My Pacman Frog eats DRY fish food sticks, is this heathly and can I maintain him on this diet?

[Sublime]

We might need John in this thread?

[IvoryReptiles]

We might need John in this thread?

Why? No one got hurt, no one is bleeding. Apologies have been given and accepted all around.

The dry foods are formulated to be easily digestible and are made that way to avoid any impaction issues. Even so, I pulverize & moisten it. Like I said earlier, I wouldn't necessarily use it as a primary source of food, but it works great for variety.

[cali]

Skippy-
I also had the idea of using fish-food products for frogs. Even though every organism may have different dietary needs- a frog is still a frog.
Basically anything in those fish-sticks represent something that a frog would eat itself, or it's prey would consume.
It's rare to find a safe, known food source that causes health problems in a random species. (Keep in mind that there's always people that have peanut allergys, shellfish allergys, etc.)

I feed my cichlids NLS color enhancing- and the ingredients (although somewhat different from your formula) appear to be a healthy mixture.
I don't tong-feed full pellets to my frog, but rather crush them into a powder for dusting nightcrawlers. I can only imagine the varity of creatures they eat in the wild and NLS seemd to be a good representation of that diet.

As the others stated, "dry" sticks may cause a compaction or swelling problem. (People now throw birdseed at weddings instead of the customary/historical rice because birds eat the dry rice, it swells inside their gullet and they die.)

[Sublime]

Why? No one got hurt, no one is bleeding. Apologies have been given and accepted all around.

The dry foods are formulated to be easily digestible and are made that way to avoid any impaction issues. Even so, I pulverize & moisten it. Like I said earlier, I wouldn't necessarily use it as a primary source of food, but it works great for variety.

Ok good. I just know from firsthand how things escalate quickly...

[Eel Noob]

I feed my frog Massivore Delite pellets to my frogs once in a while. No problems yet.

[ramp]

So back to the original question, should one feed dry pellets to a Pac Man.

- Better not as it may cause health problems?
- Yes, but crushed and moistened so it will not absorb any extra liquids from the intestents?
- Should one feed Fish pellets, dry or crushed and moistened, even when the ingredients look the same as amphibian food?
- What about color aditives to dry fish food?
- How many 'natural' color foods do actualy contain natural coloration aditives and not syntetic? Personaly I've seen fishfood color the aquarium water redish when it starts to soak up water.
- Could the color aditives cause problems. The dry pelleted foods I've seen and used in the past all had a brownish color, propably withouth any color aditives. Could there be a reason for that?
- In the past and present people also use flake food for raising tadpoles. So would there be any harm in using the pellet food on adult frogs? Don't know if it's used in raising the ceratophrys tads.

[IvoryReptiles]

One more time.....

It should be fine to feed them as long as they have been moistened.
I would not recommend to feed it as a staple diet, but as a variety to offer.
The color enhancers do not cause any issues as far as we can tell after 4 years of using the mentioned foods in raising our tadpoles & frogs.
The fish pellets can also be used as a treat as long as it is a carnivorous formula and again, moistened.
Although they are made for easy digestion and will probably break up easily in the digestive tract, why take the chance of causing an issue? Just pulverize it, make a dough and tong feed. Or soak it until soft and tong feed.

I am just trying to help answer your original questions. I don't know everything. But we have all been weighing in to give advice from experience. Hope it helps.

[Minhocao]

When looking at the video PacmanFood, I wanted to copy something similar to give as food occasionally. Use balanced food of American Bullfrog. (Frog extruded). The problem was that frogs defecate very liquid and very ugly smell.
I returned not to use. Studies on ancient items found in stomachs of C.ornata conclude that their main diet is other frogs. As provided in captivity? Frogs healthy, disease free and cheaply, very difficult.
I only use cockroaches, crickets and earthworms as based diet. every 2-3 months a mouse. But I think it lacks the nutrients that food provides the other frogs.
Sorry for my bad English.