can I feed to my frog wildcaught frogs?

[demon amphibians]

Also did anyone consider that the frogs in the garden might be toads. Many species of toads are toxic I can go outside right now and find a toad and it will be toxic if consumed. Just food for thought.

[DVirginiana]

Why this persistent interest in feeding your pacman feeder frogs? You've gotten overwhelming response saying that it is a BAD idea. The ONLY situation in which feeder frogs are better than other options is if you have a frog that refuses to eat anything else, and from what you're saying you don't seem to have one of those frogs. Not everyone with cornutas feeds them frogs. I think that may be more of an issue with WC frogs. In addition to providing no benefit that you can't get from safe feeders, and having a lot of associated risks, feeder frogs are more expensive to deal with.

And you're talking about raising them... How would you keep these frogs? There's no way your three pacmans are going to eat enough to put a dent in a breeding population of feeder frogs. And you can't release captive bred feeders into the wild (it's just not ethical. you can't risk introducing disease and new genetics into the wild populations). So are you going to just euthanize the hundreds of tads and froglets that don't get eaten? They don't freeze well. Also, think of the space and filtration equipment you'd need to keep those feeders in humane conditions.

The studies saying that wild horned frogs eat mostly frogs are generally skewed. The only time any number of these frogs can be reliably found and sampled would be during breeding season, when they are surrounded by other frogs. They eat anything that moves. Therefore, during breeding season they eat a lot of other frogs.
Also, their average lifespan in the wild is much less than in captivity, because here they don't HAVE to eat food sources that are potentially toxic or carry parasites.

FYI: None of those frog species you mentioned are native to South America. If you want the frogs that they'd be eating in the wild, you're probably going to have to pay through the nose to buy exotics as feeders.

[GrifTheGreat]

Everything has pretty much been covered on this subject. The risks outweigh any possible benefit from offering wild caught frogs. Just because it is a large part of their diet in the wild doesn't mean it is the ideal feeder to offer our CB Pacmans. You risk killing your frog by catching wild frogs as feeders. Chytrid being a huge killer in this case and possibly spreading through your wholr collectoon before you even realize its there.

Use common sense people.