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    FLUXCORE
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    Default Frog ate some oatmeal ?

    My frog incidentally ate some oatmeal, he should be fine right? The super worms I got came in raw oatmeal and he seen me tweezering out a few and lunged at the container causing it to fall in the feeding tank and he went nuts eating the worms and the oatmeal along with em.

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    Locascio
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    He should be fine. Watch out for anything out of the ordinary in the next few days
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    He should be STRONGER now! I personally wouldn't worry about it.

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    Default Re: Frog ate some oatmeal ?

    Look out for any bloating. Oatmeal expands when wet and he will not digest it properly because their systems aren't designed to process plant matter. He may also have some odd bowel movements(runny stool).


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    Herpguy
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    Your frog WILL be fine. What do you think happens when they grab an insect in the midst of brush in the wild?

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    Default Re: Frog ate some oatmeal ?

    Quote Originally Posted by FLUXCORE View Post
    My frog incidentally ate some oatmeal, he should be fine right? The super worms I got came in raw oatmeal and he seen me tweezering out a few and lunged at the container causing it to fall in the feeding tank and he went nuts eating the worms and the oatmeal along with em.

    I would not let it do it too often, gluten is not something IŽd recommend.
    As someone said, it swells up, may cause compaction.

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    FLUXCORE
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    He seems ok maby a little bloated but that's most likely because he ate 5 huge hornworms, 25 superworms and a pack of dew worms with his oatmeal, he eats like this once or so a month and will go two or three days without eating, then it's back to every other day and smaller (still huge) meals. I bring his tank temp up to 87F / 88F after a huge meal to help him digest better to

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