Four Red Eyed Tree frog food competition

[ViperJr]

The only issue with your set-up is the side mounted heat pad, you will want a bottom mounted heat pad to warm the substarte and let the heat rise, if you keep the heat pad on the side of the tank, there is a chance one of the frogs will sleep on the glass where the heat pad is, and burn it's self. Very important to move it. Other than that, great set-up!

That's some unusual advice you are giving Royce. Side mounted UTH's are commonly used in tree frog tanks, and advice are often given to use this specific setup to heat tree frog terrariums (if you do a search on the forum, you'll find tons of threads where this specific advice are given by experienced tree frog owners). Even though I personally prefer using light as a heat source, I there's nothing wrong with using UTH's on one side of the tank. This even have some advantages over lamps. The thing is, a UTH beneath the tank will do close to zero good in a tree frog tank. The substrate might become a little bit warmer, but it will not raise the ambient temperature one bit. Especially since this terrarium is a vertical one. Lastly (if I remember correctly), the exo-terra UTH is a very low wattage one.
To sum it up, you do not want to move the UTH to under the tank, because it will not raise the temperature. Side mounted UTH is commonly used.

Now, about the feeding... I would not be too concerned yet. You could add more feeding bowls, so you have a total of, say two or three, and then put crickets in all three of them. This will hopefully allow the other frogs to eat even if the food-hogger sits in one of the bowls. I would not worry about obesity either, unless it becomes extremely large and shows sign of being ill. Red eyes seems to regulate the food-intake very nicely, and therefore very seldomly suffers of obesity, unlike some other tree frogs (White's tree frog being a prime example).

Lastly, welcome to the forum and I hope your frogs will live a long and healthy life in you care!

[Malice]

I began with an under tank heater, and like you said it literally did not raise the temperature even a little bit. It really just dried out the substrate and that is it. It was not until I did more research via forums and youtube that it was suggested to me to try a side mounted heating pad. This completely solved my heat problem, and with my recent repti fogger pickup my ideal enviromental conditions have been met. I am going to try the food bowl idea, as I like to experiment with different things. Here is a picture of three of the frogs during my recent cleaning, the fourth frog jumped away before I could get all of the in a quick picture. As you can probably guess, frog X as it at the top. Thanks for the advice and the warm welcome.

[ViperJr]

I began with an under tank heater, and like you said it literally did not raise the temperature even a little bit. It really just dried out the substrate and that is it. It was not until I did more research via forums and youtube that it was suggested to me to try a side mounted heating pad. This completely solved my heat problem, and with my recent repti fogger pickup my ideal enviromental conditions have been met. I am going to try the food bowl idea, as I like to experiment with different things. Here is a picture of three of the frogs during my recent cleaning, the fourth frog jumped away before I could get all of the in a quick picture. As you can probably guess, frog X as it at the top. Thanks for the advice and the warm welcome.

I am no expert, but it sure looks like one female (the big one) and two males. What concerns me is the light-green coloration on the bottommost frog. Once again, I am no expert, but according to other threads here, that might be a clear indicator of a bacterial infection.You should get that checked up as soon as possible. I might be a natural thing, but then again, it might not.