Housing White Tree Frogs Together

[Bryan]

Did you get them from the same place?

Yes from Reptile Underground, but they probably from different breeders. The larger one is a blue eyed morph, the smaller is normal. I also bought them 2 weeks apart from one another.

I wouldn't remove the frogs for feeding, just feed at night when they are active and the crickets should be taken fast enough.

Vitamins should be given at the same time as calcium as they work together and insects should always be dusted or gutloaded every time they are fed out because commercial insects are high in phosphorus and poor in calcium.

Is it because its stressful for them? I did it this way cause they usually only ate a few crickets, which left uneatten crickets bothering them during the day.

Vitamins and calcium at the same time? So then just once a week? My crickets are already gut-loaded. The super/meal/waxworms however are straight from the package.

[jasonm96]

It can be. Just cut down the amount of crickets and also make sure they're warm enough for feeding. If there is excess crickets left over, remove them.

Yeah, from what I've read, a recent theory is that it is better to provide regular vitamins in small amounts than higher amounts at once and less frequently. It makes sense. Wild frogs would always be getting vitamins from food.


You should dust every time and only dust or gut load. If you dust and gut load you're doubling up calcium and vitamins, and depending on what products are used, this could lead to an overdose. However, I suppose if you dust one batch and gut load the next this wouldn't be too bad.

I prefer dusting and feed my insects mainly fruit, veg and small amounts of cricket maintance diets. This is adding some nutritional value, but not necessarily gutloading, which an alternative way to dusting of increasing the calcium and vitamins in insects

[Bryan]

So maybe I should dust the super/meal/wax worms since I don't gut load those.

And just feed them the crickets undusted as they are gut-loaded.

[jasonm96]

Depends, if the gut load is good enough to actually achieve the proper Ca:P ratio and vitamin load after 48 hours of feeding. You might be able to find a study on the internet with results. A problem is that the crickets don't deal with the amount of calcium that's in these diets and they will die after, so you'll need to keep insects that you're not feeding out in another tank and feed them fruit and vegetables as well. Also, there's no idea to tell what insects have actually ate it. Another limitation is that you're only feeding the insects the gut load. If you were to dust you can also feed the insects healthy foods that have natural non-toxic vitamins and then dust with calcium and multivitimins