Quote Originally Posted by SwimminSteve View Post
I'd bet that he scraped his nose on something. It's happened to one of my frogs in the past. She healed up fine without treatment. I can still see a bit of a scar where the injury was, but she's fine. Keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't start to look fuzzy or red/irritated. As far as appetite, I wouldn't worry too too much. Some frogs are voracious, some less so. You're right, he probably isn't a huge fan of reptomin. They can get bored of a boring diet. I feed a lot of frozen brine shrimp and bloodworms. I know there are very mixed opinions, but my frogs have been very healthy and happy for years. Hand-feeding the bloodworms/brine shrimp is so much fun too. They go nuts!
Your frog is probably having trouble getting his food with those rocks. Everything will fall through the cracks. I recommend sand or bare bottom. I have a tank of each and they're easy to maintain with a turkey baster and gravel vac.
Frozen foods now and then aren't going to harm your frog. Buy good quality (hikari) and don't overfeed (any food for that matter) and you should be fine. Remember that you can cut the cubes for smaller portions. I just hold the frozen cube in the water long enough for the worms on the outside to start to thaw and float free. Then I hold it up to my frogs face and hold on while they attack and rip at the cube. They have become so "friendly" from this and will even go after my hand while I clean the tank. I'm able to regulate everyone's portions this way and make sure that minimal food is wasted to prevent a big mess. I think it counts for playtime enrichment too. I can't emphasize enough how much they love it. lol
I was going to replace the pebbles with pool filter sand this weekend. I would go bare bottom but I have a lot of plants in my aquarium and the frogs seem to enjoy them, I think sand is the next best thing to no substrate. I have used pool filter sand in my 55g and it looks pretty nice and the general consensus is it's ACF safe (very fine and smooth silica).

I use the same method for feeding my frogs with frozen food. Whatever they miss I scoop up with a turkey baster and try to make sure it doesn't get wasted. They are definitely more 'aware' of frozen blood worms and shrimp, they go pretty crazy.. poor little guy though just doesn't go as 'crazy' as he used to for food so I'm a little worried still. I'm breeding guppies right now as well for live food.. I've been placing some fry in the tank with my frogs.. so far they've ignored them.. seen the albino lunge at them a few times but his aim is off.. the fry so far are all alive lol..

I have a kind of unusual method with feeding my frogs reptomin, I have some wooden skewers, I soak the reptomin a bit and just stick the reptomin on t he end of the skewer and put the reptomin in front my frogs, my albino (which has endless hunger) seems to enjoy this method since he has now taken to just attacking the skewer the second he sees it whether it has food or not on it.. the little guy with the nose issue, at first he was pretty voracious himself but he just doesn't seem as hungry any more, he will gobble up two pellets and then any thing further he just runs away from it or ignore it, kind of weird. Maybe hitting his nose messed up his sense of locating food? Then again my albino went through a phase of not eating either and he's a beast now when it come to food and he's grow insanely fast (i think he might be a she)..

How long does it take to heal on average? I hope he returns to normal soon. He seems to hide more than my other frog, he's seems fond of jamming himself behind the filter intake on my tank a lot.. ugh.. I'm hoping he gets a bit more outgoing.