Quote Originally Posted by IvoryReptiles View Post
Not at all.........it makes your choice of words a mistake that you apologized for. Not jumping or riding you, just stated what I did for others to learn from too. We have ALL done it at least 5 times in our lives.......pretty sure I have done it more.
My Husband & I have been working with reptiles for over 15 years each. We started breeding the cranwelli a few years back and they were our first attempt at breeding amphibians. It has been exciting & enriching experience. We have never had any issues with feeding the carnivorous frog food or newt bites to our frogs. We do always either grind it up in a spice grinder (dedicated to that purpose) and add water to make a dough-like substance to tong feed them balls of it.

I am sorry if I came across as rude ramp, didn't mean to be. We make mistakes and we learn from them. It helps if we help each other along the way too.
All I ment to say was; "Please don't feed the dry pellets as it CAN couse problems". And yes I sometimes make a mistake in spelling, All day I have to be ready to speak, read and write 4 different languages, so I sometimes mess up. As I said somewhere, I work at an importer of reptiles and amphibians as head of animals (not to brag, believe me) and started as a simple employee at the same firm, taking care of all kinds of critters. I bred Mantella species, so long ago, in the time when they still all were called species and didn't have avalid name.
I learned a lot a long the way, mostly from mistakes I made. Back then there was almost no literature and certainly no forums. I was glad there was a little bit of internet back then.
The way you prepare your dry food, I completely agree on, specialy since you give it as a supplement, not as main food. No prepared foods can replace what animals find in nature, even the live food we 'cultivate' to feed our animals.
The main reason i joined this form is to learn too. I would like to try breeding the Ceratophrys myself in time. This would propably be the first here in Belgium. All Pac's here are actualy imported from the US and some from Asia. so why not give it a try and do my best.

Ok, let's forget the incident and move on so we can enjoy our hobby once more.