My GABF Graboune reluctant with nightcrawlers

[GRABibus]

Hey,

My Pyxie, who has a big appetite and has always eaten everything (Mices, crickets, nightcrawlers, locusts, roaches) is more and more reluctant to eat nightcrawlers....

I just wonder what could explain this....

Can they change their feeding habits during time ??

Thank you.

[GrifTheGreat]

Hey,

My Pyxie, who has a big appetite and has always eaten everything (Mices, crickets, nightcrawlers, locusts, roaches) is more and more reluctant to eat nightcrawlers....

I just wonder what could explain this....

Can they change their feeding habits during time ??

Thank you.

Some frogs get bored with a food item if Fed mostly that item, but it could also be something wrong with the worms. For example say that you've always been buying the same brand night crawlers that are kept in a particular soil and for some reason they're out of your brand so you purchase a different brand, but these worms are kept in a different soil. The new brands soil could make the worms taste differently and if its a bad taste it could turn the frog off eating night crawlers period due to the frog remembering the bad taste and making the connection that night crawler equals bad taste. This can happen.

Another example are Red Wigglers which release a noxious secretion when injured or when they feel threatened. Frogs will eat them until they get a taste of that secretion and then will not eat them anymore. This happens a lot with Red Wigglers.

[GRABibus]

It is always nightcrawlers coming from teh same brand.
She doesn't accept them anymore where they are on the substrate of its enclosure.
She accepts them when they are in its water bowl...Maybe because they move much more in water...

[Lija]

mine eats only out of water bowl and will refuse it for days if given otherwise and like yours mine was eating perfectly fine before in or out his enclosure.

i think it's just individual preference and actually as long as he eats I'm ok with that.

[Kevin1]

Does she have a hard time catching them?

[GRABibus]

When she was interested, yes she had hard time. A lot of trial before catching them.
When she was younger, she was more active and more skilled to catched them.

I tried alsos to offer nightcrawlers with tongue, she is not interested also...
When she was younger, she accepted nightcrawlers with tongue.

I thing she won't eat nightcrawlers anymore.

[GrifTheGreat]

When she was interested, yes she had hard time. A lot of trial before catching them.
When she was younger, she was more active and more skilled to catched them.

I tried alsos to offer nightcrawlers with tongue, she is not interested also...
When she was younger, she accepted nightcrawlers with tongue.

I thing she won't eat nightcrawlers anymore.

Maybe she remembers the stress of having trouble catching them and that is why she refuses them now. Poor girl

[GRABibus]

I'd like to be poor as she is

Quiet, heated, and waiting for food ! A dream !! lol Only a male is missing

She still catches the nighcrawlers when they move a lot in her water bowl...But she goes very very rarely in her water bowl
Hopefully, she is still interested by roaches, crickets, locusts and mices (Even with tongue).

I will try also "Frog legs" : this a is a famous meal in France...Sorry for that...
We can buy them frozen at supermarket.
Frog legs are a good alternative to nightcrawlers I think

She also defecates rarely ...One or 2 times a month, not more.
I soak her each week to make her defecate, but even with soak, sometimes, she doesn't defecate.

[Kevin1]

They often lose interest in nightcrawlers and earthworms do to the difficulty in catching them. what helps them get a grip is to coat the worms in calcium

[Eddie Munster]

Mine was having trouble catching them. Then was getting turned off by them. He would make 2 attempts at it then give up. I noticed if I drop the worm from the top of the tank it would wiggle more and he was all over it.

[Kevin1]

I'm telling you guys try coating them in calcium.

[GRABibus]

That's not the problem of calcium or not (I tried already this solution).
She is not interested anymore and doesn't try anymore to catch them (Whatever calcium or not...).

Only in the water bowl, she is still interested and catches them.