Sleeping in the Water Dish?

[CamilleElise]

I'm sorry to hear no vet is available nearby.

However, that is great news about your frog! Does Froggy have a name yet? I'm glad he went poo! It varies for White's but generally my frogs make bigger ones (though they are sometimes smaller than normal) and they are usually a solid mass, that yes, does look a bit wet. They will dry out pretty quickly so generally anything made the night before if I find it the next day is dry by the time I clear it out. It sounds pretty normal for a Whites poo.

Not a fun picture because it's of poo, but if it looked something like this, except wet, that's normal (these ones are dried out) Recent image by whitie2 on Photobucket

If Whites ever start making completely watery poo with no form to it, be worried, that's not normal. But, keep in mind that if they poo in their water dish, sometimes the water will disintegrate the poo by the time you find it in the morning, so don't stress if that happens.

[Sasha]

You're frog looks like a nice healthy chunky frog! There is no redness to it's belly or anything that is a good sign. I think he is just taking his time getting adjusted. One of the frogs that I just bought from Petco is the same color but he's eating and pooping and even learning to croak!

Was the person you spoke to at the store the same person that sold you the frog? Maybe it's just a matter of this person just not knowing anything. When I exchanged one of my first frogs the sales person was going to put my new frog in a plastic bag and I had to correct her and tell her to give me a small box. They assured me that the other frog was going to be looked after, they have a vet that comes once a week and will check on it. I was worried about that until I found my vet and he told me that he used to be one of those vets.

I'm sorry that your first experience with White's hasn't been so good. They really are great frogs, with lots of spunk and personality (when they are healthy).

[DonLisk]

Your Whites Tree Frog looks nice and healthy in the photos.

As for sleeping in the water dish, they will often use the dish to re-hydrate and after his time at the pet store he probably was glad to have a clean water dish that he felt comfortable using. My WTFs would soak at night and when over soaked, causes the frog to look bloated due to taking in too much water. just stand clear if he pees :-)

Excessive soaking can be from many things but if your humidity low end is about 50 percent or higher then your tanks humidity is fine. Temps at night should be around 68 to 72 and day tamps of about 78 to 80 degrees.
As for why they would soak excessively, lack of humidity, trying to loosen a shed, trying to get something off such as mites, or just got lazy and fell asleep there are some reasons that come to mind.

To reduce the chance of impaction in the future, use the cricket bowl method for feeding, which helps with the reduction of loose crickets in the enclosure, allows for monitoring how much and often they eat, and since they are not the most accurate at hitting a cricket when diving for them, reduces the chance of them eating the substrate often.

As for poop, nothing similar to a Pacman's poop. Usually like the size of a piece of Sugar Smacks Cereal (but twice as lone) for an adult WTF. They will drop them in the water dish or below where they sleep most of the time.

Again, nice looking frog.

Don

[HerpDerp]

Thanks for the poo picture! It's a bit bigger than what he had but it definitely looks normal! And I named him Glurmo (mega brownie points if anyone gets the reference!).

And yeah, they put him in a bag to go home in . I don't understand why they would do that. I didn't say anything because I live a couple miles away from the petstore and I wanted to get him out of there ASAP. The girl that sold him to me was new there and she's the one that let slip that his tank mate had died a couple weeks before that. So probably she was just being a friendly employee and actually cared, unlike the one that I talked to on the phone. She even told me she has a pixi frog and he just sits around and does nothing so it's normal for my white's to act that way... It took all my will power not to laugh at her when she said that. Obviously a bull frog and a tree frog are going to have completely different habits. I've decided when I get a second white's I'm going to go through an online breeder. I don't think I can hold my tongue if I have to deal with this again!

And aside from all that confusion I really do love my white's! Right before he strikes at crickets his feet twitch... so entertaining to watch LOL

[Sasha]

I love the name! I'll be honest, I didn't get the reference but I looked it up and I think it's perfect! He sounds like he's doing pretty good now.

You mentioned earlier that you were going to feed him nightcrawlers, how'd that go? I fed mine some red wigglers the other night it was hilarious. Olive ate his right out of the bowl on his first strike, Skitter is very spoiled and she had to be tong fed, Shrek (the biggest of them all) had a real hard time getting it out of the bowl and then refused to eat it off the tongs. She looked so defeated! The two sat there though for a good half hour getting them down. Scared me at first but they got it.

[HerpDerp]

He doesn't really seem that interested in night crawlers right now. I'm going to try again tonight. I also got him some bigger crickets today so maybe he can actually taste them when he eats! I never really had luck with red wigglers when I had my pacman frog. He would eat them sometimes but I don't think he liked how long and skinny they were because he had to "slurp" them up like spaghetti LOL. I cut up the night crawlers for Glurmo. He will twitch a bit but then decides he doesn't want it. I put him in a tupperware container in the enclosure to feed him and one of the worm pieces wiggled against his food and he like jumped back haha. I don't think he understands that it's food!