Questions about crickets and dusting them with calcium

[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?