Favorite feed

Fan Tailed Goldfish.... for my Bullfrogs...

Locust, because of the range in size for my different sized frogs and when I see my adult Frog eat an adult Locust, its very impressive.

I hate that they don't have locusts in the US they are like crickets but better.

Locust again, Ease of keeping, they don't smell, don't make any noise and have a great range of sizes.

Originally Posted by Tom Highum

I hate that they don't have locusts in the US they are like crickets but better.

Yeah we do, they are called grasshoppers.

Oh, I don't have a favorite food item. I feed what I have to, to whoever I am feeding. If its a little guy like a dart frog or froglet, then its fruit flies, small crickets, and bean weevils. Other frogs and salamanders and frogs get crcikets mostly and occasionally mealworms or wax worms. The real big guys get lots of crickets the occasional super worm or small mouse. Snakes get the appropirate sized rodent.

Who chose earthworms and slugs? Just curious what you feed them to.

I'm Just curious, but does anyone feed their frogs normal house flies? that's one of my main food for my frogs. Ive never heard any one mention flies apart from fruit-flies that's all.

I kind of wish you could choose more than one item in this poll. It all depends on what is being fed. My Fire-bellies and geckos get a main diet of crickets with mealworms once or twice a week. My African Bullfrogs get a main diet of dew worms, superworms and pinky mice. It's not so much a "favourite" as "what's appropriate for what's being fed".

What is you favorite to deal with? what do your pets like the most?

Depends on the pet, I am afraid. My African Bullfrogs are too big to be sustained on crickets alone anymore. In one sitting, they happily eat 3-4 large earthworms, 2 superworms, half a dozen crickets...I guess I deal with crickets more because of my Fire-bellied toads and geckos, but I have so many MIA's right now, my cats have been kept busy for hours at night. I like worms/mealworms; it would be a toss up between crickets and mealworms/superworms for the croakers and gecks.

My favorite to use are dubia roaches.
They also come in a variety of sizes.
All of my pets love them.
They are nutritious.
Easy to breed/keep.
Don't smell.
pretty quiet.
Easy to handle.
All in all a pretty good staple.

I primarily use canned crickets for gray tree frogs, spring peeper, and american toad. (It took awhile to trick the toad into thinking they were alive.) I also feed them some canned mealworms, canned caterpillars, and any live moths I am able to catch. I have live springtails and sowbugs in the tanks as well.

Canned crickets make up the majority of the diet though.

Wow, I didn't think anybody actually bought those.

Canned food? I usually caught and raised my own food.

This summer I raised all of the above mentioned animals from tadpoles. (I somehow got a peeper tadpole while scooping my bucket back in the flooded woods behind my house collecting water. I heard a bunch of them calling but never say any.)

I started out with live food and then switched to canned once they all became used to hand feeding. It's real easy to get a variety of food this way and its easier to dust the food with calcium.

For the toad I just put him in a plastic container and drop food in front of him. He'll look at it for a second then snatch it up.

I chose other

I usually feed hornworms, silkworms and waxworms. I sometimes get butterworms. I am not into crickets as much.

Lobster Roaches: Nauphoeta cinerea

Advantages:

Quiet.
Odorless.
Fat Breeders.
Have trouble surviving if the escape in temperate climates.
Easy to feed.
High Nutritional value.
Do well on Dry Cat food/Dog food and once a week salad greens.
Cricket crystals provide water easily.
Sizes comparable to crickets.

Disadvantages:

Takes a few months to get good producing cultures going, but still faster than crickets.

They can climb anything, so a barrier substance like Vaseline or an off the shelf product is necessary.

If you live in a subtropical climate, do not use these.

Anyone have any nutritional information on loctus/grasshoppers? I noticed they were conspicuously missing from this chart: Caudata Culture Articles - Nutritional Values

Which was kind of frustrating because I have a lot of grasshoppers around my house and was wondering what a good companion to the crickets I already have would be. (I'm not sure how to breed earthworms/night crawlers and have had no success feeding them to my frogs in previous attempts, mainly because they're too big, they drown, and they apparently don't taste very good when chopped up)