I am interested in buying some night crawlers . You can't use live bait fishing in freshwater here. No one here in Juneau sells them.
You can buy some online
Can you find worms for vermicomposting for sale in Alaska? Red Wrigglers, Eisenia fetida, are a standard composting worm and also work for frog food.
Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog !
I have a 3 inch Horned Frog. We have earthworms here but I would be concerned about parasites. Can't buy any worms here.
For what it's worth, earthworms are often on peoples 'safe' wild caught food lists so I've always assumed they're low on parasites that can affect amphibians but don't know for sure. For example http://www.frogforum.net/tree-frogs/...ght-foods.html and FEEDERS: Collecting Earthworms - Â*BambooZoo. I've also used wild caught night crawlers for years with no issues (with treefrogs, I've no experience with horned frogs). Make sure you're collecting from a chemical free area though if you go this route.
These people are located in Alaska and sell Red Wrigglers (though they don't give the scientific name but Eisenia fetida are the usual suspects for composting): Buy Worms And Bins » Worms And Stuff so shipping would likely be cheaper than ordering some version of night crawler from the lower states. But do take Carlos' post into consideration if you opt to try Red Wrigglers.
Earthworms do carry amphibian parasites. They can sometimes be found in the soil where the worm lives. Of course once the worm eats the soil it also ingests the parasite's eggs which they become larvae within the worm and once eaten by the true host they become adults and breed. Even store bought worms can contain them depending on the source of the worms. Parasites are literlly everywhere and are encountered everyday, but most of the time the body destroys them before they can become a threat.
I made the mistake of buying some Red Wrigglers from Petco here in Juneau. That's before I found out they taste bad to Horned Frogs. I'll check out various places on the computer that sell Night Crawlers.
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