These amphibians can have different sizes, volumes and weight and based on this they can carry out a series of movements more quickly or can store greater proportions of food inside their body, unlike when they are newborns or younger.
They are on a much lower scale, because they are food for many others greater than them, in size and strength, despite this and their inferior position they do not need to kill what they eat. Specifically, they do not eat any type of vegetable, they prefer to eat animals from the group of invertebrates such as bees or wasps, they also like the most tender and delicate ones such as some worms, or those with the coarsest and most robust shell such as They can be, for example, beetles and some cockroaches, also hairy spiders among many others. Depending on the types of prey that the habitat in which they live can provide them, so is their diet. The type of assimilation that their body has makes them beings with a lot of appetite.
They do not have any teeth in their mouth, so the insects that they eat swallow them completely whole, without crushing or chewing them, specifically it is the upper part of their jaw that is used to catch the prey they want to hunt. A characteristic feature that is very impressive, especially to humans who see it, is the type of tongue it has, as it is very elastic, sticky, long and they know how to use it very quickly, when it comes to taking it out and putting it back in. mouth. This movement of entry and exit almost impossible to visualize correctly, they perform it when catching insects, it is a very effective movement, so when they see their prey and stick out their tongue it is almost impossible for them to get rid of ending up in the inside of his convex body. The most striking of all is that they carry out a mechanism that no other animal carries out, and that is that when it comes to swallowing, that is, to get the insect they have trapped to pass inside their stomach, they have to help themselves in another way. part of the body, which in this case are the eyes, specifically the muscles that surround the eyes and the eyelids, need to close them in this way, their skull is pressed inwards and acts as a thrust, which presses down on the prey it has on the mouth and ends up pushing it inwards. All this strange mechanism occurs easily since frogs do not have bones in that part of the body.
A remarkable fact is that when they are adults, due to the size of their body they are able to eat animals that have a volume similar to that of their body, such as rats and mice, even those of the same species.
Domestic frogs eat:
The care they have to receive must be measured, as well as all the food, because when it comes to an animal that is no longer in its habitat, it is necessary to recreate it as much as possible so that it is comfortable and leads a life as similar as possible to the one he would wear in freedom. The water that should be given to them should not contain any trace of chlorine; it can be inside the cabinet for up to two days, if it cannot be changed even up to three, every day is not necessary in any case. The food that is given to them should always be from specialized stores, the owner of the amphibian must have knowledge or be informed before adopting it, especially everything related to its diet, so that it is not deceived. It is important to respect the schedules and quantities, all of this influences, even if it seems that. Within their food they include worms, larvae, crickets or other insects, although like other animals, there are already perfectly approved bags of total quality that contain those types of proteins or vitamins that they are in need of, without having to go looking for invertebrates. One of the components included in these products is called Artesia Franciscan; it is a very tiny brachiopod that becomes a very rich food for frogs. All this set of elements will provide them with the vitality they need and will gradually follow the normal course of their development and grow normally.
There are vitamins that appear completely crushed, specifically in bags made entirely of a powder that are also food. It is enough to feed them every three days at most, although there are veterinary experts who recommend that they be fed in the three most important meal periods that humans also have.
Insects or bagged food should not be left on them for more than fifteen minutes.
