Fire belly Toads keepers.

**EvolutionZ** · 17th Nov 2012, 21:50

Hey! any Fire belly Toad keepers here? can they be fed with frozen blood worm? or newly molted "white" mealworms? and where to get those baby crickets?

**eddy planer** · 18th Nov 2012, 17:11

Hi EvolutionZ,

Congratulations of getting yourself Fire Belly Toads!!! You must be so proud of them. Don't worry, you will surely get help or advice from us all. You can try getting small thin mealworms or get baby crickets from PolyArt, Clementi. Hope this will help you, bro

Care to upload picture of your Fire Belly toads and its habitant, please? To be honest with you, I start camping here!!!

**delhezi** · 18th Nov 2012, 23:57

Baby crickets will have to be your staple, some good dusting vitamin powders, 22-25 celsius, dechlorinated water, and 10 gallons to about 4.

Some notes...they've usually only got black crickets now, and those should probably be avoided with small frogs like firebellies.

Try tubifex, they'd have this in occasion, but somehow, you'd have to find the clean ones.

Frogs typically do not take non-living prey.

**yampeck** · 7th Jan 2013, 16:10

Hi,

The crickets sold at LFS tend to be rather big at times. And they also die off after a few days and smells...

Any alternatives other than crickets?

**Shaihulud** · 8th Jan 2013, 09:44

Small frogs used as feeders.

**cdckjn** · 9th Jan 2013, 10:43

mealworms are best for me, easy, can keep the mealworms for a longer time.

**yampeck** · 10th Jan 2013, 18:36

Any advice on how to keep the mealworms for longer time? I just bought a pack and they smells... well, my tank is in the office, so got to consider colleagues around me. :P

**delhezi** · 15th Jan 2013, 18:15

Feeder frogs are not the best of ideas, unless you're able to gauge which are parasite or otherwise disease free; which unless you're a vet, probably can't.

Feeding a frog a frog makes diseases somewhat simple to spread, don't you think?

**vivaboy76** · 26th Aug 2014, 17:15

Hi,

u can feed fire belly toads crickets too. they will wallop even medium size cricket.

But mealworms best.

Originally Posted by delhezi

Feeder frogs are not the best of ideas, unless you're able to gauge which are parasite or otherwise disease free; which unless you're a vet, probably can't.

Feeding a frog a frog makes diseases somewhat simple to spread, don't you think?

**Jimboa** · 30th Aug 2014, 14:24

Mealworms are actually more like junk food for small frogs. Low in nutrient and risk impaction due their hard exoskeleton. They may also bite the frogs from inside, since frogs swallow their food whole.
Best is still crickets or earthworms.

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