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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeM670 View Post
    Cut away if you want too. She will be frog food anyways. Just try and gut load them first for a better meal.
    Oh don't worry I definitely gut load. XD I feed them Fluker's Cricket Quencher on a regular basis and then whenever I have random fruit or veggies lying around I feed them that too. Thanks for the advice!
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    Your ethical morality for all creatures "right to life"is admirable but a bit misplaced when it comes to feeling sorry for prey creatures. After all you DID buy the crickets to be fed to the Bruces... and you've likely already fed how many pregnant females to them already with out knowing they could possibly be pregnant... I wouldn't get too upset hon with feeding this one, just because you suspect it's preggers. They likely ALL are. It's the nature of prey creatures, insect or otherwise, to be fruitful and multiply. That's why they have like a gazillion babies... gotta keep the food chain moving

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dog Shrink View Post
    Your ethical morality for all creatures "right to life"is admirable but a bit misplaced when it comes to feeling sorry for prey creatures. After all you DID buy the crickets to be fed to the Bruces... and you've likely already fed how many pregnant females to them already with out knowing they could possibly be pregnant... I wouldn't get too upset hon with feeding this one, just because you suspect it's preggers. They likely ALL are. It's the nature of prey creatures, insect or otherwise, to be fruitful and multiply. That's why they have like a gazillion babies... gotta keep the food chain moving
    Hahaha I completely agree with you Kel, my moral compass can get a bit extreme sometimes. >< I just have a love of animals I guess...even nasty gross crickets and other insects. >> I know eventually I'll feed her to him without guilt, you're right I did buy them for that after all. XD; I'm just a big silly sometimes. ><
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    That cricket is not fully mature, they do not breed until they reach the final instar and develop wings.

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    That cricket is not fully mature, they do not breed until they reach the final instar and develop wings.
    Oh I see, so she can't be pregnant? Then why is she so huge? I guess she was just born that way...?
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    I say start bedding them. You're going to be a new mom again, and with dome Lil guys that'll need little food! Put a to go cup in there with some dirt, 5 of each sex for 10 days, then sacrafice them to the frog god, Bruce. Atleast that way they've lived a full and complete life. But then you'll have 300 or more babies to raise!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leefrogs View Post
    I say start bedding them. You're going to be a new mom again, and with dome Lil guys that'll need little food! Put a to go cup in there with some dirt, 5 of each sex for 10 days, then sacrafice them to the frog god, Bruce. Atleast that way they've lived a full and complete life. But then you'll have 300 or more babies to raise!
    I might have to start thinking about that it could probably benefit me greatly financially in the long run...the only problem is I have nowhere else to keep them. D:
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