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I recently obtained a albino pacman frog, C. cranwelli, and am pondering what I'll feed it as it grows larger. Which led me to wonder-why are field crickets not available? You know the ones I mean, the big black buggers.. It probably takes 3 or four of the domestic crickets used as feeders to make one good sized field cricket. It seems to me that they would make a larger meal, bridging the gap between the standard crickets and roaches. (Roaches, by the way, won't be a feeding option here.) I'll be pretty much stuck with standard domestic crickets, night-crawlers, and very infrequent frozen mice. And maybe the odd guppy once in awhile.
I've been googling both pet food and biological suppliers and I haven't seen them for sale at any of them. Are they difficult to culture, making large scale production impractical? Or is it just a lack of demand? I did read that the eggs of the northern species require a cool period, maybe that is part of the reason they are not raised commercially. Has anyone ever seen them offered for sale?
I'd be afraid to feed wild-caught ones here, though the threat of pesticides would actually be pretty minimal. I'd be more concerned about some kind of parasite making a crossover. I did give one to a Rose-Hair tarantula once. It kept him occupied for quite awhile with no ill effects. But I was nervous about it for several days and decided not to try it again.
I've been googling both pet food and biological suppliers and I haven't seen them for sale at any of them. Are they difficult to culture, making large scale production impractical? Or is it just a lack of demand? I did read that the eggs of the northern species require a cool period, maybe that is part of the reason they are not raised commercially. Has anyone ever seen them offered for sale?
I'd be afraid to feed wild-caught ones here, though the threat of pesticides would actually be pretty minimal. I'd be more concerned about some kind of parasite making a crossover. I did give one to a Rose-Hair tarantula once. It kept him occupied for quite awhile with no ill effects. But I was nervous about it for several days and decided not to try it again.
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