White's tree frog - is he too skinny?

[rosaphile]

Thanks both. Sherry, that is my understanding too, regarding the mealworms and superworms... I don't think the waxworms have chitin but they are not considered a good "staple" diet because they are high in fat. I'm by no means an expert either, but this is what my recall tells me!

Don, literally the only pet stores in my area are Petsmart, Petco, and one or two aquarium specialty petstores. It seems my only options are what I can get from the big chains, or what I can mail order. If I were to order a large batch of crickets online, and put them into a plastic container the way you suggest, wouldn't they grow and get too big before my frogs could eat them all? If we give the frogs 5 or so crickets a day, each, it would take about 7 weeks to go through a batch of 500. I guess I'm a little hazy on how fast the crickets will grow but my recollection is telling me that it only takes about 6 weeks to grow to maturity, is that right?

I'll see if I can find nightcrawlers around here. Not sure if they'll be available for bait seeing as how it's December, but then it hasn't really frozen here yet so maybe. ;P

[DonLisk]

That is true on growth rate so you may be better off with the weekly trip to the pet store.