My ornata has now food preferences : how to manage

[GRABibus]

Hey,

my male ornata ate everything during the first 3 weeks I got him (crickets, roaches, locusts, nightcrawlers).
Now, since 10 days, he clearly shows a preference for nighcrawlers and is not interested anymore by crickets or roaches.
They can run in front of him during a lot of minutes, no way. Except if I force feeding with tong, they he catches them.

How do you manage a pacmn frog whiich intends to eat only 1 type of preys ?

Do you try to not offer anymore this prey during week in order to force him to eat other preys (Crickets and roaches) or do you stay with their preferred prey....with a risk of carency....

[Pyru]

Honestly all I feed is night crawlers now. Crickets are so small that they don't grab mines attention like a long twitching worm. I have not tried dubias but I will probably grab some from a show in the future. Not big loss really crickets are inferior to night crawlers as a feeder and a ton more headache to deal with.

If your dead set on it. A little starvation does wonders.

[monster]

I also pretty much feed just nightcrawlers. crickets get no reaction out of him at all. Nightcrawlers are my staple and every 2 weeks I will give a medium hornworm or 2 smaller ones. or some wax worms, silkworms, or butters. But I don't give him just these on treat night I always will give some night crawler with it. If the butters,wax or silk worms are smaller again I will give him few and if they are bigger I just give him one with some normal worm. I cant get dubias here in Canada so that's not even a option for his diet. And out of all honesty he hasn't ate crickets in about 5 months and he/she is just roughly over six months old and he/she was exactly 4 inches a couple weeks ago when I measured and he/she is very healthy from my observations while being on this diet.

[GRABibus]

Thank you for your answers.
My purpose is that he keeps on hunting and not only tong feeding.
I will try again locusts, as last week, he catched 2 adult ones by hunting.

I will give also pacman food from Samurai, by tong of course.

and I would like to get Goliath worms, but in France it seems to be difficult.

[DVirginiana]

I feed my pac nothing but nightcrawlers. She has a really bad tendency to get impacted and they are the easiest thing to digest. If you supplement correctly, there should be no issue in feeding only nightcrawlers.

There's really no reason to keep them 'hunting' instead of tong-feeding. Jumping at food held in tongs is exactly the same as jumping at food crawling right in front of their face. It's not like with other animals that actually stalk and chase their prey; they literally just sit still and jump at whatever moves in front of their face. So eating just from tongs won't be bad for the frog in any way.