Tree Frog Question - How Often To Give Vitamins?

[tankogradets]

I have a tree frog - see image below (meet La Frog - in his nighttime-light-glory :-)).

I have had him for about three or four weeks now. About a week ago or so I ran out of vitamins (calcium?) that I used to put on the crickets for him. The lady at the pet store did not know what kind I should get, so I got food for my crickets (liquid and hard)instead, thinking that if I gave the right food to the crickets, it would be beneficial for La Frog as well. In the meantime, I have NOT been giving him any vitamins.

I have noticed that he hasn't been as green as he used to be in the first couple of days. Instead, his body is brownish. His terrarium is clean, he does poop (and I clean it out), and I change his water daily. Humidity is good (night - 65%-ish, day - 70-75-ish), temperature is good (night - 70-ish, day - 80-ish). Do I need to go back to sprinkling vitamins on the crickets before I give them to him? If so, how often? Daily? He does eat them well - gobbles them up pretty quickly.

Thank you for your responses.

Max

[InfinitysDaughter]

I'll probably get chastised for it but I dont give my frogs vitamins. I gut load with flukers vitamin orange food and water supplements. I dust with calcium dust once a week, though, sometimes more (I do it when I get new crickets because they dont get a chance to get gut loaded with vitamins. frogs have a hard time digesting both at once).

It sounds like your frog is just changing color since everything else is a ok. I'm assuming a Whites? I cant tell really from the pic so its just a guess. My Azy changes from green to brown and back all the time. And my Percy (an american green) does the same thing.

[tankogradets]

Thank you. Yes, he is a Whites Tree Frog.

Follow up question - do you "dust with calcium dust" the frog, or the crickets? Thanks again.

[Kristen]

Follow up question - do you "dust with calcium dust" the frog, or the crickets? Thanks again.

The crickets

[tankogradets]

Thank you. Appreciate the input.

[InfinitysDaughter]

Jep. The crickets. ^w^ Just get a little sandwich baggie or something similar, add dust and a few crickets and shake well. Not too hard but just enough to coat the crickets with the dust.