Canned crix taste salty

[Leefrogs]

I thaught they smell like soy sauce(shou) real salty. Maybe like they're canned for human consumption and salted for taste, and slapped their label on there. I thaught salt wasn't good fir frogs, just as medical treatment. So was worried. My whites are over a year, maybe older than that. Who knows how long they were jammed in shoebox size cage at petstore. Just trying to eliminate possibilities.

[Greg M]

Wow, I'm impressed that you got someone to try the crickets! As others have noted crickets and other insects are enjoyed as food by other cultures, but still !

I would consider a couple of other issues. First, color is influenced by a variety of factors, including temperature, humidity and environment. Secondly, color change can be related in some frogs to maturation (for example, Cranwell's horned frogs and Milk frogs change color as they mature). Lastly, diet affects coloration - carotenoids definitely influence synthesis of pigments, something the poison dart community thinks a lot about. If your frogs are subsisting largely on canned crickets, I personally would consider diversifying the diet (something I think is important for health, in any event) and perhaps using a vitamin/calcium supplement such as the Repashy Calcium Plus ICB which contains a variety of natural carotenoids. While it is by no means a controlled experiment, I have noticed that my frogs are especially vivid in coloration and I suspect that the Repashy supplement may have something to do with this...

[Iratus ranunculus]

Meh. I have been known to snack on grasshoppers when hiking (and probably have a GI tract filled with little parasites). But yeah, I would think the crickets are put in alive and then flash-heated. The saltiness is probably just from the heating. Sort of like cooking... a cooked steak--even if you add nothing--tastes a bit more salty than a real one. Some of the crickets moisture also evaporates into the can, concentrating solutes in the cricket.

[Leefrogs]

oh, good feedback. I do use vit and calcium. Just not that brand. Vitamin smell like pre-natal. They're whites case any1 wondering. Color might just have to do with possibly being WC. Petco has no answers on age, I doubt they know for sure if CB. I do get live crix every month, but drive 2 hours one way. I also give wax worms and getting ready for minnows. Trying to hatch cric eggs, going to use a lot of crawlers this summer. Irantus-- eewe, live and juicy huh? Well I guess what good for frogs......
Thanks guys!!!

[Iratus ranunculus]

oh, good feedback. I do use vit and calcium. Just not that brand. Vitamin smell like pre-natal. They're whites case any1 wondering. Color might just have to do with possibly being WC. Petco has no answers on age, I doubt they know for sure if CB. I do get live crix every month, but drive 2 hours one way. I also give wax worms and getting ready for minnows. Trying to hatch cric eggs, going to use a lot of crawlers this summer. Irantus-- eewe, live and juicy huh? Well I guess what good for frogs......
Thanks guys!!!

That is the wonderful thing about White's treefrogs. You never have to worry about wild caught animals unless you live in Australia. Australia does not permit the exportation of any of its native wildlife. As a result, the Whites Threefrogs you see on the market are all the captive bred offspring of animals someone smuggled out.

[Greg M]

I thought there are Indonesian Whites that are wc??? However, it still is likely that these are cb...

[Leefrogs]

Ya, they were kinda big when I got them 21/2 and 3. If they were CB, wouldn't they know how old they were? I tried to pry, but manager just seemed helpless on the subject. I needed to know how often to suplement, too much is bad too.

Grasshoppers have parisites?? I have abundance if them in summer and were planning on using them, so should I not, or just pancure once a month?