Quote Originally Posted by jlfrogfan View Post
Thanks for the good news! I took out the freeze dried food, about a month ago. She didn't lose any weight, though, which I did not expect.
Aquatic freeze-dried food is pretty devoid of any real nutrition. It's known to cause constipation in some aquatic animals if fed too regularly, honestly it's a total waste of money and the lowest tier of quality food for your animals. Smart move on eliminating it, I made the same mistake myself when I first got these frogs and they never seemed to enjoy freeze-dried foods at all.

ACF do get very fat is overfed. Easily solved though, just cut back on feeding, either feed less per meal or feel less frequently. They can skip a meal or two, they are very efficient at living off the fat stored around their kidneys. Eventually their weight will balance out.

Here's how I feed my frogs if you are looking for an example diet:
I usually feed my frogs every other day, some times every third day, depending on the size of their last meal.

The meals consist of one whole earthworm (canadian nightcrawler) or adult reptomin sticks (mixed into clumps with wet/frozen daphnia or mysis shrimp and hand fed). My juvenile frog is fed daily, chopped earthworms or reptomin.

Treats (once or twice a month) are live crickets, these are simply dumped into the tank and I just let them go crazy with it. I used to dump a dozen or so ghost shrimp into the tank and just let them hunt them at their leisure but they stopped selling them around here. Kind of a bummer because not only did these shrimp provide a way for my frogs to hunt but they were pretty efficient scavenging for uneaten foods.