The question of what one feeds a finicky C. cornuta is what lead me to wonder what species one would use as a feeder frog, if needed. Unfortunately, I haven't come across anyone who has successfully kept a C. cornuta, just people saying not to bother with them because their brothers-wifes-cousins-neighbor bought one and it died, or who are very against them being offer in the pet trade for various reasons.

True, but a frog imprinting on one food source is a common issue. I started my big C. cranwelli on dubia and I can't get him to try anything else. Dubia are food to him and everything else is just an annoying intruder in his tank. So, if my dubia colony dies...I might have a problem. I had the same issue with my first bullfrog. He ate two things and ignored everything else. The Xenopus colony we had in a sister lab would occasionally run into issues when they changed food. There would always be several frogs that just refused to eat something new and you had to force feed them.

Yeah...I don't think a mushy thawed frog would be very appetizing. :-X


Quote Originally Posted by DVirginiana View Post
Stay away from feeding frogs. Only reason to do that is with a cornuta or something that won't eat other feeders well. Kind of like when people feed rodents; there's absolutely no benefit to feeding live unless the animal won't take pre-killed. Plus if the frog decides it really likes eating other frogs, you might have trouble getting it to eat other foods that are easier/cheaper when you want it to.

The only way to deal with parasites effectively is freezing (the general time for mice/rats is 3 months, idk if its different for amphibians). But I've known someone who tried that with frogs and said when they thawed they were basically just mush. They may have done it wrong though, idk.