Is this Red Leg?

[Heatheranne]

Could you try some pinhead (tiny baby) crickets? If you do, try the glass bowl method...use a 1 1/2 to 3 inch sided bowl to put them in. They will learn to feed from the bowl. Remove any uneaten crickets daily to feed the crickets and then offer them to the frogs again. It's easier to keep track of how many are eaten.

Offer some fruit flues each night. Try not to add too many to the tank unless you see them eat a few so there aren't tons running around.

Do they ever soak in their water bowls by themselves?

[BlueKiwiOca]

Thanks, Lynn and Heather, for the info and PM

Lynn, I "rescued" them from an inept owner on a local online auction. They were originally used as educational tools at a kindergarten but sadly not very well cared for.
Heather, I can ring the pet shop/ BioSuppliers and see if they sell pinhead crickets, if they do, I'll order some and give the glass bowl method a whiz sounds a lot less stressful than fruit flies to be frank!

I actually feed them in a separate, smaller tank so I can get an idea of how much they're eating. Is this ok to do? It minimizes the tank cleaning I have to do lol.

I have occasionally seen them soaking themselves... occasionally mind you, so not very often. Do you think they're not hydrated enough?

[EmJay]

Heather, I can ring the pet shop/ BioSuppliers and see if they sell pinhead crickets, if they do, I'll order some and give the glass bowl method a whiz sounds a lot less stressful than fruit flies to be frank!

Bio-suppliers do "small" crickets and "baby" locusts, but you'd have to ring them for exact sizes, I think.

I have occasionally seen them soaking themselves... occasionally mind you, so not very often. Do you think they're not hydrated enough?

Bell frogs are usually quite aquatic. Mine spends most of her time in the water, and my outside frogs when I was little would hang out in the water underneath the lily pads, regularly swam to a depth of 30-40cm, and didn't spend a lot of time out on the rocks or plants.

Perhaps yours have just not naturally learned to swim/bathe yet, because they were originally kept with only a water bowl as babies? Bells usually like a good 8-10cm water depth, with 1:2 water-to-land ratio.

[BlueKiwiOca]

Bell frogs are usually quite aquatic. Mine spends most of her time in the water, and my outside frogs when I was little would hang out in the water underneath the lily pads, regularly swam to a depth of 30-40cm, and didn't spend a lot of time out on the rocks or plants.

Perhaps yours have just not naturally learned to swim/bathe yet, because they were originally kept with only a water bowl as babies? Bells usually like a good 8-10cm water depth, with 1:2 water-to-land ratio.

Are they? I've noticed my little Froakie likes swimming around more than the new frogs do... but even he doesn't swim a whole lot. Although if I put him in his "pool" he'll stay there and bather for a while.

As for the 8-10 cm depth and 1:2 water to land ratio, it looks like I have a bit of work to do... I have nothing like that amount in my current set-ups (maybe 1" depth and 1/4 of the tank in Froakie's tank, and just small water dish in the Exo-Terra with the newbies). Thanks for the advice

[BlueKiwiOca]

Update: The poor little guy still hasn't eaten. I'm not sure what's wrong with him, but he's certainly looking off colour; compare him to my other juveniles who are eating voraciously and jumping happily around the terrarium, brightly coloured.

He's still a muddy brown, no appetite... I think I'll give him another honey bath, because he might still be a bit bunged up. He doesn't have the fine body line that the rest of the frogs and Ned have (once his impaction was cleared), which suggests a little bloating. If I can get him to pass poo, I'll offer food again and maybe force feed... He hasn't eaten in a very long time and I'm getting concerned :/

Just thought I'd update (and bump lol)