our cricket has died after just a few days. His name was Magnus. The reason to his death was very unclear, and there were significant changes to our habitat after we did what we assumed to be small tweaks. First things first, Magnus was much much smaller and weaker and less active than Tyrone (our first cricket) and we predicted that that would play a big role in how long he lived. With that aside, we can make some assumptions on how Magnus died.
reasons:
- lack of food – tyrone lived a long time, with basically the same food and conditions so we think that this was not the case. However, we do not see any bite marks on the plants, so that mean that Magnus was not eating them.
- lack of water – the plants did not seem moist as when Tyrone was living in there. We took out water, but this time it seems like it was too dry.
- mold – we do not know the specific reasons yet, but there was mold in the habitat, and that would have effected the cricket some way or another.
mold is visible in the bottom right corner
- again, we think that the main reason is that Magnus was simply weaker than Tyrone. He was smaller, and did not run around the habitat like tyrone did. So next time we will be sure to get the bigger cricket we can find to make sure that it lives longer in our habitat, so that we can have it live for over 4 months,
fixes:
- we will put just a tad more water about 15 grams
- we will add more plants, to make sure there is variety
- we try to figure out why the mold is there, and get rid of it just in case
- we will make sure to have a bigger and stronger cricket.