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I recently purchased 24 crickets two days ago and started to feed them fish flake food and they changed to a reddish brown color instead of the light brown normal color. Is this normal? :?
Through extensive reading of the goldfish food label it says it increases color and vitality but I thought that applied to goldfish only. It boggles my mind that the crickets are changing physical coloration without molting based on the color of the fish flake food I feed them.cacoseraph said:i've read about a number of different spiders that change color based on what they've been eating...
no idea about crix though
Good point. That helps alotBayushi said:look at it this way.. a brighter coloured prey is an easier to find prey for your scorps/T's/whatever....
Little is known about what colors (if any) a tarantula can see but, brighter colors are seen more easily.Snipes said:hold the phone, i thought tarantulas cant see red colors :?
It is probably done through dyes, in which case the dye would affect the crickets just like the gold fish.stonemantis said:Through extensive reading of the goldfish food label it says it increases color and vitality but I thought that applied to goldfish only. It boggles my mind that the crickets are changing physical coloration without molting based on the color of the fish flake food I feed them.
So if you dye the cricket's food then there's a chance that they can become that color? LOL That gives me an idea for a new assortment of live rainbow crickets. LOLWindchaser said:It is probably done through dyes, in which case the dye would affect the crickets just like the gold fish.
Considering that they have almost no sight whatsoever, what gives you this idea?stonemantis said:Little is known about what colors (if any) a tarantula can see but, brighter colors are seen more easily.
Any reason to believe these artificial colors/dyes could adversely affect whomever consumes the cricket?Windchaser said:It is probably done through dyes, in which case the dye would affect the crickets just like the gold fish.
stonemantis said:I recently purchased 24 crickets two days ago and started to feed them fish flake food and they changed to a reddish brown color instead of the light brown normal color. Is this normal? :?
I've seen it tried.. a number of people in a group experiment fed flies that were fed with food mixed with blue dye to a number of VFT's, (Venus flytraps) to see if the leaves would turn blue.. it didn't workstonemantis said:So if you dye the cricket's food then there's a chance that they can become that color? LOL That gives me an idea for a new assortment of live rainbow crickets. LOL