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I was just woundering if m the pacman frog could diest plants like lettuce and other similar things or would it be hazardous to their health becuase I was able to get my frog to chomp down on some cellery but he let go because it was the whole piece.

no...all frogs are carnivorous, i strongly doubt that they have the necessary microfauna in their gut to digest any plant material, and i know their gut is not nearly long enough to do so.

>>no...all frogs are carnivorous???

A Brazilian treefrog eats fruits. Of the frogs that were sampled 29 percent had only fruits in their stomachs; 53 percent had only arthropods; 13 percent had both fruits and arthropods. The frogs are apparently capable of digesting four species of berries and play a role in those species seed dispersal. Seeds in the recta were always without pulp, but pulp was present all through the small intestine, indicating digestion occurs. And apparently this is not the usual case of secondary ingestion, two individuals were maintained in captivity for four months on a diet exclusively of the fruits and subsisted on it.

Helio, R. da Silva, Monica C. de Brittopereira, and Ulisses Caramaschi. 1989. Frugivory and seed dispersal by Hyla truncata, a neotropical tree frog. Copeia. 3:781-783.

But seriously, don't feed your frog plants! Captive frogs will snap at anything that moves in front of their faces.
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