removing cricket legs..

ok, theres gotta be an easier way to go about this...

I just used a pair of tweezers to hold/catch crickets while i clipped off one hind leg to keep them from jumping. This was suggested to me as a mean of feeding my red eye tree frogs as they are housed in a live tank with lots of places for nasty little crickets to hide... I wanted to have an ability to also keep count of what they are actually eating also.

So, any suggestions besides tweezers and scissors. would it be helpful to freeze them for a moment to slow them down? I feel horrible having to do this for them

Sticking the crickets in the fridge will work. Don't freeze them though. Leave them for about 15 minutes and it will slow them down. They do warm up wuick though.

I use to use a vase for flowers a tall one. The crickets couldn't jump out, but the geckos could get in and out and get the crickets. I used that when I had loose substrate. I have since gone back to papertowels.

I am not sure about the frogs? Do they have sticky feet? lol.

Anyway, thats about all I can think of.

Can they eat roaches? If so I would try some B. Dubias. Than can fly or climb. Plus the geckos really, really like them.

eww they can fly and climb or they cant?

i will try the fridge thing next time. they do have sticky feet but they have to actually pounce on their food. right now i have them in a small but deeper than sandwich plastic container one frog is eyeing them bit time while the other remains asleep.

they do have sticky feet ;) more sticky than the cresties actually.

*they can't*

im sorry?

I believe what Richard meant was that B. Dubias "can't" fly or climb

I think :oops:

thanks for clearing that up ashley.. that would be so gross though, i hate cockroaches!

ugh me too, I am actually afraid of them

When I think about it, I don't really understand why they are so scary.

I can't help it, but if one touches me, I almost cry. I live in TX and the biggest one I saw was like 4-5 inches long.

4-5 inches :O
I would have a heart attack.