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Where's the least expensive place to get cardboard egg flats

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Sonja K. Reptiles

I'm needing to order some cardboard egg flats for the colony of Dubia roaches I have. Where are some good places to get them from?
Thanks!


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8/5/2009 3:50:46 PM

FyreFocks

You should just eat a lot of eggs.

I love eggs
From my head down to my toes.

Author Comment

8/5/2009 3:57:09 PM

Sonja K. Reptiles

Eeeew! I HATE eggs! Just the smell of them cooking is awful!
My mom says she thinks it's because I went through a spell of several months when I was around 3 where the ONLY food I would eat was scrambled eggs - LOL
And, none of my kids will eat them either! LOL So... sorry, Nate, that's just not going to work for me. LOL

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8/5/2009 4:51:36 PM

Geckofactor

www.eggboxes.com if you need a lot of them
ebay if you only n eed like 20 it's 7 bucks just search egg flats

Accepted Answer

8/5/2009 5:58:29 PM

Blaise and Echo

I get'em free! (My mom owns a restaurant, which goes through lots of eggs) How many do you need? Just send me shipping, and I can send you some.

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8/5/2009 11:05:12 PM

TVR

superiorenterprise.com

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8/6/2009 12:23:47 AM

jetmech

I got a bunch of crates from Yankee Candle Co. They are what their candles are shipped in. They are like the bottom of an egg crate, but for HUGE eggs. They work great for me, and they are free. They just throw them away at the mall!
Bill

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8/6/2009 10:54:30 AM

JohnJohn

Sonja, if you ever had one of the Spinach and Cream Cheese omelets I make, you would love eggs again!

I don't know about roaches, but I've been breeding a LOT of crickets this year. What I like better than egg crates is cardboard roles from paper towels. I usually put four or five of those in the cricket bucket along. What I love about this is that these make great dispensing tubes as well. The crickets are all in their just waiting to be shook out into their death! And we go through hundreds of roles of paper towels so I like the recycling aspect of it too.

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8/6/2009 3:14:43 PM

Kovol445

i work in a cafeteria and we get tons of egg flats all the time. Same thing goes just let me know and you pay for the shipping.

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8/6/2009 6:35:19 PM

Mintsiez

just go to a restaurant that serves alot of breakfast and they would probably give them to you for free

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8/6/2009 10:52:55 PM

Triangle Reptiles

IHOP

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8/6/2009 11:31:24 PM

Sonja K. Reptiles

Thanks so much for all the wonderful suggestions and offers! : )
I'm going to make some calls to some local restaurants and see what I can get. I'll let you know how it goes.

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8/10/2009 2:26:22 PM

Mintsiez

try some egg and talk to some egg farmers alos they would probably know were to get them really cheap if you cant get some from restants i alos work in a restaunt and would ship them if you payed shipping we just trow ours away pm if intrested

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8/17/2009 10:59:48 PM

wolfyhound

I'm going to be calling my local resturants, so thank you to every who posted responses! For paper towel rolls(I rarely use paper towels), I'm going to ask my friends and the vet next door to save the tubes for me.

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8/17/2009 11:22:52 PM

Sonja K. Reptiles

Just wanted to thank everyone that responded for "thinking out of the box" for me - LOL
I called up the Perkins near my house, the lady asked how many I wanted, I told her I'd take whatever she wanted to give me. So, she saved them on a Saturday and through breakfast on a Sunday - their busiest day - she called me when she had them, and I went and picked up 49 of them for free! Worked out as sweet as could be!

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