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

[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.

[ramp]

Thanks for charing the experiance it the dry food.
I saw the 'Samurai' video on dry food formula too and had my doubts on it. I will stick to my diet currently used and maybe try the dry crushed and moistened food as a treat in future.

How often do you dust your live food with calcium and/or vitamins?

[Minhocao]

I use 1 or 2 times a week. (use Reptocal and ReptoLife) One at a time.
The theory says you should gently sprinkle the insect, but not bathing in the dust.
Calcium deficiency as the excess of it, is bad.
In a course that you make in Argentina, given by Durrell and Amphibian Ark. They explained the need for UVB light. Help like reptiles to synthesize calcium and D3. I saw videos of frogs sunning during the day (ex. Gastrotheca sp). A Ceratophrys half buried with his back on the ground surface in full sun. Perhaps when the animal is sufficient to finish completely buried.
I hope you can understand the concept.