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Does anyone have any information on Bull Frogs, especially their food requirements. Will they eat small feeder fish or does it have to be just crickets etc.?

Thanks for any help youi can offer.

i have had bull frogs as pets when i was a kid and they need land as well as water to survive. I have fed mine earth worms that i dangeled in from of their faces and they eat them. I am not sure if they will eat feeder fish or not. But i do not recomend them for an aquarium

I'll assume you have some kind of land thing, like was already mentioned I've kept many kinds of frogs, and a bullfrog briefly (I saved the poor thing from our pool!), and they all seemed to relish crickets. Just make sure to gutload the crickets first!

a bull frog will eat anything that fits in its mouth. feeder fish, earthworms, salamanders, you name it. they do require both water and a soil habitat. they do get rather large, so their food consumption is rather large (as is their waste output).

good luck.

[font color="#800080"]I have a Western Ground Toad, and I feed him Crickets- fed with Flukers GutLoad Cricket feed, and watered with any Gel type Watering Gel for crickets. No open water for crickets they will drown themselves.
First: You will have to be able to keep crickets as well. A rubbermaid tote of any kind will do, preferably tall enough that the crickets cant jump out. I use one that is 25 Gallons, is 22 inches tall and 12 inches x 12 inches wide. Place sand, gravel, or wood chip kitty litter in the bottom. Provide a Gel based source of water (I use tiny tupperware round containers that hold 1/5th of a cup). Bury them to their tops in the ground. Provide a container of gutload food (either cricket food, chicken feed, or ground up high quality cat food), supplement with a peice of fruit (oranges, pears, anything sweet) once a week.
Keep warm and dry, inside is best. Cut a hole on the tote bins top at least 8x8 inches square and hot glue screening or mesh of some kind in the place of the plastic, otherwise it will get damp and humid inside the container and kill the crickets. I have found crickets at adult size only live a week or two at most (dunno why), so only purchase around 50-100 of them at one time. Any less than 50 is not worthwhile.
Second: Provide at least a 10g or larger enclosure for your frog. I use a sand bottom for my toad, with a plastic "cave" for him I purchased as a reptile home at my LFS, and I use a large tupperware container at one end for a pond. This makes it easy to remove and clean. The sand Holds together as well so You can just pop out the container and rinse and refill.
If you use an easily removeable substrate, such as sand, to clean the tank is easy. Just use a shovel or spoon and scrape off the topmost layer once a week. Fully dump and replace the water in the pond once a week as well,(top up every few days with fresh cool water) unless you have a larger tank and provide a filter. Clean the filter once a week anyway. Frogs and Toads poop a lot, and shed their skin, so both water and ground becomes contaminated. Provide only the hardiest, toughest, non poisonous plants. My toad killed some tough herb plants within a week. Rinse down the inside of the tank once a month with a soft cloth and some warm water.
Provide a mesh or screen cover (i made my own for about 3 bucks out of wood and wire screening). This will keep your frog in and the crickets in as well).
You can provide various foods for your frog. Crickets are staple, and easily kept and gutloaded. Mealworms may work as well, gutload those as well. Do not use KING MEALWORMS!!! These are the BIG BLACK mealworms that look sorta like centipedes. They can EAT their way out of your toad/frog after being eaten and kill your pet.
I also feed my toad vitamin and garlic soaked Tubifex cubes offered on the end of a pair of tweezers.
Earthworms are good as well, soak them in a saucer of milk so they will expell the dirt inside. Or: Raise them yourself to prevent parasites.
I hope this helps you a bit! Amphibians are gentle, rewarding pets. Good Luck!
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Sand substrate? I havent heard of that before, but it sounds convenient, it's part of why I love my gecko so much...easy cleanup! But could've sand been used for tree frogs? I gave my two white's treefrogs to a pet store because they were sooo messy and I couldn't keep up with them...

[font color="#800080"]Oh, and I forgot to mention! Feed your Frog once every 2-3 days, if he is a baby only 2-3 medium size crickets, as he grows to a larger size, increase the size of the crickets and feed 7-10 crickets every 2-3 days.
I feed my toad 10 crickets every 3rd day, or 6 cubes of tubifex worms soaked in garlic extract and vitamins.
If your frog doesnt eat all the food you provide, cut down a little next time, or space a feedings one more day apart. Also, my toad lets me know hes hungry, he climbs the sides of the tank, only time he ever does. Rest of the time hes peaceful and happy.
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Im sure sand would be fine for tree frogs as well.
I just make sure to keep some of the sand bottom slightly damp so it doesnt dry my toad out too much.
Likewise you could also do grass and just "pooper scoop".


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Provide at least a 10g or larger enclosure for your frog

At least....an American bullfrog will fill a ten gallon when mature (we are talking 2lb frog here).

sand's not good for tree frogs. The main thing being it does not hold water. The other thing being it's quite abrasive. But the not holding water is the main concern for tree frogs. If you used sand you'd have to mist about every hour...

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