison dart frogs, tiny spiderlings (slings), micro-geckos, and baby praying mantises.
Description
Upgrade your staple live foods with our farm-fresh Pinhead Banded Crickets. Known throughout the reptile hobby for their incredible resilience and energetic behavior, banded crickets are a fantastic, low-stress live food solution for both keepers and their exotic micro-animals.
Understanding Their Life Stage
We ship these crickets right as they reach their earliest pinhead stage, meaning they are roughly 1 to 5 days old. Because they are harvested right at the beginning of their lifecycle, they are completely silent, easy to contain, and have maximum growth potential ahead of them. Banded crickets are famously long-lived; once they arrive, you can expect them to thrive, grow, and stay viable for an additional 10 to 12 weeks when provided with basic food and warmth.
Why Choose Banded Crickets?
- High Activity Level: Banded crickets are natural jumpers and runners. Their constant movement provides excellent physical enrichment and triggers a strong predatory instinct in active hunters like dart frogs, newborn geckos, and baby tree frogs.
- Easier to Digest: Unlike other commercial cricket species that develop a tough, thick shell as they grow, banded crickets retain a remarkably soft body throughout their juvenile life stages. This minimizes any risk of impaction for fragile, growing hatchlings.
- Less Aggressive: Banded crickets are far less likely to bite or stress out your reptiles if left in the enclosure overnight compared to traditional brown or black crickets.
💡 Storage & Care Instructions
To maximize the lifespan of your crickets upon arrival, follow these straightforward husbandry tips:
- Housing: Transfer the crickets into a well-ventilated container (such as a cricket keeper or plastic tote with an ultra-fine mesh screen top to prevent escapees). Provide egg cartons or crumpled paper to increase surface area and reduce stress.
- Temperature: Maintain them at a warm room temperature between 21°C and 27°C. Avoid drafty areas or extreme heat.
- Hydration & Nutrition: Never offer standing water, as tiny pinhead crickets drown very easily. Instead, provide hydration using specialized moisture gels or fresh slices of carrots and potatoes. Feed them a high-quality grain-based cricket diet to gut-load them with nutrients before feeding your pets.
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Super happy with the delivery timeline. This was our first time ordering and my husband opened the box thinking the crickets would be better contained he ended up loosing a few hundred in the house as they were outside the inner box. Maybe a warning sheet in the large box that they are loose inside the secondary box. Again this was our first time ordering as we just got into dart frog keeping. So lesson learned on our part. Will likely order again but will definitely open outside.
Would be 5 but since they were loose in box …so many escaped
Packaged in a loose cardboard box, literally impossible to open without them all escaping