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Hi all...I'm a snake guy but have little experience with frogs. I have found a cute little spring peerper in my office here at school (a coaches office adjacent to our outside fields). Anyway, I brought the critter up to my classroom and have it in a small terrarium with a little puddle, branches and leaves. What can I feed this neat little guy? What would he eat in the wild? Is basic amphib. husbandy satisfactory for keeping him alive? Thanks!

Peepers don't do very well in captivity really. But you can feed it pinhead crickets, aphids, termites, woodlice... basically any small soft-bodied buggie.

Personally, I'd release it. But you can give it a shot and see how it does in captivity.
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Heather

If you really want a frog to keep I suggest just letting that one go and getting your self a green treefrog or whites's treefrog, Spring Peepers are very hard to keep little frogs even though their care isn't much different from normal treerogs. But if you are gonna keep it, it will eat pinhead crickets and fruit flies.
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http://joshmilliken.tripod.com/

Let this one go. I have yet to hear anybody report on these forums about successfully keeping these long term in captivity. There are certainly way better beginner frogs.
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...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)

>>Let this one go. I have yet to hear anybody report on these forums about successfully keeping these long term in captivity. There are certainly way better beginner frogs.
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>>...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
>> Aldo Leopold (1938)

I have kept peepers successfully in the past. I fed them ants with no problem. They lived for a few years before they died.
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I have:
1.1 Kankakee Bulls
1.0 veild chameleon
1.1 corns
0.1 az king
1.2. tiger sals
0.1.11 fox snakes
0.1.10 thamnophis radix
0.1 3-toe box turtle
0.0.1 gray tree frogs
1.1 Crotaphytus collaris
1.1 Crotaphytus binctores

I would not exactly call feeding them exclusively ants and having them live a "few" years to be successful.
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...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)

It was a different guy posting fur.

You started out asking for advice on spring peeper husbandry, which you got ... let it go! Then you said that you've kept peepers before, feeding them ants until they died. Odd that you didn't say you kept peepers before, until everybody said to let it go. Anyway, holding a frog hostage, feeding it ants until it dies, is a little different than keeping a frog. Do your research before defending your "position". Let the frog go, coach.

echo.. echo.. echo.. let it go and try for something a little easier to care for.