Help, badly broken leg on frog! (with pictures)

[Larry Wardog]

I would not recommend the filter because the frog isn't as strong and could get sucked into it. A sponge filter would be good. 6-7 inches deep would be all you need. Remember it's a paralyzed frog so we need to make accomodations for it.

I would create a small land area the frog can seamlessly float above the land on a shallow area and can swim deeper if it wants.

Yes clean water is essential and you could actually keep mosquito fish and raise them and offer them as a feeder for the frog. If you need more advice I would be happy to help. For cricket care I can send you this.


This is how I keep Banded Crickets. They can last for 6-7 months and maybe longer I stopped count doing it this way.

Get a large plastic bin and drill air holes on the too of the lid.

Buy Mazuri Better Bug Gutload as the food for all your feeders and give it fresh two times a week to the crickets. You can and I recommend add in with the gutload Tetrafauna Reptocal with D3. This will give D3 along with more nutrients to the cricket and to your toad.

Add repashy crested gecko diet and whatever repashy supplements to the gutload and calcium this makes the food smell better and attract the crickets. It adds more variety to their food. I use the color enhancer with this but it's not really anything necessary.

Get Flukers Cricket Gel for a water source. It's kind of like giving the crickets Jello and the cricket gel has calcium in it to also help boost the crickets nutrition up for your animals.

there's a lot more you can do with the diet but this is just the base and most important part that I'm explaining. Next you purchase a bulk amount of crickets from like Josh's Frogs or from Rainbow Mealworms. I'd say if you have a lot of animals somewhere between 200 to 1k could last you a very long time.

The next step is very important you want to allow the crickets to have to or even three days if you're not in a rush to eat the food and drink the gel that you have provided. Doing this allows you to make sure the crickets have eaten and they are nutritious for your animals. The gutload actually says this on the instructions.

if you want to breed the crickets they are very easy to breed in captivity and you could continue to have a living colony if you want. I am just covering the basics of keeping crickets for three to four months.

I just tried roaches and they are the alternative to crickets. I am not generally sold on roaches I like using crickets more for the sound and for the hunt. I have large enclosures and I enjoy allowing my animals to hunt. There is nothing wrong with roaches but I have found great success with banded crickets. I have not had a cricket die in the last 4 months of keeping them and I got them when they were small. there have not been any that have bread in my bin either. I have replenished only once or even maybe twice but I have not had one Cricket died. This used to give me headaches and is why I switched the species of cricket I use and why I buy in bulk now. If you want to know more about how to feed the crickets to your animals and how to keep them alive I would gladly explain to you more in detail if you want. The nice thing about this species of cricket is that they are not aggressive and handling them by hand I have never been bitten by them unlike the other crickets you would receive in the pet store. They have never attacked my frogs or toads and I feel very comfortable with using them and calling them my staple feeder. I obviously use multiple feeders but they are the most important feeder that I keep and I make sure that I have good sanitary conditions for them as well as provide buffet style meals and I also make sure to keep up with them two to three times a week. Imagine A farm with many cows living but they are happy well-fed able to reproduce and they are nutritious for everybody to eat. This is the philosophy that I approached with having right now my crickets and also my mealworm colony. I hope this helps you.

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[Torqued Teeth]

This is some really good advice! I'll keep it in mind for later when I have more space (I plan on moving some time within the next year or two. It really depends on a number of factors outside my control). I need to upgrade my turtle's setup first, so I'm hoping the turtle's 40 gallon tank can tide Kuma over until the move.

And I wouldn't say Kuma is paralyzed. The knee and muscles required to extend her left hind leg are competently destroyed, but she can still pull the leg closer to her body. It greatly impacts her swimming ability, but I'm not sure to what extent yet since her water area is so small. She can still jump around when she wants to, as demonstrated last time I cleaned her tank (I had to take out her flower pot hiding place because it was starting to mold, so I had to move her to the angry bucket while I worked. She hasn't forgiven me yet). Kuma was flying around the aquarium, but I don't think her knee twisted once!

I think it's time to remove the bedding and make it a mostly aquatic environment. I am really happy I saved all my old equipment from when I was a kid, or this would be expensive. Since she's only two inches long (not counting her good leg), I'm thinking of making the water 2 inches deep with gravel substrate and a filter (wrapped in window screening to keep her leg from getting sucked in). And some rocks to perch on, hiding places, and a land area.

[Torqued Teeth]

Kumatora in the angry bucket (week 2)

[KP]

Here's the type of filter I use. Your frog won't get sucked into it. Look over the website and you'll get all the info you need about them to make an informed decision about them. https://www.aqueon.com/products/filt...-power-filters

[Torqued Teeth]

I thought I'd give an update on Kumatora. First, I learned he's a male and he has a wonderful singing voice. He will perform for me every night as I try to go to sleep. I don't mind though. It's kind of funny

and second, he's doing very well. He's been a bit finicky with eating, but lately his appetite has been up. I'm hoping he'll put on a little weight now that we've worked out a feeding system (I basically throw crickets at him and he gobbles them up. No luck with other bugs yet). Kuma's also doubled in size! He seems to have no significant mobility problems, and his leg doesn't twist when he's crawling around on land. Little man has come a long way!

[Larry Wardog]

I thought I'd give an update on Kumatora. First, I learned he's a male and he has a wonderful singing voice. He will perform for me every night as I try to go to sleep. I don't mind though. It's kind of funny

and second, he's doing very well. He's been a bit finicky with eating, but lately his appetite has been up. I'm hoping he'll put on a little weight now that we've worked out a feeding system (I basically throw crickets at him and he gobbles them up. No luck with other bugs yet). Kuma's also doubled in size! He seems to have no significant mobility problems, and his leg doesn't twist when he's crawling around on land. Little man has come a long way!

Really good to hear! Have you food dish trained him? My American toads will go to a dish I supply and eat things that would normally burrow in the soil. I put waxworms, butterworms, mealworms, and hornworms in the dish. You could try this and after he learns the foods there whenever he sees you he will go to the dish. I recommend butterworms and waxworms to be added as a small additional part of the diet with crickets to fatten him up. Say around 3-5 for a large frog like him. How many times a week for feeding?

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