Title: What To Feed?
Description: New frogs
Gena - November 15, 2005 05:30 PM (GMT)
I have new baby frogs and toads the size of your thumbnail and I can't get a hold of any pinhead crickets up here in P.A. any ideas what to feed them I have purchased frog bites but they don't seem to want these at all I suppose they prefer live food, The Maelworms are bigger than they are!
Robyn - November 15, 2005 06:01 PM (GMT)
Here are some options for tiny live food: pinhead crickets, wingless fruitflies, baby mealworms (have to breed them yourself probably), blackworms, and tiny bugs from a chemical-free yard/woods such as pill bugs. Ask your local aquarium store what they have. Frogs and toads pretty much only will eat live food or food they think is live (you can try to move it to see if they grab for it). The frog bites are for African dwarf frogs and African clawed frogs. I've yet to see my African dwarf frogs eat them though. I presume your baby frogs are terrestrial.
Gena - November 21, 2005 08:56 PM (GMT)
Actually i think these babies are tree frogs because they have little suction cup feet and are on the side of the terrarium they are in, they don't seem to be eating the tiny crickets who are about the same size they are, these babies are tiny.
Gena - November 21, 2005 08:57 PM (GMT)
Also many of them drowned when they became frogs, I had to pull them out of the aquarium with the turtle dock in it myself,,,
Robyn - November 22, 2005 04:09 PM (GMT)
Maybe try to get some wingless fruitflies. They should be small enough. Maybe the pinhead crickets you got aren't really newborns which are only about 2 mm long but a few weeks old (most pinhead I see sold are about 5 mm long) because they actually are smaller than adult fruitflies.