Komodo Kricket Keeper

I have this cricket keeper, have used it for years and love it! I didn't have crickets escaping at first, so when it first happened I thought that they had escaped between the plastic bag and the keeper itself. I finally realized that some were escaping through the tiny square hole just above each of the tubes. The holes are so small that you wouldn't think the crickets could squeeze through, but they do. I solved the problem by putting a small piece of scotch tape over each one of these small holes. It doesn't hurt the crickets at all; as a matter of fact, they now last longer, due to the fact that none are escaping! There are apparently no toxic fumes from the tape, they still have plenty of air, etc., etc. This is one of the most useful "critter" keepers I have ever had.

I've owned several cricket-keeping devices and to date this is my favorite. Although I have several reptiles ranging from Leopard Geckos to a Box Turtle, I don't buy very many crickets. This is a great product for keeping 1-2 dozen medium or large crickets. So if you're feeding 6 or 7 reptiles, this is NOT for you!

The problem: If I put any more than 1 or 2 dozen in, they escape. I don't know how, but I don't have a problem with "escapees" if I keep less than 2 dozen. I still deal with the occasional escape artist though, but consider the fact that you are keeping insects in your house and there are bound to be at least a few running loose in your house anyway.

The Kricket Keeper is easy to clean (especially when you line it with a small clear plastic bag), easy to access for feeding/watering, and easy to get the crickets out with the wand. A great "starter" cricket housing item, or for those of us who use very few crickets and only feed them as a treat!

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I have various sizes of Lee's Cricket Keeper's and they don't even come close to the quality of the Exo Terra Cricket Pen's

Both have the same Removable ventilated lid, however Lee's (feeder) tubes slide into the lid rather then the body of the Keeper like Exo's does. A BIG minus.

Both have "Cricket dispensers" Lee's is round while Exo's is square, no biggie.

Here are the BIG differences:

Lee's has these "Lame" round flaps that (suppose) to cover the tube opening when pulled out and almost all of the time they (flaps) fall off!

The Exo Terra Cricket Pen has a drop down "Flapper door" built into the the inside of the pen's sides (not the lid) that will never fail.

Simply slide the tube out of the Exo Terra Cricket Pen and the flapper drops down automatically to prevent escapes and easily reopens when the tubes are reinserted.

The Exo Includes a cricket food tray and water bowl tray with tapered steps (that includes a sponge to retain water) held in place by the (inserted) square tubes that keep the trays from sliding around. They can easily be removed for refilling and cleaning. A very nice touch!

At the time of this review both are eligible for "Prime" with the Exo costing ONLY 22 cents more!

Plus the Exo has a nice shinny Black cover.

I removed the sponge from the water tray and fill it with Fluker's Cricket Quencher

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I bought this item to house my crickets for my hungry beardies and panther chameleon. Unfortunately though crickets CAN and DO escape from this item. My son was wondering what was crawling on him in the middle of the night and we discovered crickets all over his room. I tried placing the cricket keeper in the bathtub and sure enough when I returned later there were crickets in the tub that had escaped (and yes the lid was snapped tight and the two tubes had their covers on them). Now I have to keep the keeper tied up in plastic bags when crickets are inside until I can find another cricket keeper. So unless you want to be a Kricket Wrangler .....

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I bought the Kricket Keeper to hold crickets for a juvenile leopard gecko. It did a fair job. I had read about the escapes, we might have had one small cricket escape through the small square holes above the tubes, but we're not sure. Once the gecko grew a bit and could eat the larger crickets that was not a problem anymore.

The part I'm unhappy with is that the clear plastic covers used to cap the black tubes break relatively quickly. We would take the caps off to clean the tubes when we cleaned the keeper. After a few cleaning cycles the caps would crack in half. They give you a few extra caps to use as "dishes", but instead I just used them as replacements as the caps broke. Eventually we just used clear plastic wrap and rubber bands to cover the tubes. The Kricket keeper once fell from the chest of drawers it was on and the clear plastic container cracked (no crickets were in it at the time, we had just finished feeding the last ones to the gecko). The good news is that the container it is a standard size, so I was able to buy a replacement base for a small amount of money.

As the gecko grew we needed a larger keeper to reduce the number of trips to the store. We picked up the Exo Terra cricket pen, Large. I couldn't find it on Amazon, so I ordered it from another online retailer. That one works better, no small hole above the tube to escape from, and the caps are a more flexible plastic which have not broken yet (much longer that it took the Lee's caps to break). I'm not sure how Lee's Kricket Keeper was able to become so ubiquitous (petsmart, petco, amazon), the Exo terro cricket pens are better products. I just wish it were easier to find them. But I guess is doesn't matter for us as we have all the cricket holding pens we need for now.

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