Favorite feed

[Kevin1]

My favorite to use are dubia roaches.
They also come in a variety of sizes.
All of my pets love them.
They are nutritious.
Easy to breed/keep.
Don't smell.
pretty quiet.
Easy to handle.
All in all a pretty good staple.

[SirIvy]

I primarily use canned crickets for gray tree frogs, spring peeper, and american toad. (It took awhile to trick the toad into thinking they were alive.) I also feed them some canned mealworms, canned caterpillars, and any live moths I am able to catch. I have live springtails and sowbugs in the tanks as well.

Canned crickets make up the majority of the diet though.

[Kurt]

Wow, I didn't think anybody actually bought those.

[SirIvy]

Canned food? I usually caught and raised my own food.

This summer I raised all of the above mentioned animals from tadpoles. (I somehow got a peeper tadpole while scooping my bucket back in the flooded woods behind my house collecting water. I heard a bunch of them calling but never say any.)

I started out with live food and then switched to canned once they all became used to hand feeding. It's real easy to get a variety of food this way and its easier to dust the food with calcium.

For the toad I just put him in a plastic container and drop food in front of him. He'll look at it for a second then snatch it up.

[coltiger]

I chose other

I usually feed hornworms, silkworms and waxworms. I sometimes get butterworms. I am not into crickets as much.

[SludgeMunkey]

Lobster Roaches: Nauphoeta cinerea

Advantages:

Quiet.
Odorless.
Fat Breeders.
Have trouble surviving if the escape in temperate climates.
Easy to feed.
High Nutritional value.
Do well on Dry Cat food/Dog food and once a week salad greens.
Cricket crystals provide water easily.
Sizes comparable to crickets.

Disadvantages:

Takes a few months to get good producing cultures going, but still faster than crickets.

They can climb anything, so a barrier substance like Vaseline or an off the shelf product is necessary.

If you live in a subtropical climate, do not use these.

[Crystal6]

Anyone have any nutritional information on loctus/grasshoppers? I noticed they were conspicuously missing from this chart: Caudata Culture Articles - Nutritional Values

Which was kind of frustrating because I have a lot of grasshoppers around my house and was wondering what a good companion to the crickets I already have would be. (I'm not sure how to breed earthworms/night crawlers and have had no success feeding them to my frogs in previous attempts, mainly because they're too big, they drown, and they apparently don't taste very good when chopped up)