Quote Originally Posted by Ra View Post
Rodents, birds,frogs, snakes, lizards etc probably make up about 80%-90% of their diet in the wild.

Crickets have a terrible calcium to phosphorus ratio and offer little calcium and next to no nutrition at all if they are not properly gut loaded. And even crickets can carry parasites. As far as insects go I prefer Dubia roaches and nightcrawlers as staples over crickets. As far as vertibrate prey in captivity, I do feed occassional mice and fat head minnows, but Iam thankful for products like Pacman food that offer a complete diet of whole ground fish with other added nutrients for balance.
Very true. Crickets are notorious for carrying pinworms and other parasitic worms. I dislike crickets as a feeder, but they are very easy to offer to froglets. Pacman Food is an excellent food source, but can be pricey so I only offer it as a treat. I prefer Night Crawlers as a staple and do offer Dubia Roaches as well. Crickets are not even nutritious gut loaded. They are very lacking in almost all aspects of that area. Their spastic movements make them very good a getting a feeding response from your frogs though. I only use them for Baby frogs while teaching them to eat other foods.

It is difficult to offer a wild frog diet in captives. Obesity, Kidney failure, Liver Failure, and Cholesterol build up are serious problems with feeding rodents and fish. Also Cloudy Eyes from too much protein intake which is also common when feeding rodents too often, but this also has a lot to do with climate conditions and all around housing. Correct near unfluctuating climate assists greatly in digestion and metabolizing vitamins and nutrients from food as well as calcium. So I can wild amphibians diet being possibly less hazardous to their health in some ways, but with wild food items their is always far more risk. Another note that can be added though is that the wild frog may have a farely strong immune system to fight off most diseases and parasites.