Originally Posted by
jasonm96
Crickets won't die if you keep them around 25C, using a heat pad under there tank and feed them well.They are bad for escaping when young but they're fine as adults. I need to order my livefood online and it's better, it's packed fresh rather than sat on a shelve at a pet store with half of the insects being dead.
The problem with superworms is they are hard to digest and feeding them too often will cause impaction. They're not healthy either but can and should be gutloaded or dusted with calcium and vitamins to make up for it. Earthworms are better nutritionally without alteration, but you need a good few foods to make up a well rounded diet. I feed my animals crickets, locusts, roaches, superworms, waxworms, fuzzy mice and nightcrawlers. But other foods are fish (may be diseased or unbalanced nutritionally, so not the best), phoenix worms, fruit flies, bloodworms, woodlice, wax moths (pupated wax worms) and there's probably more. The pacman diet may work with other species, but it depends how tame they or the indivial frog is.
Pinkies should ideally prekilled from the supplier and not by yourself or fed alive; so all you need to do is put them in the freezer, thaw them out and dip in them calcium.
I really wouldn't recommend a Cane toad from past experience. There's a chance they'll be diseased or not adjust to captivity as they're often wild caught. They also need massive enclosures, at least 4ft long. If you do get one, go to store and inspect it before buying it. Ask the staff to offer it food. If it refuses the food, then this is a sign that it's diseased or heavily stressed (which then leads to disease). If it feeds that's a good sign that it may adjust to captivity but you're probably best taking it to a vet and getting it wormed anyway.
I've not kept pipa pipa, so I cant offer anything on that frog unfortunately.