Care Sheet: Budgett's Frog

[Namio]

Hi Sandy,
Since Ca/vitamin dusting is virtually impossible underwater so how would you get around that? Is there a way to get them to feed on land?
Thanks!

[Sandy Bear]

Adding supplements to a Budgett's frog diet is not impossible, just requires a little more effort.

If your frog is an eager feeder and jumps out of the water for his dinner, tong feeding dusted prey won't be a hassle

If your frog is a little more fussy, you may want to ask your vet for some syringes and inject the prey with the supplements prior to feeding him. I had to do this with medication for a frog that was sick one time.

Exoterra also makes a water conditioner that has calcium supplement added to it.

[Namio]

Adding supplements to a Budgett's frog diet is not impossible, just requires a little more effort.

If your frog is an eager feeder and jumps out of the water for his dinner, tong feeding dusted prey won't be a hassle

If your frog is a little more fussy, you may want to ask your vet for some syringes and inject the prey with the supplements prior to feeding him. I had to do this with medication for a frog that was sick one time.

Exoterra also makes a water conditioner that has calcium supplement added to it.

Thanks for the response, Sandy. I feel silly now because you reminded me of a simpler solution that I totally blanked out on: simply gut load the crickets with the yellow Calcium Gel from Fluker (do not have a water source available, this will force the crickets to eat the gel for hydration), then feed the crickets to the frog. The crickets can now be fed underwater without losing any Calcium that they obtained (as oppose to Calcium dusting the cricket).

[Sandy Bear]

No need to feel silly, there is always different ways to do things. If you learn something new that can help improve what you are doing, that's all that matters.

[Bombina Bob]

One way to add calcium to feeders is to gut load the feeders with calcium dusted
vegitables and dried foods before they eat it, ive been doing this with my crickets
for a while now. and im just wondering, Can Budgett's frogs have a half and half
setup? or do they prefer aquatic setup?

[Namio]

One way to add calcium to feeders is to gut load the feeders with calcium dusted
vegitables and dried foods before they eat it, ive been doing this with my crickets
for a while now. and im just wondering, Can Budgett's frogs have a half and half
setup? or do they prefer aquatic setup?

That is another great idea you have. However, if you do not want to deal with moldy vegies, though, I would suggest using the Fluker's high Calcium cricket diet and Calcium fortified cricket quencher. These one-two punch combo should gutload enough Calcium in crickets.

With the semiaquatic setup, from my understanding, is optional and unnecessary. A captive Budgett's frog will likely stay in water the whole time as long as they have enough water available. They do have the ability to travel on land, but I think they prefer not to unless they have to.