PCF problems

[Shiro]

Hi, I'm new here. I have 3 pacific chorus frogs, one of which is a baby(about the size of a pinky nail, a bit smaller even) who is off food. The other two get fed every other day, and Frogger (the smaller one) gets fed every day, sometimes twice a day. Recently she's been off food. Big Legs and Shadow are eating fine and I have no trouble with them. Does anyone know why Frogger might have gone off food?

I have a lot of sticks and grass in their tank for hides and a large water dish for them. I have moist soil as substrate and I change it once a month and mist every day. It's a one gallon tank, which I know is small, but it's temporary. My mom was overdrawn, do we couldn't get the 10 gallon tall that I had wanted.

They eat crickets and earth worms that are found in my garden, which has no pesticides or herbicides.

[Frog Mom]

Have you tried feeding fruit flies? When my PCF's were small, that's the food they really wanted. I bought a culture at Petco. You can order them online, as well, if you don't have a pet store with fruit fly cultures near you.

[Shiro]

The only fruitflies we have are ones that need to be caught, and that's pretty hard to do. Where I live, there are only 2 pet shops, one is disgusting (she gave me dead half eaten pinheads and tried charging me $2/dozen) and the other doesn't carry any fruitflies, and wont special order them.

[Shiro]

I got her to eat a couple fruit flies the other day. I left out a glass of soda hoping to attract fruitflies into my room (I'm seriously going crazy). Next month I'll try to buy some fruitflies online or something.

[Frog Mom]

I'm glad you got her to eat something. Yeah, the pet store in my town doesn't have the best crickets either. Fortunately, Petco isn't too far away. You might try sticking a slice of apple or some other fruit in the tank. I put one in a dish to attract the crickets in there that managed to escape being eaten at feedings, and the fruit flies I put in there always end up on the fruit too. Maybe you could attract some wild ones in that way.

Good luck!

[Shiro]

I ordered fruit flies from flukers and received them today. I'm happy to announce that Frogger has eaten 10 of them. I kept fruit bits in the tank but I don't think any came. She was looking like a head attached to a stick. I'll be getting a few more vials of fruit flies when I have the money so Frogger can eat all she wants.

[Frog Mom]

Also, try looking for tanks at the thrift store or on craigslist. They are a lot cheaper there. Just be sure to sterilize it first to make sure it's clean and has no germs that will hurt your froggies.