I give up!!!

[Hoppity100]

The roaches you have are different from cockroaches? What color and size are they? The roaches I saw here once were the toughest thing I ever had to kill, the shell was as hard as a walnut almost. I even wonder still how frogs can digest a cricket, but somehow they do. But if you have different roaches, soft shell, saving you money, all the power to you. I would like to have my own earthworms going but was told to not use them from my yard. I have not looked for a store that sells them, but I have dirt and a large container when I am ready to breed some. Glad you explained your roaches, our stores don't sell any, but they have crickets and worms.

[DVirginiana]

The roaches you have are different from cockroaches? What color and size are they? The roaches I saw here once were the toughest thing I ever had to kill, the shell was as hard as a walnut almost. I even wonder still how frogs can digest a cricket, but somehow they do. But if you have different roaches, soft shell, saving you money, all the power to you. I would like to have my own earthworms going but was told to not use them from my yard. I have not looked for a store that sells them, but I have dirt and a large container when I am ready to breed some. Glad you explained your roaches, our stores don't sell any, but they have crickets and worms.

You're thinking about German cockroaches. The kind you'd feed to frogs are dubia roaches. They're a tropical species, and you usually have to order them off the internet. I used to have a colony, but IMO with just one animal that eats them, they were more trouble than they were worth.

WalMart sells nightcrawlers for about two dollars a container. Just make sure you get the kind that haven't been dyed fluorescent green. It's not just the worms from the yard you shouldn't use though, but the dirt too. You have no way of knowing what sorts of pesticides and toxins wash in with rainwater, even if you don't actually spray them on your yard. If the worms eat that and then your frog eats the worms, it can still cause problems.

[Hoppity100]

I wondered about these roaches, and thanks for letting me know Walmart sells earthworms, I'll get some this weekend. The crickets here are 10/$1 and I think that is way too much. My frogs love chasing them though. So, I'm going to check out other stores for crickets. Am real glad if I can get earthworms at Walmart, the frogs will no doubt like them, too.