We have have a wild caught grey tree frog for about a year. We got him when he was really, really little. Everything was good for a long while, he has his hiding spots ate every one or two days, consistently in his water.


Then this winter he went for a disappearing act. Over night he went from being out and about most of the time to 100% hiding inside one of the decorations/frog toys we have in there. With this came an immediate perceived loss of appetite. He went from a meal every day or two to a week between meals. Even then a meal was only one cricket and then he was gone for a week. He showed no signs of being in his water during these week long "hibernations". He was in a low/medium traffic area that was kept at a consistent 66-68 degrees.

After 3 months of this low eating his eating suddenly 100% stopped for 2.5 weeks. We grew more and more concerned as every day went by. Eventually he showed himself in his water dish and we removed the item he would hide in to make his food more visible to him. Furthermore, we moved him to a much less trafficked area but this came with the trade off of it being about 6-8 degrees colder at a consistent temperature of 60 degrees. Since this move a week has gone by. He is much much much more active leaving his hiding spot behind his ledge almost every night, and most nights going into his water. The only problem is he still hasn't eaten and it has been 3 weeks.

We have tried feeding him crickets and wax worms, two things he has gone for in the past. He has never accepted food from tweezers, despite trying multiple times. He has a very large food dish about 7 inches long by 4 inches wide and a short lip that has plenty of room for his food to move around and be seen. Should we try some sort of heat lamp to raise the temperature and possibly trigger feeding? If so what type of bulb? HOW CAN WE HELP HIM EAT!