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Feeding cricket legs?

1.3K views 2 replies 3 participants last post by  varanoid  
#1 ·
Hi everyone, I'm doing my research before getting into dart frogs but have a question on feeding.

Has anything tried using cricket legs to feed their dart frogs instead of pinhead crickets and fruit flies?

The reason I ask is, when I kept tarantulas I would feed my spiderlings with cricket legs (literally separate the leg from an adult cricket and give it to the spider) and they readily ate them. But this may be because most tarantulas will happily consume a dead insect that gets stuck in their webs.

Is it possible that this would work for dart frogs, or are they really only likely to eat moving prey?

Thanks!

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#2 ·
I wouldn't. I would worry about them digesting them and I am not sure how much nutrition there is in just a leg. Also, if we are talking full size crickets, the food would be too large for all but the largest of dart frogs. I would just go with the old standard - fruit flies.

Mark
 
#3 ·
Dart frogs require movement to elicit a feeding response. So the leg wouldn't fit the bill.

You are best off starting to culture fruit flies. I much prefer flies to crickets. Less smelly, and WAY cheaper, around buck or two and it lasts for weeks. Frankly one culture is more than you can feed off to a few frogs.