Food for winter

[Linda3frogs]

Hi again, my guys eat off my fingers or blunt forceps. They seem to know when it's feeding time in the evening. I was thinking of freezing the flies in water in ice cube trays. thawing a cube of flies a day for an instant meal. if I'm too slow with getting a fly or worm ready then the frogs will have a go at catching a finger. Size is no matter, if it moves it's food!
someone asked what my favorite frogs were. you guys are so lucky with the variety you can get and keep. wow there's some awesome sorts out there! I'd love some different colours and sizes, anything really. However, in clean, green New Zealand we only have five (I think, someone correct me) varieties of frog. Greens and browns in colour, and from 2 -12cm (?) The golden bells and little tree frogs are fairly common and in the pet shop seasonally but the others are very rare and protected. I love NZ's environmental protection laws and what we do for our native species. sadly we're slowly losing so much. when I was a kid there were always frogs in the back yard and lizards in the wood pile. not any more!
have a nice day

[Leefrogs]

So sad to hear bout wild poulations. It's a concern of mine. Hawaii had destuction of natural animals but u can find darts and bunch that dont belong. But ilove your local green tree frog, whites in US lingo. Ice cubes sound like good one! Maybe u could set trap to. Like the cone inside box kind. Where they bugs enter and cant find entrance. Put some kind bait, maybe that get bugs u need that r shy? Best of luck

[Ebony]

Hi again, my guys eat off my fingers or blunt forceps. They seem to know when it's feeding time in the evening. I was thinking of freezing the flies in water in ice cube trays. thawing a cube of flies a day for an instant meal. if I'm too slow with getting a fly or worm ready then the frogs will have a go at catching a finger. Size is no matter, if it moves it's food!
someone asked what my favorite frogs were. you guys are so lucky with the variety you can get and keep. wow there's some awesome sorts out there! I'd love some different colours and sizes, anything really. However, in clean, green New Zealand we only have five (I think, someone correct me) varieties of frog. Greens and browns in colour, and from 2 -12cm (?) The golden bells and little tree frogs are fairly common and in the pet shop seasonally but the others are very rare and protected. I love NZ's environmental protection laws and what we do for our native species. sadly we're slowly losing so much. when I was a kid there were always frogs in the back yard and lizards in the wood pile. not any more!
have a nice day

I know how you feel Linda..The three species we can keep are The Green and Golden Bell (Litoria aurea), The Southern bell (Litoria raniformis) and the Whistling tree frog (Litoria ewingi).I keep all three and breed the Whistlers. The Green and Golden's do well up North..but not here. That's why we keep them in doors..too cold in Christchurch. We have many spots in Christchurch where you see the Southerns and the Whistlers.

As for food..Ive never feed my frog food that not alive. That's interesting that frogs obviously can be accustomed to hand feeding. I can hand feed live food but never tried anything else. It can be tricky in the winter to locate food. I breed Locusts which i also sell to keep my frog addiction going.

The other alternative is to put your frogs into hibernation. Its just a matter of moving there home into an unheated room. Make sure you lower the water and clean out first. I put mine in hibernation over winter. My Southern live outside in the froggery so they automatically go into hibernation..so do my Whistlers.