Tomato frog help

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Made some comments inside the quote. To help your frog more, please answer questions from this list to best knowledge.

1. Size of enclosure
2. # of inhabitants - specifically other frogs and size differences
3. Humidity
4. Temperature
5. Water - type - for both misting and soaking dish
6. Materials used for substrate
7. Enclosure set up i.e. plants (live or artificial), wood, bark and other materials.
- How were things prepared prior to being put into the viv.
8. Main food source
9. Vitamins and calcium? (how often)
10. Lighting
11. What is being used to maintain the temperature of the enclosure
12. When is the last time he/she ate
13. Have you found poop lately
14. A pic would be helpful including frog and enclosure (any including cell phone pic is fine)
15. How old is the frog
16. How long have you owned him/her
17. Is the frog wild caught or captive bred
18. Frog food- how often and if it is diverse, what other feeders are used as treats
19. How often the frog is handled
20. Is the enclosure kept in a high or low traffic area
21. Describe enclosure maintenance (water changes, cleaning, etc)

by Lynn(Flybyferns) and GrifTheGreat.

Maybe we are missing something else and this will help to figure it out. Good luck !

Alright, here we go:

1. Size of enclosure
I'm pretty sure it's 29 gallon, the dimensions are 24"x15"x21".

2. # of inhabitants - specifically other frogs and size differences
Just Franz

3. Humidity
80% and up

4. Temperature
This varies, but it tends to fall in the 75 - 80 range, although I have seen it go into the low 80's.

5. Water - type - for both misting and soaking dish
I use distilled water in a mistking to avoid mineral build-up and to make my nozzle last longer. In his water dish, I use regular tap water treated with a dechlorinator.

6. Materials used for substrate
All coco fiber, leca for drainage layer.

7. Enclosure set up i.e. plants (live or artificial), wood, bark and other materials.
I have three pothos plants (one's really small), a dracaena, and a pink-veined fittonia. There is a piece of cork bark used to create a little hill in the back of the tank.

8. Main food source
Crickets, although I am starting a dubia roach colony and have been guilty a feeding a few off of it when I really shouldn't be yet.

9. Vitamins and calcium? (how often)
I usually dust his food when I feed him, which is every other day or every other, other day if for some reason I missed feeding him. I just recently realized that what I have been dusting with is only calcium, and I thought it was also a multivitamin, so I'll have to get on that.

10. Lighting
I have a fluorescent UVB set up, I think it's a T12? I also use an exoterra tubular daylight bulb, I believe 40 or 60 watts. The exoterra is primarily for heat. Although the uvb is for plants, there isn't a ton of natural light in my room and I'd like to be able to better see him.

11. What is being used to maintain the temperature of the enclosure
Like I said above, I use primarily the exoterra for heat. As a secondary source, I have a water heater buried in the leca. Heating was really a problem back home in Michigan, but I'm in South Carolina temporarily, so I've been looking to adjust how I heat accordingly.

12. When is the last time he/she ate
He scarfed down a dubia last night.

13. Have you found poop lately
I have, but I will admit that I am not very vigilant about it. I tend to clean it up when I see it, but this is a bad strategy because he camps out in under the plants and digs down slightly, so I'm not likely to see it.

14. A pic would be helpful including frog and enclosure (any including cell phone pic is fine)


15. How old is the frog
The guy I bought him from said he was two years old at the time.

16. How long have you owned him/her
Since last July.

17. Is the frog wild caught or captive bred
As far as I know, captive bred.

18. Frog food- how often and if it is diverse, what other feeders are used as treats
See 9. I don't really feed him treats. I tried to with some red worms, but they were too slick and he couldn't get ahold of them. Then apparently he got spooked by how they moved and wouldn't touch them.

19. How often the frog is handled
Very rarely, only when I am changing locations. This happens every few months because I bounce between home, work, and school in different states.

20. Is the enclosure kept in a high or low traffic area
In my bedroom, which is low traffic.

21. Describe enclosure maintenance (water changes, cleaning, etc)
I changed the water in his dish when it gets low or dirty, and I pick up poo as I see it.

So I feel like there are some things I can improve on after answering those questions. I did end up putting a wallpaper on the tank on the rear and right-hand sides, but not the left side.