Horned frog supplements

[Herpvet]

Hi all,

I have just purchased a baby albino horned frog and have been doing a lot of research to ensure I have a happy lil froggy.

However one thing is unclear in my mind, as most care sheets advise different things...

How often should I be supplementing my baby horned frog?

Also do the supplements need to be just for amphibians or can you use the same supplements as you would for reptiles? As I have a lot of this stuff already.

Please advise, thank in advance

Hello,

It depends on what you're feeding him. I completely agree about feeding a variety.

Captive (shop-bought) invertebrates need supplementing every feed ("a light dusting")- I generally recommend alternative days of multivitamin/calcium (eg nutrobal) and straightforward calcium carbonate powder while growing, dropping the nutrobal back to weekly for adults (calcium carbonate the other days).

Generally garden invertebrates (earthworms etc) should not need supplementation, although for a growing frog I would use multivitamin dusting about weekly.

Vertebrates in theory need no supplementation, although it depends somewhat on how they were treated prior to killing.

Having said all that, it's not an area where we have all the answers - I've seen animals that should have been fine be horribly deficient, and vice versa. Ideally serial radiographs could monitor the situation and allow some degree of titration of dosing, if you could afford to go that far : ).

Hope this helps,

Bruce.

[Loz]

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the info Herpvet, very helpful.

Cheers