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feeding frogs cat food

Frogger1985 May 10, 2006 09:38 PM

Has anyone ever tried feeding or heard of anyone feeding african clawed frogs a good quality high protein cat food?
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Replies (2)

kxi May 20, 2006 03:08 AM

i wouldnt recomond it. it would foul their water horribly, if not toxify it.
if you want to give it a variety, alternate between frozen bloodworms, freeze dried bloodworms, tubifex worms, diced earthworms, diced mealworms, pinhead crickets, fruitflies, baby fish, brine shrimp, beefheart,pinhead crickets, fruit flies and diced raw fish. all of those things should be available at your local petstore. if they arent than whatever "frog/newt food" form of freeze dried bloodworms that they have at walmart would be fine, or any bloodworms for that matter.
make sure that you dont overfeed also, water (especially unfiltered, if thats the case) has a tendancy to get real nasty if uneaten food stays in the gravel for too long.

froggz37 Jun 09, 2006 09:39 PM

I belive that it would run too large of a risk for impaction, which can be life threatening. Also the chemicals and bi-products in commercial cat food could easilly poison your frog.

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