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    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.
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    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.

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    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.
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    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.

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    Default Re: Pixie feeding.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truffs1178 View Post
    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 .
    Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog !​

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    Default Re: Pixie feeding.

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

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