/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>8955593
because fuck bugs

name one person who got rich doing this...

>>8955758
me

>>8955758
what if the real riches are the cricket friends you made along the way?

>>8955593
Who buys fucking crickets?

>>8955593
how to deal with their constant shitting, pissing and chirping? what do they eat?

>>8955819
people who eat crickets?

>>8955819
Pet shops will buy live crickets in bulk to sell as pet food for customers

>>8955819
There are a lot of weird autists who obsess over reptiles, they spend hundreds of dollars a year to feed them. If you can corner a few petshops with your crickets and/or mealworms you can make some serious low effort money.

>>8955819
I think they're used as food for other animals like birds and lizzards.

>>8955593
>not making cricket burgers to sell to the chinese and africans

/cricket paralysis virus

>>8955790
Even in the OP he says that you make less than a k annually. No way I'm wasting my time on these noisy smelly ass bugs for pocket change.

>>8955923
$1400 for one small box, not hard to do more

>>8955758
David Fluker ships millions of crickets daily, he will sell you 5000 crickets for $64.50. Maybe OP can estimate his margin for us

>>8955912
fucking kek

>>8955593
they stink, a few die, gas gets released and you have a mini plague on your hands, dubai roaches are much easier to house and more nutritious, crickets are pleb tier.

>>8955936
If you're going to fuck with crickets at least go for the big money.
https://www.amazon.com/Cricket-powder-made-100-22/dp/B00OMCTODQ

>>8955967
jesus what the fuck anon

>>8955967
What is that thing?

>>8955967
i aint clickin that shit nigga.webm

>>8955967
HOLY SHI

>>8956015
Whip spider. A non venomous arachnid that lives in tropical places. Mostly they hang out in sheds and outhouses looking freaky.

>>8955967
>>8956096
Hey, spider fucks. This is a cricket breeding thread. If you don't want to make money then GTFO.

I used to have some of these fuckers when I was a kid. They only ate live crickets I was told. So I paid the fucking cricket masters every week to feed these guys. Then I got sick of paying the cricket tax so I started just buying dead frozen crickets in bulk, much cheaper. I would thaw them out before I fed them (its actually weird but occasionally a thawed cricket will actually survive being frozen for who knows how long and start chirping)

It took a while to train these guys to eat the thawed dead crickets. But eventually they got hungry enough to eat them. It might have fucked them up though because the frogs would start eating rocks and shit and drowning themselves. Except one actually became a cannibal and started eating other frogs. I thought he was a badass so I fed him other frogs for a while until he got loose one day. He only needed to eat a frog like once every week so it wasn't actually that much more expensive than the crickets. After he got a loose my mom found his dried up corpse flattened like a pancake in her shoes a couple weeks later. I used it as a bookmark for a while until it deteriorated too much.

>>8956192

>>8956118
Tell us more about the breeding process OP

>>8956285
It happens over night, while you're asleep.

>>8955976
kek

>>8956192
10/10, would read again. is this a Bitcoin CASH post?

>>8956192
lol

>>8956305
What about the management do you just put 10 crickets in a box then empty a thousand out 2 weeks later?

>>8956330
Pretty much

>>8956365
So the work is in wrangling the contracts from local pet stores

>>8955819
The bearded dragon I had when I was a kid loved to eat them.

RIP buddy

>>8956406
Actually ecommerce. The crickets can survive the cargo hold on airplanes despite the high altitude and you can sell them at a premium that way.

>>8956406
release a few plagued crickets into competing cricket farms

>>8956446
EBay or your own site?

>>8955593
wht about roach breeding? i can't get rid of the ones in my apartment

>>8956192
the fuck

>>8955967
>we require more minerals

>>8956460
>JUSTing my own farm with plague

Nice try anon

>>8956460
kek

>>8956476
I'm on ebay, amazon, and my own site.

>>8956320
This is almost activated almonds tier.

>>8956192
This is why I 4chan

>>8956192
>I used it as a bookmark
>You read books

>>8955593
how big is a box? what vegetables do they eat?

>>8956696
I buy the stale lettuce from the farmers market for pennies.

>>8956043

>>8956192
What a fucking ride
This is why I come on 4chan

Dude crickets and bearded dragons are no joke but if you don't have the distribution then you're fucked. Think local pet shops and online presence.
My buddy did it for years had almost a 1000sqft shop dedicated to it breeding translucent dragons and insane amounts of crickets. Fairly sure he broke six figure some years if not on the regular.

Crickets can also be used as fishing bait.

There's literally no way to lose money on crickets. Convert your btc into crickets today!

>>8956755

>>8955801
Underrated post

>>8955967
congratulations on this, seriously

>>8956192
>I used it as a bookmark for a while until it deteriorated too much.

I like you.
Want to be friends IRL?
No homo, just buddies.

>>8956192
based frogposter

thats a weta

>>8955801
10/10

>>8956192
11/10

>>8956192
>he only needed to eat a frog once every week
so he demanded sacrifice?

>>8956192
>dried up corpse flattened like a pancake

this brings back childhood memories of pet toads i would keep as a kid, would just put one in my pocket and go about my day

one day i couldnt find one of my toads and eventually found him in my garage, dried up and flat as a pancake.

>>8955593
CricketCoin ICO when?

>>8955593
>>8955758
>mfw being a simple cricket farmer making 200k annually

>>8956192

>>8959487
I have 19k sq feet I'm trying to find what to do with

>>8955593
DELETE THIS

>>8956192
You sir, are a gentleman and scholar