Spinning FBT to the right

[Leefrogs]

I know nothing bout fbt, but distilled is a no no. It strips the minerals out of the frogs, distilled is used as a medical treatment, or fir misting if u have water that leaves spots

[famedfrogs]

Thank you so much for this information. I happen to still have my nestle bottles and will start first thing tomorrow to change it out. I keep Mr. Happy , the Christmas one, at work and I have the one I purchased here at home. Any and All information is very helpful. This site seems like the only site that I can get real help from and I thought that the vet tech at the zoo would have been helpful. Again Thank you. This is really great and helpful.

Just another FYI on what I feed. I feed the crickets potatoes, carrots and fruits. I hope this is ok. I also put water in there carrier so they don't dehydrate.

Thank you again,
Dawn

[Leefrogs]

yep, fresh stuff is great!! They like fish food for protien, and u can sprinkle calcium and vitamins on your veggies for xtra nutients. If they're not eating eachother your doing fine. I also make my own food, blend dry catfood, oatmeal, and powdered milk( just for calcium) go 50/50 and 1/4 on milk(not nessisary if u give calcium dust on your veg)

U might wana google if sudden water changes have effect on them, as I don't know. But distilled is pure h2O, no elements at all, and spinning is a sign of nurological damage, hopefully they pull out of it.

[Leefrogs]

P.a. Always treat you water, bottled or not. They have dip tests at Walmart for 10$ , and I've tested "spring water" that had nitrate. Your tap water probably has less nitate than some bottled spring water. Treating the water is nessisary, dispite it's source

Side note--- nitrates are not reduced by water treatment!!!

[famedfrogs]

Gotcha. Ok. I'll treat the water just to make sure and I so hope that they are not damaged. I'd love them anyway and will keep taking care of them no matter what. On the crickets, the food I've been using is potatoes, carrots, watermelon and peaches, foods only. Then I gave a cap of water in their cage plus the white powder reptile supplement they gave me at the pet store which is a calcium mixture. You both have been very helpful and I really do appreciate it. I think I may try to do a video tomorrow at work and try to post it when I get home so you can see. At this time I really need to get to sleep for work but you both have been great and I hope to show you and maybe you can get a better feel for what's going on. Thank you so much and I will be on tomorrow.

Have a great night and THANK YOU.

[Han]

As a human being i expect you to gutload yourself every day, don't you?
What do you think will be the foodvalue of your (daily) excrements?
So if you can't do without crickets for food, you'ld better dust them with
an appropiate supplement. I, with all respect would skip the crickets and change the main menu into earthworms: no more "swimming in circles", no more "cloudy eyes",
no more "red legs", no more..................
What about the environment they live in. Size? Temperature? (get rid of the heather!).
Lighting? Size of waterpart? Ventilation? Soil? Hidingspots? Etc. etc.
No use for bottled water: just tapwater and leave it in a bucket for
some 3 days before using it, cheap and easy and good enough.

regards, Han

[clownonfire]

As a human being i expect you to gutload yourself every day, don't you?
What do you think will be the foodvalue of your (daily) excrements?
So if you can't do without crickets for food, you'ld better dust them with
an appropiate supplement. I, with all respect would skip the crickets and change the main menu into earthworms: no more "swimming in circles", no more "cloudy eyes",
no more "red legs", no more..................
What about the environment they live in. Size? Temperature? (get rid of the heather!).
Lighting? Size of waterpart? Ventilation? Soil? Hidingspots? Etc. etc.
No use for bottled water: just tapwater and leave it in a bucket for
some 3 days before using it, cheap and easy and good enough.

regards, Han

Knowing Han a bit more now, I know he knows a great deal on FBT. Mine are very happy with crickets, and I do know others who use earthworms and it works great too.

One point that I really agree with Han is using tap water. It's much easier, and less expensive. And like he said, let it out for at least 24 hours for dechlorination, more if you can. You'll save money, and it will be perfectly suitable for your frogs.

[Kisa]

Ginger's definitely right about the water, hopefully if you change it they'll be ok.

The cricket food looks fine as well, but I'm not sure they need another water source as long as the fruits and veggies you give them are fresh and moist. Just a quick tidbit I read online a little while ago: Tomatoes and bananas are supposed to be bad so I'd avoid those, but other fruits and veggies are ok. Don't ask me particulars I read it a while ago and don't have a definitive reason, but if anyone does it'd be great to know.

Most of the time I use celery as a main staple veggie for my crickets, along with any other fruits or veggies I happen to have lying around. I also supplement with Fluker's Cricket Quencher just to be sure they're getting the right calcium, but I don't think this is necessary as long as your constantly replacing their food source with fresh veggies and fruits.