So, I've moved the crickets to a cooler locale within the household and they're surviving much longer now. This means that my dining room table has yet another non-dining-friendly fixture on top of it now, along with the geckos' egg incubator. I figured it had to be the heat from being stored right above the tanks, and confirmed with Cameron that heat pretty much does the exact opposite as what cold does to crickets. If you put your crickets in the fridge, their metabolisms slow down and they go dormant as though they were hibernating through the winter. If they're too warm, though, their metabolisms speed up and they die in a matter days or even hours. Good to know.
The lizards seem happy about it :)
~Jessica
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