Possibly urgent? Baby isn't eating and hes starting to worry me....

[GrifTheGreat]

Welp got some red wigglers tonight and just tried to get Baby to eat them and still no go. Im having a hard time sizing them, though. I dig threw and try to find very small ones (most are large but quite a few are pretty small) but then they stretch out so I dont know if Baby thinks there too big or something and wont eat it. Should I take a larger one and cut it? I saw another post about how that would help him smell it and be a bit more enticed then just the wiggling mass around his mouth.

Also, we keep these guys in the fridge at work but do they have to be refrigerated? Or would a moderately cool dark place be ok? I forgot to ask before everyone left and all I can find online is about composting. And my parents are a bit "yich" at the idea of having the worms in the fridge..... X3


Also, Baby's been very active. Hes out and about hopping around his tank, using his water dish to soak, and going in and out of the half log. This is normal for my tree girls but I dont know if its normal for a pac (I thought they were fairly lazy little things). If its normal behavior should I even be worried that hes not eating?

I wish I could put up the pics I have of him tonight but at the moment I cant connect the camera to the computer. But I've got pics of several days ago and compared them to now and it seems like his color has gotten a LOT darker. Before it was a bright leafy green and now its a deep blackish green with a lighter line down the middle of his back where I'd assume his spine is and at his hips.

You can cut up the larger red wigglers as well. Try and keep his environment consistant. It is normal for younger ones and sometimes older ones to be up and about their tank. Most of the time they are lazy, but they will roam occationally. You can just leave the crickets that you removed the hind legs from in and just let him hunt them. Don't forget to dust. They change color as they age/due to food they eat/mood/and with the substrate to blend in.

[InfinitysDaughter]

I have bad news.

I talked with Lori and she looked Baby over and we both agreed that he had lost over half his body weight since he'd been there for his eye infection. It hurt a lot (and I mean A LOT) but I made the decision that I would rather give him up then have him die from malnutrition. She said that only time will tell if he will get better and start eating or if he just had a bad bug (possibly a bit of the infection got into his system? not really sure). I decided that he needed to be with someone much more experienced then I and that is totally Lori.

I had the option of exchanging him for a different pac but 1) I just dont know if I could at the moment. I bonded with baby yaknow? Just cant replace him like that. And 2) even though everyone says there was probably nothing I could have done to keep this from happening I feel it was my inexperience that caused this and I feel I need to be a more experienced frog owner before I try just a stress prone breed of frog.

I decided to give a home to a Whites tree frog we've had for several weeks now. Tree frogs I know. Tree frogs I have experience with.


I wont give up on pacs. It may be several months or a year but I will get another pac eventually. I may look into buying an older pac that is a little hardier then the tiny babies we sell at petsmart. Thank you so much Grif. You have tried so hard to help me but it just seems that Baby was not destined to be happy with me. I've learned a lot from this experience and it has expanded my love for frogs from just the arboreal into the terrestrial and inadvertently into the aquatic too. I fear my room will start to look like the aquatics/reptile habs at work soon. X3

Thank you again and please pray that Baby gets better and someone with more experience comes along and gives him a better home then I could. I know I will pray. He deserves it.

[GrifTheGreat]

I have bad news.

I talked with Lori and she looked Baby over and we both agreed that he had lost over half his body weight since he'd been there for his eye infection. It hurt a lot (and I mean A LOT) but I made the decision that I would rather give him up then have him die from malnutrition. She said that only time will tell if he will get better and start eating or if he just had a bad bug (possibly a bit of the infection got into his system? not really sure). I decided that he needed to be with someone much more experienced then I and that is totally Lori.

I had the option of exchanging him for a different pac but 1) I just dont know if I could at the moment. I bonded with baby yaknow? Just cant replace him like that. And 2) even though everyone says there was probably nothing I could have done to keep this from happening I feel it was my inexperience that caused this and I feel I need to be a more experienced frog owner before I try just a stress prone breed of frog.

I decided to give a home to a Whites tree frog we've had for several weeks now. Tree frogs I know. Tree frogs I have experience with.


I wont give up on pacs. It may be several months or a year but I will get another pac eventually. I may look into buying an older pac that is a little hardier then the tiny babies we sell at petsmart. Thank you so much Grif. You have tried so hard to help me but it just seems that Baby was not destined to be happy with me. I've learned a lot from this experience and it has expanded my love for frogs from just the arboreal into the terrestrial and inadvertently into the aquatic too. I fear my room will start to look like the aquatics/reptile habs at work soon. X3

Thank you again and please pray that Baby gets better and someone with more experience comes along and gives him a better home then I could. I know I will pray. He deserves it.

I'm sorry, but maybe it is for the best. His battle with that infection may have caused him to become ill. You tried really hard and did the best you could. He couldn't ask for more than that. Hopefully he will recover from this and be well. An experianced keepermight just give Baby a better chance. He will be in my thaughts and prayers.

You are welcome for the help I. Provided.