Bull Frog Feeding Question

[KBHicks2012]

I understand that our forum is more snake based, but I have recently added two beautiful bull frogs to my collection, and well the first frogs I have ever had the pleasure of owning. It took the little-big guys a week to feel comfortable and begin exploring and evidently worked up an appetite. Inside their enclosure I had also placed feeder gold fish for them, and well this morning all 10 of the feeder are gone. My question is, will the frogs limit their selfs on their intake of food, and go ahead and replace the feeders, or will the eat to much in excess of what they are able to and well die from it. Please any and all help greatly appreciated.

[stephanbakir]

Frogs can easily get obese if you feed them too much. What species of bull frog are they?

[jarich]

Bullfrogs are eating machines, yes. I dont think they would eat until they die, but as Stephen said, they will definitely eat until they get obese and unhealthy. Best to limit the amount of food they get. I would also make sure to vary that diet. Feeder goldfish arent a great staple food, so add things like crickets, roaches, grasshoppers, worms, etc to the fish diet.

[KBHicks2012]

As far as I can figure they are just American Bull Frog, nothing to fancy, but I believe they are amazingly beautiful creatures.
http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b587/kbhicks2012/A0F50AE0-354F-4B93-84DC-E98BA0D41AEE-1341-000000D3C43E5D54_zps6b6c8def.jpg

I had learned in some of the research I had done on them they will eat daily, and pretty much anything they can fit in their mouth, but didn't expect all the feeders to be gone in one night

[KBHicks2012]

Bullfrogs are eating machines, yes. I dont think they would eat until they die, but as Stephen said, they will definitely eat until they get obese and unhealthy. Best to limit the amount of food they get. I would also make sure to vary that diet. Feeder goldfish arent a great staple food, so add things like crickets, roaches, grasshoppers, worms, etc to the fish diet.

I have placed crickets in on the dry side, not quiet sure on if or how's my they had eaten of those, they are alittle harder to find at times lol

http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b587/kbhicks2012/C81F00AD-F4EF-4EE4-856A-29E68063117B-1341-000000D3CC9340C0_zps8070fa8f.jpg

[stephanbakir]

A few years ago we saw a bullfrog with a head the size of a golf ball hanging off of a GIANT snapping turtles foot. He was trying to swallow the foot of a 50+ pound turtle. Their appetites are insane, you need to control it in captivity. In the wild things can run away, captivity they cant :P

[poison123]

It doesnt look like a bull frog to me. Its skin is to floppy unless hes just thin.

[KBHicks2012]

It doesnt look like a bull frog to me. Its skin is to floppy unless hes just thin.

The second frog that I have is actually alot larger, I was personally just thinking one was female and the other male.

[jarich]

Ya, those look like bullfrogs to me. Just little babies though, looks like they just lost their tails quite recently. They will literally eat anything they can fit in their mouths. I used to have one that would try to eat my hand every time I went in the enclosure to clean. Awesome animals!

Edit: Just found this article that backs up that thought...

Stomach contents from invasive American bullfrogs Rana catesbeiana (= Lithobates catesbeianus) on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada - Pensoft (http://www.pensoft.net/journals/neobiota/article/3806/stomach-contents-from-invasive-american-bullfrogs-rana-catesbeiana-=-lithobates-catesbeianus-on-southern-vancouver-islan)

[KBHicks2012]

I truely believe they can try to bite off more then they can chew, I have seen se crazy photos while I was doing my research on them.