Clawed frogs and roaches

[xxianxx]

Can you feed roaches to ACF`s ? or is there a risk of impaction from chitin ? i have looked on line for information on this matter and cant find any posts. Thanks.

[ViperJr]

I do not now much about clawed frogs, but roaches (blaptica dubia) are amongst the most common staple diet feeder there is. I'm prettt sure clawed frogs can eat them as well, unless they're very different from other amphibians.

[Jakub T]

Hi xxianxx!
Insects (roaches, crickets, moths) are good food, but I use them only as an addition (good way is break away their hard legs and heads). The primary food for my frogs are earthworms.

[tgampper]

Feeding roaches are fine. ACFs are not picky eaters

[xxianxx]

Thanks for the information, i am considering using roaches as an additional food item for my ACF`s i mainly feed them earthworms at the moment. Is there any particular species that would be the most beneficial to use?

[ViperJr]

If you ask me, blaptica dubia are the nicest roach, since it's so easy to breed and to keep. They also have very good nutrition value.

[berksmike]

I actually use sinking pelleted food as the primary foodsource and just supplement with crickets and worms. The pelleted diet is for aqautic amphibians and so is a perfectly balanced diet and are highly scented so they respond to them really well too:

Pollywog

[xxianxx]

Thanks guys , my wife has vetoed a roach farm and threatened me with harm if i bring any into the house lol

[ViperJr]

Thanks guys , my wife has vetoed a roach farm and threatened me with harm if i bring any into the house lol

Just veto the veto and you're good to go!
On a more serious note, berksmike's food option looks really nice. Not everyone have the luxuary of feeding pellets to their frogs!

[xxianxx]

Just veto the veto and you're good to go!
On a more serious note, berksmike's food option looks really nice. Not everyone have the luxuary of feeding pellets to their frogs!

The pellets will be available online

[SanderB]

I have fed my Xenopus laevis some Blaptica dubia and they are still alive so no problem.
I have 5 species of roaches:
Blaptica dubia
Archimandrita tesselata
Gromphadorhina portentosa
Eublaberus posticus
Blaberus discoidales