Hi, Frank Indiviglio here. I’m a herpetologist, zoologist, and book author, recently retired from a career spent at several zoos, aquariums, and museums, including over 20 years with the Bronx Zoo.
Frog owners have recently been presented with an interesting alternative to live insects and rodents as a pet food source. Continuing its trend of pioneering innovative, well-researched products, Zoo Med has introduced a powdered food that can be molded into various sizes and tong-fed to frogs. Although long-term studies on the value of commercial diets are lacking, experience indicates that some prepared/artificial diets have proven very useful. For example, thousands of generations of Mexican Axolotls have been bred (in research labs) on beef liver alone, African Clawed Frogs and many newts do well on Reptomin-based diets, and trout chow seems useful for American Bullfrogs. In both in zoos and my own collection, I have raised Mexican Axolotls and various newts, salamander larvae, and tadpoles primarily on trout chow and Reptomin. Zoo Med’s Pacman Food is eagerly accepted by African Bull and Horned Frogs (no surprises there -please see video below!) and Marine Toads. It’s likely that other “bold” amphibians, such as White’s Treefrogs, Fire Salamanders, American Toads, would be willing give this untraditional food a try as well. Read the rest of this article here Zoo Med Pacman Frog Food for Horned and Bullfrogs | That Reptile Blog
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That sounds interesting
My Cranwell's actually prefers this food to everything but nightcrawlers. I am still working out an acceptable food rotation, but this has been a lifesaver as he has become increasingly picky about his food. (Every new feeder I try now has to have a backup plan for what to do with the excess when he spits them out.)
Granted, my friend's frog refuses to touch it. He's using it as gutload.
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated...and good idea re using as a gutload. I've used earthworms/nightcrawlers as a large part of the diet of many amphib species, great as a base food, easy to gut load if you want to set up a colony also: A Nearly Perfect Reptile and Amphibian Food: Rearing and Using Earthworms best, frank
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