Quote Originally Posted by MatthewM1 View Post
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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Ah-hah. And here I was thinking that it was an impaction risks because of the hind legs. I will definitely have to slowly vary their diet and see what they take to.

I know other amphibians and reptiles eat roaches, are they really worth anything nutritional wise?