Grey Tree Frog Diet

[Kurt]

Well the size of cricket you would use with this little guy would be to small to cause an infestation.

[John]

I disagree about throwing them up - waxworms are hard for some species to digest and I've seen them come out the other end almost untouched.

[Kurt]

I have never seen this.

[McLaura]

Just thought I would jump back in and clarify - the worms were definitely coming out in the poop. I was still feeding them fruit flies as well, and so the worms were basically encased in the poop and were a tiny bit digested as they were pretty slimy looking, but they weren't throwing them up. I figured it was just because they were too young to digest something like that.

[John]

I think it's a size issue - too big a wax worm for too small a frog. You can solve this though - use a pin or something to pierce the wax worm a few times before feeding it to the frog. I know it sounds disgusting but it works.

[Kurt]

When insect are thrown up there stuck together and look like a poop made out of bugs. I have seen it several times.

[McLaura]

I got two dozen 1/8" crickets this weekend to see how Lewis would like them, and he definitely was more excited to eat them than the fruit flies! I think I will be moving to the crickets as a main staple food now.

[Kurt]

Very good. I would still feed him fruit flies for variety.

[jtay]

I disagree about throwing them up - waxworms are hard for some species to digest and I've seen them come out the other end almost untouched.

I have once seen a hardly digested waxworm larva in one of my frogs poos.
I figured I fed her too many during the previous feed.