Red eyed tree frogs. First time keeper. Opinions / Advice required :-)

[DonLisk]

Sounds fine to me. You can use the cricket bowl method to feed and monitor what they are eating. Basicily you use a glass bowl and place the crickets in it. You can sink the bowl into the substrate and the escaped crickets will eventually make their way back into the bowl and get stuck there due to not getting traction to jump out. Note that the bowl needs to be clean since once dirty, the crickets can get traction to jump out.

If you don't need the night light for heat purposes, you may want to remove it if your noticing the frogs are not active at night. They really like the darkness.

Welcome and congrats on the new RTFs.

[ben7ani]

Thanks for the reply - i will set up that glass bowl tonight, brilliant idea.

With regards to the orchid bark this shouldnt be a problem now if I use the bowl feeding technique?? The touble will be finding a decent steep sided bowl :-) - I was kind of worried about impaction as well with the bark (again the bowl should help this issue) thanks a lot :-)

[DonLisk]

I'm not a fan of the bark but RTFs are not aggressive like some other frogs and with the bowl, they'll just sit at the bowls edge and pick the crickets off with ease.

I use a cereal bowl and have found the stoneware type bowls work good too. I even used a cup once but with the flat bottom you would get a few crickets to escape.

[ben7ani]

I’ll be definitely incorporating the bowl technique… that’s a really good way of being able to monitor food intake, so thanks for that idea. I’ll just have to hope none jump out because that will ruin the objective... they are only small crickets at the moment anyway so shouldn’t pose a problem in terms of escaping. My substrate isn’t that deep so guess I will have to deepen it so crickets can fall back in the bowl. Will a 3-4 inches high bowl be ok (and obviously curved)?

What would you recommend for juvenile frogs in terms of substrate - soil or moss? Or perhaps something else?

[Dog Shrink]

For neat odd shaped glass bowls you could also look at the candle section at wal mart or similar stores. I found some great square candle holders about 4 inches tall that could work great for this application.

[ben7ani]

im going to be popping out today to see what bowl i can find that fits this purpose.. might be a bowl, might not be

[bshmerlie]

My bowl is only couple of inches deep and it works.