What food for my whites tree frog??

[Clarabell]

Ok so complete newbie!
I live in the middle of nowhere in devon, uk, and unfortunately am limited on pet shops.
I don't yet own my tree frogs I'm currently setting up their home and researching.
Went into my local store to ask advice on food, the people in the shop have no idea about tree frogs or food and so I wrote down what they have and thought I'd ask you guys what you would buy, so here's my choices,
Locusts
Hoppers
Silent crickets
Brown crickets
Black crickets

Is one better than the other or should I mix it up and feed them all?
The store also has wax worms and meal worms and apparently I can order in pinkie mice,

Also they dont sell gut loader or calcium dust so can u rev come d any good Internet sites for these? Preferably uk.

Thank you in advance!

[DonLisk]

Hi ClaraBell
Thanks for doings your research before bring home a new frog :-)

Your Whites Tree Frog will need to have a main diet of crickets. The silent crickets are just wingless and will cause less hate and discontent in your home at night :-)
You need to have crickets that are no longer then the distance between the frogs eyes.
Your also going to need to dust the crickets every other day with a calcium supplement. your pet shop will have this.

You can occasionally provide a treat such as a mealworm (not a fan of unless you remove the head) and earthworms are a common item to give them. Some folks also feed their frogs a main diet of roaches and many of the food items can be mail ordered if your having trouble getting them.

Once your frog becomes large enough, a pinkie can be given occasionally also.

[BlueisallIneed]

Crickets only for my White's, I can't do the pinkies. They are too cute lol..My White's been on crickets only for a little over 15 years now..Hes all good, just don't forget to dust them every other feeding with calcium powder!!!

[Clarabell]

Thank you peoples
So it doesn't matter if they are brown/black/silent?
I would never get anything without tons of research, not fair on the animal else

[DonLisk]

Nope, you can use what ever but just keep in mind the size since you don't want to give then things too large to swallow.

I buy the wingless locally for my frogs.

[Kristen87]

Ohmigod... There's such a thing as silent crickets?????????? This info would have saved me weeks of sleepless nights!!! lol