Grey Tree Frog's New Habit. Is This Normal?

[Tubby0512]

My Grey Tree Frog is 8 months old and he has a new habit. He drown his crickets before he eats them. I will drop a medium cricket in his tank and he will grab in and carry the cricket to his pool and drown it. Then he eats it. I always feed him medium crickets and he just started to drown them. If I give him a dead cricket he will not eat. He will only eat alive crickets, flies, grasshoppers, etc.. For some reason he drowns them than eats them. Oh almost for got he only drowns the crickets. Is this normal?

[Sunshine]

LOL! That is too funny! I don't think I would worry about it.

[Tubby0512]

Okay thanks. I'm not sure why he does it. But I feel really bad for them. He would hold the crickets under water until they stop moving and shove them in his mouth. Maybe its because the crickets fight back? The flies and grasshoppers would stay perfectly still for him while he shoves them in his mouth but not the crickets, they fight back.

[Sunshine]

Ahhh! I bet that's why! Where do you get the grasshoppers? just from outside?

[Meefloaf]

please get a video aha what odd behaviour

[tglynn]

My water dragons will do this. Haven't seen it in frogs, myself.

[Tubby0512]

Yes, Since I get in in the wild as an egg from my backyard. I feed him baby grasshoppers, flies(that are inside on my window), and crickets that I get outside. Well I can't get a video of this behavior because everytime I try to get a picture of him or a video when he is doing something cute. He ALWAYS stops!!!

[exasperatus2002]

Hmmm...sure its not part racoon & is cleaning its food off before it eats? Or it just needs a little something to wash it down? lol Sorry. Never heard of a frog doing that before. I used to have a grey tree frog. One of my first frogs when I lived at home. Then found out it was male as it kept my mom up calling. That was the shortest I ever kept a frog.

[Tubby0512]

I have no idea what he is doing. He just started doing it and I thought it was weird. He doesn't do that to the grasshoppers or flies. Just the crickets.