Contrary to the popular opinion mice are not "high" in lipids and fats particuarly if you are comparing them to crickets and other commercial feeders. They are pretty much the same on a kcal basis (which is how diets are calculated out). They're are multiple cases of corneal lipidosis occuring in anurans that have only ever been fed invertebrates.
The problem comes into play with fact that rodents are much more nutritionally dense than crickets and people tend to overfeed the frogs. For example a pink mouse the same size as an adult cricket weighs the same as an 3-4 adult crickets...

Goldfish are not recommended as a staple due to thier high cholesterol content.

Ed

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