African Bullfrog Feeding Plan

[Truffs1178]

Is this a good feeding plan for an adult male African Bullfrog?
The random smiley face was a colon and a D for Dubias but it keeps turning into a face.

Monday:Nothing
Tuesday:Earthworms with calcium+vitamin powder
Wednesday:Nothing
Thursdayubias with calcium+vitamin
Friday:Nothing
Saturday:Frozen food(Need help deciding on healthiest option)
Sunday:Crickets with calcium+vitamin

I know that a mouse a week would cause my frog to turn blind so is it OK to feed any of these frozen food items to my frog once a week, chicks, quails, rats, gerbils, rabbits or hamsters. Will any of these not cause blindness if I feed them to the Bullfrog weekly.

[GRABibus]

For a mature adult, one time or 2 times a week is sufficient (This is what I do for my female and she is perfectly healthy).
At each meal : mix as you feelwith nightcrawlers, Dubia roaches, adult locusts (Cut the back legs), crickets.
One mouse every other month or each month is also sufficient.

So much vitamin can be dangerous honestly.
To my adult female (She is 2 years old), I dust 2 insects per week with calcium only, 1 insect every other week with calcium + vit D3 and 1 to insect per month with multivitamin.
An adult doesn't need so much calcium if there is no carency. Calcium is mandatory at higher quantitites when the frog is in a fast growing process.

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Is this a good feeding plan for an adult male African Bullfrog?

Monday:Nothing
Tuesday:Earthworms with calcium+vitamin powder
Wednesday:Nothing
Thursdayubias with calcium+vitamin
Friday:Nothing
Saturday:Frozen food(Need help deciding on healthiest option)
Sunday:Crickets with calcium+vitamin

I know that a mouse a week would cause my frog to turn blind so is it OK to feed any of these frozen food items to my frog once a week, chicks, quails, rats, gerbils, rabbits or hamsters. Will any of these not cause blindness if I feed them to the Bullfrog weekly.

Those prey items are great, but use vertebrates just as a treat. Your frog will live a perfect healthy life without ever eating any of those items (vertebrates)in it's lifetime. It's not necessary to feed vertebrates. Quail for example are fed a high protein wild bird feed. The protein content is 23%, it's one reason they grow so fast, but they are also always running around and exercising (if you will.) Your frog eats the quail, then it just sits there or burrows. This leads to obesity (same as in humans in most cases.) I do use quail, but on occasion (roughly once a month.) Mice (which you didn't list) are fed on a 18% protein diet, but store more fat than quail. Rabbits/rats/gerbil are all in the same league.

Hamsters (I won't even touch that subject, lol)

Edit: The differences in vertebrate and invertebrate diets are more complex than just high fat content though.

[Ben Harrison]

bullfrogs should eat one green tree python a day as they are highly nutritious and will certainly not die

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Another thing to keep in mind, it's going to be hard to get your frog to cooperate with you with a feeding schedule. Normally they make their own times when they want to eat.

[Truffs1178]

I don't think that will be hard he eats like a monster.

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I don't think that will be hard he eats like a monster.

It will slow down later when it reaches adulthood.

[Truffs1178]

Thanks for that addition to this thread Ben, it surely helped me.

Another thing to keep in mind, it's going to be hard to get your frog to cooperate with you with a feeding schedule. Normally they make their own times when they want to eat.

So is there any vertebrates that I could feed him once a week?

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I pm'ed you with a complete nutritional composition of whole vertebrate prey (excluding fish.)

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bullfrogs should eat one green tree python a day as they are highly nutritious and will certainly not die

I hope no one takes this seriously.

[GrifTheGreat]

bullfrogs should eat one green tree python a day as they are highly nutritious and will certainly not die

Ignore this comment. I'm hoping that it was meant as a joke because it isn't of any help to the OP.

[Truffs1178]

Ignore this comment. I'm hoping that it was meant as a joke because it isn't of any help to the OP.

Actually there is a video on youtube of a bullfrog eating a baby green tree python but obviously the owner didnt know what they were doing.

[Truffs1178]

seriously though you have to feed it five rabbits every 2 minutes so you pretty much just have to live off the government to earn money as all your time will be took up with feeding the huge monster so forget about wife and kids and friends your life partner is a frog for 20 years + now

Excuse me?

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He's just trolling. I'm sure moderators will do their thing.

[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

[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.

[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]

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