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    hsiwangmu
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    Question Small crickets better?

    Hey yall,

    I have 2 White's that are doing very well, big enough for me to feed the largest size crickets my aquarium store can offer, I recently had a roommate tell me that the smaller size crickets are more nutritious because the big ones are mostly exoskeleton and that they are going to die very soon. Is this true? I can't find anything on the subject of cricket nutrition.

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    Kurt
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    Default Re: Small crickets better?

    Its not true as far as I know. Crickets are what we call soft-bodied insects, they are not, nor will they ever be "mostly exoskeleton". That being said they are not nutritionally sound and that's why we use vitamin supplements and vary the diets of our animals as much as possible. Much has been written on the nutritional properties of commonly used feeder insects. You may even find something here in the archives (I think, but I am not 100% sure)

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