I buy my crickets in bulk (50-100 a week) to feed to my 3 frogs (only one is a pac though). I use Flukers "cricket quencher" and "orange cube-complete cricket diet". The quencher is calcium fortified and the orange cube is vitamin fortified and I usually wait a day before feeding new crickets to the frogs so I'm sure the crickets have had time to load themselves up. But I've never dusted for the tree frogs (I just bought my pacman a few days ago).

I've read the care and breeding guide and it said its best to gut load and dust but from everyone I talk to (co workers and customers alike) the crickets seem to either die from shock before the frogs can eat them or there too stunned to move enough for the frogs to be interested.

I was thinking of buying some captive bread feeders (100% parasite free guaranteed) when Baby gets a little bigger (hes way too small to eat even our smallest feeders right now) because I heard that the calcium from the bones from the occasional (1 or 2 a week or so) fish could make up for the lack of nutrients in crickets.


I was wondering if anyone had an opinion on this. I'm just not sold on the dusting thing if gut loading and the occasional treat of fish and pinkies (pinkies when he gets much much bigger) or some other food source could do the same thing.




Also, my other question. My pacy recently had an eye infection and spent several days back where I got him for treatment. I just got him back Saturday but he hasn't eaten anything at all nor seemed interested in food. He's been in quarantine on moist Paper towels with a UTH on the side of the tank since I got him home just to be sure his eye didn't swell up again. I washed out his old cage with scalding hot water and threw away everything and got all new soil, new water dish, and extras just to be sure he was gona go back into a clean, infection free tank.

I'm going to put his original tank back together today so I guess I'm asking if people think he's not eating because of the strange environment of the quarantine tank and if ya'll think he'll start eating once hes settled back into his "normal" environment.