Thin frog?

[Arie]

That's great news that your fantasy frog ate a cricket! Keep up the great work! As for nightcrawlers, the ones I get often secrete mucus which might be a reason why your ornate spit it back out. I have to thoroughly rinse the worms off, then wipe them with a paper towel before my frogs will eat them. Once I get rid of the mucus, though, they happily munch on them!

[GrifTheGreat]

That's great news that your fantasy frog ate a cricket! Keep up the great work! As for nightcrawlers, the ones I get often secrete mucus which might be a reason why your ornate spit it back out. I have to thoroughly rinse the worms off, then wipe them with a paper towel before my frogs will eat them. Once I get rid of the mucus, though, they happily munch on them!

Usually the mucus isn't a problem for the frogs UNLESS the worms are Red Wigglers which secrete a noxious mucus when hurt or threatened that both smells and tastes bad. Usually after a frog eats a couple Red Wigglers they kind of stray away from them because of this secretion.

[emandkel]

Update: They are eating and growing

I haven't tried nightcrawlers again, the worms all died for some reason. Some were more listless than others when I got them. I wasn't sure what type of nightcrawler they were so kept them at room temperature in damp coco fiber. Maybe the frogs knew they shouldn't eat them although the one I cut up and offered was nice and wiggly.

[IvoryReptiles]

My guess is the batch of worms was going bad already.....it's the only time my frogs refuse nightcrawlers. You will see the mulch look wet and it will have a bad smell in the container........it smells like clean dirt when the worms are still good. They need to be stored in the fridge.....NOT the freezer.

[emandkel]

Updated pictures as of yesterday of my fantasy frog -- I put him in the dish, he was covered with coco fiber. He's grown -- both sizewise and fatter

[GrifTheGreat]

Updated pictures as of yesterday of my fantasy frog -- I put him in the dish, he was covered with coco fiber. He's grown -- both sizewise and fatter

Keep up the good work