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Nutritive benefits for adult non-obligate egg eaters?
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Nutritive benefits for adult non-obligate egg eaters?
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In other words, is it good for auratus, say, to eat other females' eggs? I haven't seen much alarm about this aside from breeding issues, so I assume it's at least not bad for them.

I'm not currently trying to breed the frogs, so if the eggs are actually nutritious, it seems like a win-win form of birth control.

(Caught the beta female today with a line of jelly connecting the clutch and her mouth. In "frogrante" delicto. Although I was mostly sure she was doing it anyway.)
A girl named Joey.
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Egg raiding is common, so I'm sure it's an 'ok' snack...

Just freeze and bleach and flush all the found eggs. Limit deposition sites like film cans and water ect.
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