Nutritional Supplementation for Toads?

[Jace]

What counts as quality food? The little blocks that come in the Bug Tub with them? I've heard fish flakes are good, so I try and toss some of those in with my crickets too.

[JeffX]

I dust my crickets and worms, but not everytime I feed them. I don't see any harm in dusting them everytime you feed.

[into]

What counts as quality food?

probably a variety of vegetables. I feed mine celery, tropical fish flakes, potatoes and cricket cubes. + twice a week dusting with calcium and vitamin supplements.

[John]

A decent cricket diet with added calcium, and a water source. Right now I use Ghann's Cricket Farm :: Hi-Calcium Cricket Diet together with those green jelly cubes that are supposed to be gutload as well as a water source. I have had very good results growing baby toads this way (you wouldn't believe how good the results are).

[coltiger]

I feed my toads a good mixture...hornworms, silkworms, mealworms, earthworms, crickets and the occasional pinky(maybe once a month) I always dust the crickets with a calcium/vitamin powder. I also just started with butterworms, my Amercian toads love those.

[John]

Well a varied diet is the ideal approach but if you go through a lot of feeders it's nice to have a cheap staple you can rely on, and that's why a lot of us feed frogs with crickets but gutload them to maximise their nutritional impact.