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Hey guys. I've never fed crickets to my animals before, but now that I'm thinking of getting an american toad, I'm gonna start. So I have a couple questions mainly about the size of the crickets. First off, do certain size adult animals need certain size crickets? If so, how do you determine what size cricket? Second, I heard that some small animals need certain age crickets, such as 1 day old crickets, but what happens when the day is over? Then their 2 days old and you have to go out and buy crickets again, right? But don't crickets come in large quantities? So you would go out and buy like 2 dozen crickets, use like 6 and then go out and by crickets again. I know, kind of confusing. I think it's the OCD.jk
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2 Taricha granulosa
1 male Terrapane carolina carolina
10 gal. tropical fish tank.

As a general rule food items shouldn't be any longer than the distance between the predators eyes. Probably half the distance in some larger critters, and yes, with baby anything you must use as small as possible whether that be day old crickets or fruit flies.

Quig

If something eats "one day old crickets". That just means that it eats really tiny crickets, or pinhead crickets. They don't nessesarilly have to be one day old, they just have to be really, really small crickets.
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