African Bullfrog Feeding Plan

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Truffs, I have some more information for you that might help, I'll take some pics.

[GrifTheGreat]

I've taken care of that jerk and reopened the thread. He will not be back.

[Truffs1178]

Thanks I don't get what his problem was.

[SCF]

Thanks Grifs. Here's a great example of why you don't need to use any rodents/fowl as a weekly staple.

The quail was born yesterday, it's actually fairly small at 8 grams. The Madagascar hisser is a full grown adult.



It would only take two hissers to be more food than a newborn quail chick. If your interested, I could weigh other insects as well for comparison.

[Truffs1178]

Is it easy to breed madagascar hissing roaches? I already breed dubias so if you could weigh them that would be useful also I dont think I could feed my frog a baby quail now that ive seen that pic its so cute.

[SCF]

Is it easy to breed madagascar hissing roaches? I already breed dubias so if you could weigh them that would be useful also I dont think I could feed my frog a baby quail now that ive seen that pic its so cute.

I'll weigh some and post pics. Yeah, like I said in Emily's thread, it's not fun to cull or feed off quail. I do it on occasion due to bad hatches or birth defects. The quail in her thread and this one here will go to people as pets.

Edit: Hissers are easy to breed.

[Truffs1178]

Oh good. I would have felt sorry for them babies.

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Here is an adult dubia's weight.

[Truffs1178]

Thanks for that. My bullfrog is still just a baby so I have plenty of time to prepare what I will feed it when it's fully grown. Here's a picture of it now just as I am about to change his water bowl. I have to change it daily because he does all his business in there which is great because the rest of his tank doesn't get messy. Everyone on the forum who I've asked thinks its a boy which I am very pleased about.

[flybyferns]

Wow , problem solved - and Truffs gets the thread back. Phew !
I'll be getting get back to tree frogs now!
Lynn

[Heatheranne]

Just pooped in to see how things are going and found this.

Guys, please try and help the new members. A little humor is okay, but let's not steer them in the wrong direction which could lead to an ill or dead frog.

Seems all is resolved now. Thanks!

[ejh805]

Just pooped in

[Truffs1178]

Well at the minute mine is only a baby at around 3 inches long so how often would you recommend dusting insects with calcium and vitamin? I currently dust every other day with a combo of calcium and vitamin like I was originally told. Is this ok? The product is Komodo Amphibian Insect Dusting Powder. It would be really helpful to me if anyone could look this up and tell me if I am using it correctly. I presume I am though because that's what I was told to do when I first got it.

[Lija]

no it is not ok and that is why i think all those mixes with ca and multivitamins is not something to be used. Fast growing baby needs more ca/vitd3 then vitamins and if you use combo powder he'll get too many vitamins that would lead to not-so-good things, but at the same time he won't get enough Ca that would lead to also not-so-good problems. so you need following schedule:
every second feeding use Ca/vit D3 and once a week multivitamins, but not together. my favorite product line is repashy, their powders are very fine and covers insects/worms very nicely, but reptical ( for Ca/vit D3) is great too. i don't know what is available around you, but look for ca supplements that would have vit D3 as well as separate multivitamins.

will look for your supplement in a minute

[Lija]

i wasn't able to find contents if that powder you have, would you be able to post a pic of it ( should be on a bottle), based on a description is is a mix of everything = not so good, but i might be wrong, hard to say without knowing what is inside.

[Truffs1178]

no it is not ok and that is why i think all those mixes with ca and multivitamins is not something to be used. Fast growing baby needs more ca/vitd3 then vitamins and if you use combo powder he'll get too many vitamins that would lead to not-so-good things, but at the same time he won't get enough Ca that would lead to also not-so-good problems. so you need following schedule:
every second feeding use Ca/vit D3 and once a week multivitamins, but not together. my favorite product line is repashy, their powders are very fine and covers insects/worms very nicely, but reptical ( for Ca/vit D3) is great too. i don't know what is available around you, but look for ca supplements that would have vit D3 as well as separate multivitamins.

will look for your supplement in a minute

Please could you recommend to me and actual product (not brand) that is a good calcium and d3 combo and another for multivitamins. If you could recommend a few then that would be helpful because you probably get different stuff where you live.

[Truffs1178]

Is the exo terra stuff good? They make a calcium powder, a calcium+d3 powder and a multivitamin powder. Take a look on the exo terra website under nutrition in the products section.

[Lija]

yeah exo terra is a good stuff, i'm looking for some links for repashy

[Truffs1178]

Ok so how many times a week would I use the exo terra calcium+d3 and how man times a week the exo terra multivitamin and on how many insects?

Remember this is for a baby frog about 3 inches long.

Also it says on the calcium powder and the multivitamin powder that its suitable for reptiles and amphibians but on the calcium+d3 powder it says suitable for reptiles. It doesn't even mention amphibians. Will it still be ok?

[Lija]

ok repashy:
-ca/vit d3 REPASHY SUPERFOODS :: SUPPLEMENTS :: CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS :: SuperCal MeD -
-vitamins ( my very favorite by far) REPASHY SUPERFOODS :: SUPPLEMENTS :: OTHER SUPPLEMENTS :: SuperVite -


Repti Calcium® with D3
Exo Terra : Calcium + D3 / Calcium + D3 Powder Supplement
Exo Terra : Multi Vitamin / Multi Vitamin Powder Supplement
Rep-Cal Supplements

but there are so so many different ones