Picky little froglette?

[imyourscar]

Get rid of the RO water and use the treated tap water instead.
Try offering some nightcrawler pieces. At that size, we offer food nightly. Try offering food in a separate container, they can learn a schedule and get "Trained" to tong feeding & the change in location for feedings. The enclosure may also be a factor.......the smaller frogs need a smaller area and can be intimidated by large open spaces. If you do try the worms, make sure the pieces are no bigger them the length of the frog itself. You can take a look at our videos for tips on feeding if you'd like, we made them specifically to help others with tong feeding.
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Best of Luck!!

So it's okay if I pull him out of his burrow? I haven't been offering food every day because he's been hiding and I was thinking that if he wasn't out and about, I shouldn't be messing with him; but if you recommend just scooping him out, I will! Hopefully I can find some nightcrawlers as the expo so I don't have to order online

Oh, and do you recommend moving him from the 5.5 gal to a large KK?

[GrifTheGreat]

So it's okay if I pull him out of his burrow? I haven't been offering food every day because he's been hiding and I was thinking that if he wasn't out and about, I shouldn't be messing with him; but if you recommend just scooping him out, I will! Hopefully I can find some nightcrawlers as the expo so I don't have to order online

Oh, and do you recommend moving him from the 5.5 gal to a large KK?

You dont necessarily have to remove your frog from its enclosure above if the frog gets stressed too much from handling. All you need to do is uncover the frog's head si that he/she can see that their is food present. This should be enough to help keep up with feeding. Keeping a good routine is also a good idea. At the same time every night uncover just the frog's head and it will begin to awaken at this time to feed each night.

You have been given great advice from Mike and Jess.
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[imyourscar]

You dont necessarily have to remove your frog from its enclosure above if the frog gets stressed too much from handling. All you need to do is uncover the frog's head si that he/she can see that their is food present. This should be enough to help keep up with feeding. Keeping a good routine is also a good idea. At the same time every night uncover just the frog's head and it will begin to awaken at this time to feed each night.

You have been given great advice from Mike and Jess.
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Excellent. I shall begin the tong training! And my shopping list includes another misting bottle for tap water, night crawlers, and possibly another KK for Mr. Porkypants.

Any other food recommendations, or will night crawlers and dubia suffice?

[GrifTheGreat]

Excellent. I shall begin the tong training! And my shopping list includes another misting bottle for tap water, night crawlers, and possibly another KK for Mr. Porkypants.

Any other food recommendations, or will night crawlers and dubia suffice?

The tap water must be treated with a de-chlorinating agent like Prime or Zoo Med ReptiSafe.

[imyourscar]

The tap water must be treated with a de-chlorinating agent like Prime or Zoo Med ReptiSafe.

We don't add chlorine to our well water, but I still treat with reptisafe to cover my ***

[GrifTheGreat]

We don't add chlorine to our well water, but I still treat with reptisafe to cover my ***

Yes you'd better. Well water is still not safe and many have lost frogs to assuming that just because its chlorine free that its ok not to treat it when in fact well water still contains heavy metal among other deposites that can eventually build up in the frog's system. You can use natural spring water if you want, but it must come from a real spring. It can't just be bottled water that is only purified because most of those still contain chlorine.

[DVirginiana]

I've had fish die from being in even treated well water. I guess it depends on the content of your water, but I was too paranoid to ever use it for my frog. Just bought several gallons of spring water at a time.