Questions about crickets and dusting them with calcium

[Ebenezer Frothingham]

Dust the crickets every other day. Only offer a few at a time until they have been eaten (3 at a time). Offer food daily.
I would need to see the frog to judge the age at all but Amy is correct in that males won't start calling until they are a little more mature and the nuptual pad is showing.

If you soak the frog while cleaning the enclosure, try spraying a squirt of liquid calcium into it's soaking water. Frogs absorb through the skin and it's sometimes easier than trying to get them to eat a powdery cricket.Just be sure that if you use this method to use it at a very light spray.....too much calcium can be just as detrimental as not enough.

Also, change things up by offering appropriate sized chinks of earthworm/ night crawler as well. Variety in diet keeps them active & healthy! Just make sure your source of worms is a good one. Petco, Petsmart & Academy Sports stores carry them (NO worms with dye injections please!!!!!).

Here is a picture I snapped of my frog named Frogg.- i put a quarter next to him to give an idea of size- i just misted her/him, so the flash relects a bit off his/her back. My camera batteries just died, so next time I'll put up a better in focus image.

[Ebenezer Frothingham]

Here are a couple pictures I snapped of my Pacman 4 days ago- He's grown a bit since then:

[Ebenezer Frothingham]

I wish i could figure out the gender...He/she seems to have gotten used to their new home, but is not comfortable enough to eat bugs/worms from tweezers or forceps.

When feeding my frog worms, should the entire worm be covered with the calcium powder (ditto with crickets), or should I just dash one area with powder? I do not want to poison my frog..I'll look into that liquid calcium. Thanks for the advice on chopping up worms- i was feeding my frog whole worms, and he/she did get them down

My frog has a total aversion to being touched- he/she will immediatly jump if touched- so i haven't picked him up. It would be nice though if he/she could be trained to be hand fed (via forceps/plastic tweezers of course)

[GrifTheGreat]

Make sure to keep your frogs substrate moist but not mud. You don't want it to be water logged. There should never be standing water beneath the substrate. Also be sure to give the little guy/girl a tempreture gradient so it can decide whether it wants to be cool or warm.

[IvoryReptiles]

Your frogs are still young. let them at least double in size and then look for Nuptual pads on the thumbs.

First pic is a female's thumbs.....no pads



And here is a male's thumbs with Nuptual Pads



Hope that helps!

[GrifTheGreat]

Your frogs are still young. let them at least double in size and then look for Nuptual pads on the thumbs.

First pic is a female's thumbs.....no pads



And here is a male's thumbs with Nuptual Pads



Hope that helps!

So that dark spot on the thumb is the pad?