feeding tricks/help

[zig3y]

hey guys once again my whites tree frog Monty has me asking questions. I was able to hand feed him with tweezers for about a week but he has stopped, I honestly don't know why. so I have resorted to putting about 10 crickets in every couple of days and even after three days i will still find about 5 crickets in his tank. He is only 4-5 months old and seems to be very healthy but i just want to make sure i have a way of feeding him the proper amount of crickets. If you guys could let me know some of your tricks and or methods of feeding your frogs that would be helpful! please note Monty will never eat something dead he prefers alive, don't know if this is every frog but Monty refuses to eat anything that doesn't move.

Another question that I have about feeding is switching up foods he eats, I would like to give him a treat every once in a while and have heard earth worms and meal-worms do great, what would you guys suggest? thanks for reading hope you guys can come up with some great answers!

[Kristen87]

When you feed with tweezers is the cricket still alive? I find what works for me is to hold it by a leg or something so that it is still moving around a lot and that seems to get the attention of the frogs more... I'm still a noobie at this so that's all I can offer you sorry!

[GrifTheGreat]

hey guys once again my whites tree frog Monty has me asking questions. I was able to hand feed him with tweezers for about a week but he has stopped, I honestly don't know why. so I have resorted to putting about 10 crickets in every couple of days and even after three days i will still find about 5 crickets in his tank. He is only 4-5 months old and seems to be very healthy but i just want to make sure i have a way of feeding him the proper amount of crickets. If you guys could let me know some of your tricks and or methods of feeding your frogs that would be helpful! please note Monty will never eat something dead he prefers alive, don't know if this is every frog but Monty refuses to eat anything that doesn't move.

Another question that I have about feeding is switching up foods he eats, I would like to give him a treat every once in a while and have heard earth worms and meal-worms do great, what would you guys suggest? thanks for reading hope you guys can come up with some great answers!

I believe Lynn/Heatheranne/or Don Lisk can give you the answers you need. I will say that they used a glass bowl and places the crickets in it. The glass bowl is slick and the crickets can't. Get traction so the frog can sit on the edge of the bowl and pick off the amount of crickets he wants.

[Heatheranne]

Yes, the glass bowl way works well. My retf's do not tong feed. They prefer to hunt. They eat about 2-3 medium crickets every day or other day. They like baby dubias and have eaten cut up red wigglers. I do not use meal worms bc years ago I lost a firebelly toad due to impaction.

Hope this helps .

[zig3y]

Yes, the glass bowl way works well. My retf's do not tong feed. They prefer to hunt. They eat about 2-3 medium crickets every day or other day. They like baby dubias and have eaten cut up red wigglers. I do not use meal worms bc years ago I lost a firebelly toad due to impaction.

Hope this helps .

Hope it works! going to try to a glass bowl tomorrow and hopefully it will help me out, and also were could i get some red wigglers or baby dubias? couldn't find them at the local reptile store

[killerecho]

Second the glass bowl idea; I use them myself. You could also use a separate feeding container/tank - drop the frog in with a few crickets and let it feed for about 10-15 minutes before returning him to his cage. That way you can monitor exactly how much he eats. Not every frog will be comfortable with this method; but White's tend to be bold and voracious enough that a little traveling during mealtime should not affect their appetites. I do this with my gray tree frogs sometimes.

You can find red wigglers in most bait shops. Dubias are harder to come by locally; perhaps reptile shows; I actually found a source on craigslist once. If not, you can always order them online, assuming you are willing and able to keep them by the hundreds.

[DonLisk]

I'll jump in here to say the glass bowl, shaped like a cereal bowl with a nice round bottom works awesome for feeding and monitoring how well your frog is eating. You should also feed the same time daily just before lights out and return uneaten crickets to the cricket box in the morning.

Now that said, change is something you have to let the frog settle into. If is isn't eating, then he doesn't want to eat and sometimes won't every night. You have to make sure the meal isn't to big for him also. When you try the bowl, it may take a few days for him to take to, it might take one, its hard to say. As long as hes interested, active, hitting the water dish, and looking healthy, then he probably is. If your finding poop then hes eating something.

I have RETFs that eat once every three days sometimes and sometimes that meal is a single cricket and then off to perch and then sleep. All healthy and just eating what they want or feel they need.

[zig3y]

well couldn't find a glass bowl but put the crickets in a ziplock container that i used for a honey bath once, works great! crickets cant get out and the is a lip for Monty to sit on, hopefully this will work

[c0urt maRie]

I take out my whites for his normal feeding time and put him in a green kinda like container that I purchased from the dollar store and drop the crickets in there with him! It's big enough for him to hop around and chase the crickets in! It's about maybe a 12"x10" container thats plastic! He eats every cricket and gets his tummy full and finds a corner until I put him back in his cage! Hope this helped!

[Heatheranne]

This is what I use for Twiggy my retf. Stickers and Bubbles prefer to hunt so I also toss some in freely.