Super worms & crickets

[1beataway]

Hi there.

What kind of frog are you feeding?

I work in a petstore too, and I have heard several times what you are saying about superworms, but I believe it's just a myth. I haven't fed them to frogs, but I have fed them to bearded dragons, and there's no problems, and I know of a lot of people who feed them without smashing in their heads, and they have no problems. I believe the stomach acid should kill the bugs. That being said, I wouldn't feed them to anything that wasn't quite large. Mealworms seem like a better choice, IMO.

The brown crickets are safe to feed. I think there's a chance of bringing in some germs your frog is not use to by catching wild bugs, but I could be wrong and just overly paranoid.

I have not heard of any cricket shortage. In the summer months, it seems like we do not receive as many crickets alive as the rest of the year, but it always seems to be weather-related. When it's very, very hot, more of our crickets are dead. But this seems to happen only to the prepackaged crickets (in small boxes of 24) rather than to the couple thousands we receive for our cricket bins. We still don't lose but maybe a few percent. Also, I do know that sometimes we won't receive a shipment because it is too hot to ship. I assume in Houston, you might have the same problem. If you're referring more to the cricket virus, from what I've read in threads on this forum, it seems more like poor conditions and not an actual virus.

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Feeding a Pacman and i'm also thinking about making a home to another frog.

[1beataway]

I just saw your other thread. Personally, I think superworms may be too big. Worms like mealworms and the superworms are harder for the frogs to digest, so you don't want to feed them a lot of those. I like the superworms for much larger animals. But others may disagree with me.

I think you said he won't eat mealworms. Have you tried waxworms? I'm not sure how pacmans handle worms like red wigglers or earthworms, but they don't have that hard outer covering. I'll let someone who has/have had a pacman answer (at work, we get them in very tiny, and feed them just crickets, and usually sell them within a few days).

What kind of frog are you thinking of next?