He ignores the crickets and backs away and tries to bury himself when he sees the night crawlers.
It's been 2 days since I've tried feeding him and I tried again today and he still pushes it away with his hands.
He hasn't eaten since I got him 8 days ago.
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Have you tried offering the crickets in a smaller enclosure outside of his tank? Are you feeding him at night after you turn his lights off?
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Yeah give it a try after light out, I try to feed mine at 11 every night and night he is really hungry he comes out of his burrow around 10:30 and waits for me to pick him up. I kinda lucked out with mine though, he was taking worms off the tongs his first night home, and calmed down when it came time for me to pick him up after a week
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don't try to feed him in separate enclosure, you changed your enclosure yesterday, so it is a new environment for the baby now, let him be, don't handle, offer food in his home after the lights are off and give him time, he needs to figure out that he is safe. 8 days off food is not good for a baby, but anyway do not to stress him out, i would just throw a few crickets in a tank without back legs, but try to gently lift up the lid without moving the tank. no need to panic yet.
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You're causing unnecessary stress by removing him to feed. Once he is used to his actual home just feed him there. He will not become acclimated if you keep moving him around.
He still won't eat, I've tried everything, is there a possibility he's impacted? The people at petsmart had him in a cage of sphagnum moss.
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Either that or could he really be young enough that he recently absorbed his tail and would not be hungry?
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ok, breath in and breath outrepeat 10 times.... don't panic. 2 days ago you changed the cage, right? and today you took him out to take a pic? it is right?
DO NOT touch him at all, leave him alone, ok? it takes up for a week for some frogs to get over the stress of having new environment. IT is very important not to disturb him.
have you tried to throw in some crickets without back legs in his cage at night?
the frog seems very healthy, if it is impacted you would feel a limp on a left side.
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He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate! He ate!
So I left him alone for about 24hrs now, and I went to Petsmart to tell them about our little situation. They told us to try mealworms, but I do know that mealworms are not to be used for a staple diet. But once I dropped one in front of his face he snatched it right up.
Has anyone else had problems with mealworms?
I just read on another thread that the mealworms might try to eat through his stomach or is the possibility of that low?
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mealworms are not to be used at allthey are very bad food choice for a frog, very high chitin content, that can't be digested by a frog, thus a very high risk of impaction. of course one mealworm won't kill a frog, but you better choose different food options - nightcrawlers and crickets at this point, smaller roaches, pac food is good but in your case he better be not stressed out to start tong training. so now you need to leave him alone again and offer crickets without back legs, i would do 3 weeks crickets for his size.
I imagine you jumping up and down after he ate :lol: you are on a right road.
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I'm switching to crickets for the rest of his life, I know that mealworms are a bad idea but he wouldn't touch the crickets. They were very small mealworms too.
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you can try something like small butter worm or small hornworm that would look like a mealworm, but I'm sure once he is ok with surroundings he'll eat anything that moves, at this age they don't have bad habits![]()
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In the future, there's no need to panic about not eating unless the frog looks like it is losing weight or acting sick.They can seriously alter their metabolisms, you'd be surprised how long they can go without food. Especially with babies though it's easy to get worried.
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