i'm not sure if they will take it...bu you can try..
i'm not sure if they will take it...bu you can try..
Hi Alex, frogs do not take in any dead insects. They have to be fed with "live" insects. If they're dead, they won't even go near it. It's their instinct.
Regards,
Phillip.
darn... where to find live insect? catch them? LOL... hmmm any suggestions on how to get live food? put a sugar trail? wonder where got sell live insects live ants, termites....Originally Posted by Wild Ginger
you shouldn't feed them ants... some ants have formic acid in them... others some distasteful substances.. and they can bite your frogs... please dont feed them ants..
Originally Posted by ranmasatome
ok will take note
actually just correcting myself... ants can bite..but some sting as well...thats where the formic acid comes in...and thats why it swells and is painful after..
Originally Posted by ranmasatome
but i think home ants ok right? if not u got solution on what to feed them?
err...refer to your cricket post..... personally...i wont even consider ants a food..lol..except in some special cases...
Those ants which are found in common households are perfectly fine to be fed to small frogs and they're mainly the workers. Only the "guards" have these acid on which they protect themselves with. Of course referring to only the common household ants. Other species like the wood ants, etc is not reccommended at all.Originally Posted by ranmasatome
Ants will not fully staple the diets they need for the frogs but an alternate solution would be woodlice. These creatures can be cultivated from a few to a multicolony from which you can harvest them. They're a good source of calcium and protein when taken in large numbers and definitely a healthy staple to the diet.
Regards,
Phillip.
where can woodlice be gotten from?Originally Posted by Wild Ginger
Yes yes..i just thought afterwards say already he go outside and catch ants then frog get some bites or whatever then i die..so dont reccomend loh..lol.. anyway..you refering to those black ants that run very fast at home ones?? how safe are they?? cos the last time i ate a whole bunch of them and they tasted funny...almost tangy..like they had some residual acid in them..Originally Posted by Wild Ginger
Anyway...if you dont know what are woodlice jja, they are those things that looks like armoured roaches.. you know when you go out on the beach and its low tide...and you see these small things running around on the rocks quite fast?? well...those are one species of woodlice..there are a few more species... you can try checking under leaf litter..or under old logs... just be careful cos not only woodlice live in these areas... i dont know if the ones found near the sea can be used...
philip..care to comment on that??
The ones on the beach are not wood lice. Wood lice are found around dead slightly damp wood, out of reach of light. You need to go around to find these dead wood.
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Crickets can also be used as a food source for frogs and other herptiles. All you need to do is to either gut-load the crickets before feeding to the animals or, you dust them crickets with calcium powder from the pharmacy.
If the frogs are of a slightly larger species like the Green Field Frog, you can feed them with mealworms. They'll be happy to devour the worms. Trust me, I saw this with my own eyes.
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Woodlice is a common name...quite a few species fall under this...the ones found at the sea which i think is Ligia oceanica does fall under this common name... a few other common ones include... Oniscus asellus( common shiny wood louse), Porcellio scaber (common rough woodlouse) Armadillium vulgare (the common pillbug) and Philoscia muscorum. As you can see...not much can be said for a common name as it includes families from all over the place..Originally Posted by BFG
I think the asellus were cultured as fish food in the US..
You can find them in areas with rotting plant matter. Try under dead trees, leaf litter.. even plants tied on driftwood that you get from the plant farm will almost always have some woodlice on it.
I brought home a medium piece of java fern on driftwood from a farm and when I gave it a good rinse under a jet of water, out came 3 woodlice of differing sizes. God knows what species those were but they look like cousins of the cockroaches.
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lol...SO CUTE!!!!!Originally Posted by stormhawk
Cute for awhile before I decided to squash 'em!
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i'm also guilty..lolOriginally Posted by stormhawk
Alex, as your froglet is still considerably small and time is precious, you could try to feed them with tubifex worms. Have them thorughly rinsed and cleaned. After which dust a minute amount of calcium supplement once in every 4 days onto the tubifex worms. Place it in a shallow dish along with the froglets in it. It'll take a while for them to adjust to the food but it does work and with patience, they'll gobble them up pretty soon.
Regards,
Phillip.
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