Ok i have read mixed reviews.?

Question

ok i have 5 frogs and a toad. The toad and 4 of the frogs are big enough to eat pinkie mice(and seem to love them) but i hear people say don't more than once a week they are high in fat. Here is my problem, i hate adding artificial stuff to my pets diet IE dusting powers, they don't seem to care for the Dusted crickets much, and Pinkies provide more nutrition than crickets. Has anyone had a frog/toad that was purely pinkie fed? and if so how was his health?Side note i breed mice so i have a good supply of pinkies.

sorry should have thought to include this the frogs are either common Bullfrogs or common green frogs and the toad is a common bufo, all are wild caught. please no one recommend returning them to the wild they are my kids pets and arent going anywhere

i also make sure the pinkies have a belly full of milk before feeding them to my frogs/toad

Answer 1

You can reduce the need for additives by feeding a greater variety of food items, such as different types of insects, earthworms, etc.
Nobody dusts their bugs for them in the wild!

Answer 2

I feed my pacman pinkies, hoppers and crickets my other frogs I stck with just crickets and mealworms. feeding anything just one item is not normally good for it because rarely does a single food source contain everything they need. dusting provides calcium of course but with pinkies they have a great supply of pure D3 located in the liver which is what calcium with uvb is converted to. I cannot fully answer your question only because i do not know what type of frogs/toads you have. but if I was to feed a single item to a pacman because I was restricted on what was available it would most definately be pinkies out of the standard foods of herps and amphibs. just because of the variety of vitamins minerals and straight calories. most ampibs are insectivors pretty much but will eat to survive. some common frogs and toads will actually starve to death instead of changing their diet. whether due to inability to eat anything else or just do not know they can.

Answer 3

You are still likely going to encounter calcium deficiency problems with a non-supplemented diet of pink mice.
Newborn mice lack a well calcified skeleton and because of this they have a poor calcium to phoshorous ratio (less then 1:1) Dipping the rumps of the pinkies in the supplement is the recommended way of correcting this imbalance.