Stubborn pacs and waxworms

[GrifTheGreat]

First off, wax worms are not a good staple diet. They are fatty and less nutrious and if fed in large quantities can cause impaction. Try nightcrawlers/earthworms; they are much more nutritious and you can cut chunk off to the appropriate size for each frog. (General rule of thumb is nothing bigger than the distance between the frog's eyes.)

A lot of diet and whether they will eat from tongs has to do with the individual frogs. I've had some that eat from tongs the first night and some that take a couple months to get used to them. The main reason for tong feeding is to reduce the amount of substrate that they injest. They each also have individual likes and dislikes of different foods. I prefer to diversify their diets as young as possible; it helps get them used to eating different foods and gives them a diverse diet which is healthier. You may have difficulty feeding other food items to an older frog who has been raised on one type of food only. Do not withhold food from your baby pacman to try to get him/her to eat other food. That is a crutial growth period and he/she needs all the nutrition they can get! Keep offering the worms, but if the frogs isn't interested give the crickets.

I will write more later, but my lunch break is over :-/ Just wanted to get a quick reply to you!

[IvoryReptiles]

Grif is correct. Waxworms should not be a staple diet, but a treat. Nightcrawlers/Earthworms are a good staple diet worm and are much more affordable too. The smaller frogs need to be offered food nightly. They may not eat nightly, but as Grif stated, this is a crucial growing point in life and they need to pack in all they can to grow strong & healthy. They are individuals, and will not always like the same foods everyone else's frogs like.
The older frogs may eat less than the younger ones, but it also depends on how much you are feeding nightly. Also feeding in the evening is better since they are nocturnal. There are many foods you can offer to give them a varied diet : crickets, earthworms, hornworms, dubia roaches, waxworms, Samurai Pacman Food.
If you have only a few frogs and feed them the Samurai food, it's convenient. It is cost efficient and is claimed to be a complete diet, so no need for supplements & calcium is needed when feeding it as a staple food.

[dpcsquid]

Thanks so much to both of you guys! I'll go out and get some nightcrawlers tomorrow. Hopefully they'll take to them well. The idea of chopping them up kinda...((shudder))...but anything for my frogs!