Frenchy is finally eating! Red-Eyed Tree Frog

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Letting him eat roaming crickets is fine, but you should be carefully not to release more than he can eat at a time. Crickets bite and have been known to bite tree frogs while they sleep during the day. Biting is never good...

Also uneaten crickets can stress your frog out if there are to many of them. Another thing to keep an eye out for is dead crickets that have not been eaten. These will foul of the Vivarium soil fast and should be removed asap.


For the above reasons is why we all push bowl feeding. I have never heard of bowl feeding stressing a frog out. It can take them a bit to get the general idea down and adapt to it, but it is a much saver, clear means of feeding your frog.

Supplements should be dusted on the crickets themselves just before offering them as food to the frog. I am not certain, but my guess is that feeding the crickets food laced with the supplements will add little to now benefit to the frog, largely due to the size of dose the frog would need versus the minute amount that the cricket actually ingests and doesn't digest before the frog eats it.

You should rotate between dusting the crickets 4 - 5 days a week with the Calcium w/ D3 added and 1 - 2 days a week of a multivitamin.