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    What to feed small frogs?

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    Hi, adopted 2 small common froggies. They finished up all the fruit flies that was in the simple vivarium housing my hermits. What can I use to feed them? They are both very small (about the size of the last segment of the last finger, one even smaller) and the normal sized meal worms and crickets found at LFS would be too big leh...

    Help... Else they will starve...

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    Hi!

    I saw small frogs (the ones I used to feed my fish) snapping up tubifex worms and bloodworms pretty enthusiastically. Might be worth a shot.
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    Thank you you...

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    I guess if you're desperate you can feed them ants... just stick something sweet and moist on a piece of plastic and leave it in the open for awhile. When you've got a group of ants crowding around it, quickly grab the "trap" and dump in in the tank. Frogs are attracted to movement of any kind(they won't eat something that isn't moving) so they SHOULD be all over the ants in a few seconds.

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    Eh... ants are pretty nasty tasting and could turn on the frogs instead. Might not be a good idea. I'll suggest putting a small piece of fruit like banana in the tank. It'll attract fruit flies... replace the fruit every few days to prevent fouling the tank and maggots.
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    Does that work if you're living on the 12th floor of a HDB?

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    Heh... you got me there.
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    I feed my red bellied newts on freeze dried tubifex and live black worms.

    I soak the fd tubifex and stick it on the end of a chopstick and put it right in front of the newts...do the same with the black worms, but I don't have to soak them...lol...I also add some liquid vitamins to the water that the worms are in...in my fridge..(yummy !)..

    This might work for your little frogs, just keep the portions small enough that they can swallow it.

    Good luck !

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    Quote Originally Posted by XnSdVd
    Does that work if you're living on the 12th floor of a HDB?
    Trust me... The fruit flies will arrive... Somehow I am suspecting that our veges and fruits are coated with their eggs somehow... I live on the 14th floor... My vivarium still have fruit flies! I never even open my windows! But the frogs love them...
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