Pixie feeding.

[Truffs1178]

Now that he is over 4 months old and over six inches I am going to feed him less regularly. Is this a good feeding plan or does it need changing.

Monday-Calcium+D3
Tuesday-No food
Wednesday-Calcium+D3
Thursday-No food
Friday-Calcium+D3
Saturday-Multivitamin
Sunday-No food

[GRABibus]

Hey,
that is too much D3 and calcium according to me.
Also, which preys do you provide ?

At 4 months old, I should feed 2 to 3 times a week with Dubia roaches and/or nightcrawlers and/or locusts and/or crickets at each meal. You can give a dead mice (Size according to your frog), one per month or one every other month.
I should dust only one prey with calcium + D3 one week, then the week after only calcium and multivitamin.
Too much vitamin can be worst than vitamin carency and you frog is no more a juvenile.

[Truffs1178]

Oh really? So do you think he may be unhealthy now because of how much calcium he has been getting?

He eats worms, crickets, roaches, pachnoda grubs and a mouse, rat or chick once a month. He mainly eats locusts though as those are his favourite.

[GRABibus]

I am more concerned with the quantity of vitamins you provide.
Even for a juvenile this is too much.
Amphibians need vitamin but too much can kill them (Kidney disease for example)
I should only dust a prey per week with calcium + D3, then the week after, a prey with calcium + multivitamin (Without D3), then the week after without any calcium and vitamin.

[Truffs1178]

I thought juveniles food should be dusted every other day with calcium and once a week with multivitamin. Not to be rude but I don't think you dust your juveniles food enough if you only give it 1 insect with calcium every three weeks and one insect with multivitamin every three weeks.

[Truffs1178]

How often do the rest of you guys dust your adult or subadult frogs food?

[Lija]

Now that he is over 4 months old and over six inches I am going to feed him less regularly. Is this a good feeding plan or does it need changing.

Monday-Calcium+D3
Tuesday-No food
Wednesday-Calcium+D3
Thursday-No food
Friday-Calcium+D3
Saturday-Multivitamin
Sunday-No food

That is just perfect! I do exactly that, but Sunday is multivitamin and major feeding day for most of mine.

[Truffs1178]

That is just perfect! I do exactly that, but Sunday is multivitamin and major feeding day for most of mine.

So do you think dusting once calcium and once multivitamin every three weeks is too little?

[Lija]

So do you think dusting once calcium and once multivitamin every three weeks is too little?

It is not nearly enough for a growing baby/subadult, and even for an adult. When feeding adult frogs that schedule won't work for most as they don't feed as often as babies, but you can go with the same principle, 2x ca/vit d3, then multivitamins, every second feeding you are not dusting.
Oh wait just noticed that you dust every feeding, gosh, I can't read apparently well then you should slow down and dust every second feeding.

[Mentat]

How often do the rest of you guys dust your adult or subadult frogs food?

For growing frogs feed daily; CA/D3 2X and vitamins 1X weekly on different days with skip day in between. That usually turns out to be CA/D3 Mon & Fri with Vitamins on Wed.

For growing frogs fed every other day (or 1 on 2 off) follow same rotation, just space out supplements a bit more.

For full grown adults, do the same rotation; but changed to bi-weekly or weekly feedings. So they would get around 2 CA/D3 and one vitamin doses a month .

[Truffs1178]

So for now I should dust his meals twice a week with calcium and one meal with multivitamin?

[Mentat]

So for now I should dust his meals twice a week with calcium and one meal with multivitamin?

Depends on what schedule you are. If going with mine and you are feeding every other day; schedule would look like this: Mon CA/D3; Tue Off; Wed no dust; Thu Off; Fri vitamins; Sat Off; Sun no dust; Mon Off; Tue CA/D3; Wed Off; Thu no dust; Fri Off, Sat CA/D3... and continue repeating cycle. Off is no feeding day and no dust is feeding but no supplement day. Can start any time, days were assigned for illustrative purpose .

[Truffs1178]

Ok thanks, I will follow this schedule.

[NialR35]

This is what I do:

Babies: Feed daily, Ca+D3 on Mondays and Wednesday. Multivitamins on Fridays; weekends just regular feeding without supplements.

Subadult/Adult frogs: Depends on feeding schedule. For example my ornate eats only every 3-4 days now so I do one feeding with dusting around 35% of his whole meal with Ca+D3 and the following feeding I do the same but dusting with the Multivitamins. It works great and seems to be a pretty conservative dusting schedule for a sub adult/ grown up.