What food for my whites tree frog??

[DonLisk]

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

Hahahaha Yeah, our local shop gets them but places like Petco only get the winged ones.

[GrifTheGreat]

I actually don't mind the sound of Cricket chirping. I lived in the country for the better part of my life so doesn't bother me. The Brown crickets aren't very loud compared to Ohio's native black crickets. They get huge, fat, and have very large heads. A really loud extended high pitched chirp. It would echo through the house. They're a very pretty gloss black too. I always thought they were cute. They're the only cricket I thought was Lol

[Kristen87]

I hate the sound of the little brown ones! On the weekend we caught some massive black ones - probably like the ones you're talking about Grif. Their chirp is louder but I think its a prettier sound lol. May not get them again for a while though, they were a little bit big for my 12month old white's... One of them left the head and two front legs thrashing about out of his mouth for ages (she's not very good at shovelling food in when she misses her target a bit). It was one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen next to the time she ate a Christmas beetle which we thought had been swallowed until she opened her mouth and it tried to climb out like something out of Aliens vs Predators haha.

[Small Pet Feeders]

We like to feed our Red eye Treefrog 1/2" crickets and small dubia roaches. Hydei fruit flies make for an interesting scatter game too!

[Clarabell]

Well I got my tree frogs today, let them settle in and traveled the 16 miles to fetch the crickets and.................... they had none!! all they had were mealworms, so gave them a few meal worms tonight, they seem rather happy with them but tomorrow off to a friends house to have some crickets off him whilst I wait for the store to get some more in stock, which wont be for 3 days.

Oh and want to know the real downer of the situation?? I asked "well what are you feeding the pet store reptiles? Can I not have a few of their crickets? As I have 2 baby Whites tree frogs that really need feeding..." The Girl looked at me and replied "the reptiles have just got to eat the dead crickets in their tanks until we get more"

Yeah so they are being reported in the morning and Il be writing a few angry letters!

[mim]

right ill try again-just did this on my fone for the battery to die before i could post it lol
i feed my whites crickets, mini mealworms (not that they seem bothered by these) and wax worms. u can get all of these delivered by pets at home and even tho they use royal mail they get here pretty quick. theres quite a few sites online that will deliver but u have to pay postage (as with p.a.h). failing that u could always breed them.
u can also feed whites locusts, roaches, i think theyll eat most bugs. i just got some calci grubs for mine today. well have to see if they like them. they seem to prefer crickets. u can feed them earthworms from the garden-make sure no pesticides etc!! these will need cuttin up (hence i have not tried these on my frog, just cannot face choppin up a worm).
tip: when u do buy crickets give them some lettuce or somethin else to eat (lots on here about it) and itll keep them alive longer. saves u using just half a tub and the other half dying.
make sure that whatever u r feedin them that it is no bigger than the ditance between their eyes and that u calcium dust them.
good luck

[Cronopio]

Mim and others, I'm curious that not more of you mention or use Dubia roaches -- from reading, I understand that they are higher in protein to shell ratio? Currently we have Fred on a diet of primarily roaches, with a treat of crickets about once a week or so -- he likes the crickets better because they are easier for him to catch. We like the roaches better because they don't die off so quickly and they don't smell.

Thoughts on the dubias? Is there a downside that I'm overlooking?