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Hello all,

First a little background. New the the forum, and new to frog keeping (but not herp keeping - Also got a Rhino Iguana, Frilled Lizard, and Bearded Dragon). I found a few care sheets recommended by several people on this forum (sometimes conflicting information), by I am following this one exactly:
Amphibian Care >> Amazon Milk Frog (Trachycephalus resinifictrix) Care

During the day, the temps can be between 78-85, and at night/in the morning they are around 72-78. I do not heat the vivarium with anything besides the ambient temperature in the reptile room, which then is the same temps mentioned before. A 13 watt compact florecent non-uv full spectrum bulb is on a twelve hour light cycle during the day. Humidity stays between 70-80, with morning and nightly mistings. I have her in a 18x18x24 Exo Terra Congo Kit, with an added sand blasted grape vine, coco fiber soil, large water dish, and a magnetic rock deco ledge. Three sides of the viv are covered.

For the first night I got her, I had her in a 20 gallon long aquarium with basically the above conditions, but I wanted to get her something taller being a tree frog and all. That night, I went to dinner for 2 hours and she managed to escape through a hole in the top of the screen that was meant for a fogger hose (past reptile). In a panic, I gave her a bath to get off any dust or anything that might have been on her and put her back in the 20 gallon with the hole covered. The next day is when I got the new setup and moved her in.

So now it's wednesday night, got her saturday evening, and she hasn't eaten yet. She did poop once yesterday though, so that means that she did eat recently with the vendor I got her at. I have tried tong feeding wax worms and crickets, and let the wax worm crawl around in front of her supervised to no avail. Tonight, I am trying to leave a small 1 1/2 inch tall plastic cup the wax worms came in with a worm and a few crickets with the back legs pinched off so they cant get out in there. What worries me is that she has been on the magnetic ledge these past three days, moving around a little up there, but I have yet to see her off of it. During the day she has her eyes closed sleeping, and at night they are open and she perks up a bit whenever I mist. I have also not handled her since the bath the first day I had her.

This covers basically everything I have done since getting her. Is there anything else anyone has tried for fussy eaters? I assume she is just stressed, but I'm not sure what I can do to ease that. Thanks in advance.
Hi
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You have gotten 2 good responses here!
I agree as well--- it needs some peace and quiet.
Keep an eye out for any minor skin abrasions.

Cover three sides of the enclosure/ continue to feed well, as mentioned, feed smaller dusted crickets.
You can put some of the crickets into a clear class bowl ( 3" ) side.
The crickets cannot climb out.
You don't have to remove the legs off of a cricket........ the cricket should simply be the appropriate size.
Go smaller if in doubt. ie I keep red eyed and black eyed tree frogs --- I feed mine 'small" crickets only.
Put some of the crickets on the substrate --- in case he is not accustomed to bowl feeding.
LOTS of small crickets running around in a glass bowl -- will get his attention !!!!
May I respectfully suggest holding off on the meal worms as they can cause digestive issues; you simply don't want two things going on at the same time.

Keep us posted !
Lynn