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 FEEDING AMERICAN BULLFROG?! baby-adult

Hello i got right now 2 american bullfrog tadpoles but 1 is soon to be frog so should i still feed him like fish flakes and shrimp pellets after he gets all 4 legs for like a week? or should i start to feed him crickets and when he’s small HOW MANY TIMES A WEEK DO I FEED HIM AND WHAT SIZE OF CRICKETS SMALL OR LARGE AND HOW MANY?--->(this qwestion is also for an adult american bullfrog) should i feed an adult crickets or something else like goldfish or something becuse I DON’T THINK MY MOM WILL ALLOY ME TO FEED MY BULLFROG MICE OR RATS any tips?!

and how should i set me tank up? half land half water with the land be rocks or have full eco earth and a big deep dish for him to sit in?
10/03/08  12:44am

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 FEEDING AMERICAN BULLFROG?! baby-adult

While it’s a froglet (has all four legs and still has the tail), they normally don’t eat anything, and once the tail gets absorbed, that’s when it’ll start eating the live food like crickets. When they’re young they’ll take small crickets, usually about 5 per day, but it depends on the size of the frog as it’s developing. Just try out different amounts and see what the frog seems to do best with. Also dust the crickets with a calcium supplement about 2-3 times a week when the frog’s still young. When they mature they get fed once every two days-ish, larger crickets and the dusting is about once per week.

The rule of thumb for food items like crickets is no larger than the space between the frogs eyes, so obviously as the frog gets bigger, so can the food. They really don’t need mice or anything, fish like guppies and minnows are good treats, not goldfish though, they’re pretty unhealthy.
10/03/08  08:46pm


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