HELP! i'm new!

[Heatheranne]

A cricket keeper is a plastic container with tubes that extend out. The crickets gather into the tubes. You can powder them easily with calcium/vita D powder and then just tap the end of a tube over your frog tank and out they come. It's easy. I buy crickets every week or two and feed the crickets with gut-loading food and cricket gel water. Then clean out the cricket keep every one to two weeks emptying out all dead crickets and left over food and debris, egg crate and the paper towel I place in the bottom, and wipe everything out. It sounds like a lot of work, but it is really quick and easy. I'll take a picture of mine later. Hope this helps. Just a suggestion.

[Ali Robertson]

trying the glass bowl trick... cant believe the crickets dont jump out!!

i tried one of those cricket feeder things... the exo terra ones that look kinda like a rock. but when i checked last night the crickets that where left inside were dead.

gonna have a count of crickets and stuff tonight as i didnt get the chance this morning before work. will try (again) to get pictures of V.ella (crazy name, i know... 6 yr old nephew named her) tonight so you guys can check her out. would be great to get people's opinions on my viv and stuff.


just wandering, is it safe for the frog if i put some of that cricket water into the glass bowl inside the viv, or is it unsafe for the frog.... if she eats that is.

also, John mentioned about taking her to the vets if she still continues to not eat.... do people have an idea of how much that costs here in England??

[Ali Robertson]

Hi everyone. worries are over now.

she's feeding normally now. about 500% more active than she's ever been.
i've gone back to locusts now, i'm generally a lot happier than with the locusts and she seems to be responding to them a lot more.

put about 5 in last night, and within half an hour, we seen her bouncing and jumping all over the tank so i feel like all my worries with her not feeding are lifted now. she went from eating maybe 4 insects within a month, to eating maybe 9 insects within the last coulple of nights.

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR THIER ADVICE!!!!!!

it really really helped!! so appreciative of it all.

Basically, it took some patients, whilst trying a few different things. the rise in temperature of the tank seems to have helped a lot too. she looks and acts like a different frog now.

Thanks again people!!

[DonLisk]

Great to hear.
Thank you for letting us know too.

You will have a lot of fun watching her now that she has become more active.

[Ali Robertson]

yeah already i find her fascinating to just watch. me and my girlfriend where watching the TV, when we heard a loud bang on the glass from inside the tank, we looked over and the frog was just flat up against the door glass. then shot off somewhere else.... then about ten minutes later 'bang!'.... she was up against the glass again. and then back into the leaves

its great hearing her hunt properly now. feel so less stressed too now, so i can go about just enjoying looking after her.