Food Other Than Mice?

[DVirginiana]

Haha, mine acts frightened of them too! I've seen so many youtube videos of people feeding them to their pacman frogs I figured mine was just strange.


I think someone asked what brand of walmart worms were okay to use... the DMF brand of walmart worms are good.

[pac]

My pacs love earthworms and superworms I have 2 subadult toads. 1 toadlet that eat everthing besides mice but most breeders feed there adults mice

[MeTree]

Yeah, it is the DMF brand that Walmart sells. Those are fine.

Malcolm used to completely fear those things until I started pulling them to 2" pieces and coating them with calcium. Malcolm still doesn't love them, but he will eat them if I go a couple days without feeding him.

btw, DVirginiana, you said that you can breed them? I thought they'd melt if the temps got high. I always figured I'd have to live in Canada or someplace like that before the temps would be fine. I left a Night Crawler in a plastic feeding tank once (afew months ago), and I haven't used it every since. It stinks LOL!

If the Night Crawlers don't work there is another type of worm that can actually be used as a staple. They are called "Phoenix Worms". You can order them from a site called "Josh's Frogs". Get the "large" Phoenix worms or your Pacman Frog will not see it well (I got the mediums and they are abit small). These guys ship as dry goods so you only have to pay the $7 priority mail. It also will ship with anything else you order (same location), so you can add whatever you want to your cart along with the worms and not pay extra.

I have personally ordered from Josh's Frogs twice with great results. Orders came in on time and undamaged. My Phoenix worms came in looking great and alive. Great way to vary your Pacman Frog's diet!

[BG]

I have three pacman and raise them good and big on earthworms and dubia roaches now they still love them they never saw a mouse and they are doing great sprinkled with cal and d3 and vita. Mice are bad idea.

[jelkins]

Something to consider are these frogs natural diets in the wild, which consists of 70% vertebrates (other frogs). Most of the information you find regarding the feeding of these frogs consists of information on insects as a primary food source. This is fine, but you may have better luck regarding their overall health with a diet that consists of insects/woms and, if possible, a reliable source of feeder frogs.

My ornate also seemed to be very partial to crayfish, which are an excellent source of calcium.

[Malachi]

I have used frozen frogs from an Asian market, they go nuts for the them. Maybe because it is their natural prey item. I have documented emails from various experts in chitrid for a method to make sure they are safe.
If you have a local Asian market that is.

[MeTree]

Frozen frogs? Blech. They may be fine, or maybe even the best, but I figure Pacman Frogs live up to 30 years (sometimes more) in captivity on an insect diet, and only live 1-4 years in the wild on a 75% frog diet. I understand that parasites has a big role in that, but still...

Doesn't mean they are bad, though. Just my thought.

[Malachi]

Well as gross as it is you kind of cook them, to kill the diseases and what not. Also a lot of parasites cant survive being frozen even. I dont feed them frogs often, as I dont really like having to cook dead frogs. I do it to vary their diet.
I consulted a bunch of herpetologists and they all agreed that the biggest threat is chitrid and the cooking routine they gave me would destroy it.

My main food source is nightcrawlers. Just trying to throw an option of a larger prey item out there.

There are other frozen food sources too like quail and chicks which are suppose to be better then mice.

I have started a dubia colony recently with 10, 2 months later i have 40-50 with some adult males being feed already. Pretty easy to breed.