Pro-Tip: Seriously just get crickets

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

But they are picky about worms.

Generally frogs (Including Fire-bellies) aren't picky about worms unless fed Red-wiggler worms prior to the better species. For earthworm feeders, I suggest feeding either Canadian nightcrawlers or European nightcrawlers, neither of which produce anything to make the frogs dislike them, unlike red-wigglers. You can probably find them easy in fishing stores and the like, just be sure to get non dyed varieties

[daybr4ke]

Mine aren't picky with worms, really, they just have trouble eating them. Often their tongues don't stick well to them, and it takes my African Bullfrog a lot of tries to bite one off the ground(he won't eat anything but mice from tongs.) and he sometimes gives up. The Woodhouse's toads on the other hand won't give up no matter how many times they fail. They once harrassed a nightcrawler for almost an hour until it got into the substrate. All my frogs love worms, if they can eat them lol
Edit: after re-reading what I posted above, this feels a little redundant.

[monster]

I think the problem with FBT's and worms is by the time you cut the worm into a small enough piece for them to eat the worm has no movement. Without any movement at all I think a lot of them don't recognize it as food. At least with a cricket even if it stops moving because it notices the danger the FBT has seen it move at some point so he will watch for more movement, were as small pieces of worm don't even move when you first drop it in. It's like dropping a rock in there. And a fire belly toad wouldn't have trouble picking the worm up with his tongue because they cant extend there tongue and don't use it to catch there food. They pretty jump towards the prey with an open mouth and hope when they get there the prey is still in the same spot and they just catch it in there mouth. This is why small rocks aren't good for them in there tanks, if the cricket moves they end up landing on the pebble with there mouth open and end up picking it up.

[alane]

Jeez. I find that I can even pick out a (freshly) dead cricket from my cricket pen, wave it around with the feeding tongs. it's snapped right up. frogs are not hesitant at all to eat a dead cricket. they just love them.

i've waved wriggling worms in front of them. they all come up and look. but then they don't strike. it's like they are all daring each other to go first.

once one goes first, they all tend to go. motion makes them quite excited.

but yeah. i can get rid of my dead crickets quick.


i find that the few times i've handled them, you just turn them upside down. they stop squirming and relax. i've had one relax totally, it did not bunch up like the typical unken reflex but instead went entirely limp, letting it's four legs just droop down. floppy frog. it's the unken reflex but it looks more like froggy hypnosis when they go upside down.

cool little critters.

i think they are smart enough to know what a cricket is and to _LIKE_ them. they seem to not be dumb frogs. (not like my pacman was)