The main reason for removing back legs off a cricket are to slow it down and make it easier for ambush type frogs(like pacmans) to catch them. They can't really jump out of the water when you feed them to your ACF. There's is alot more "meat" inside a crickets jumping legs than you would think so when taking them off your pulling off some digestible food as well.
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