Injured Eyed Wild Caught

[BlueKiwiOca]

Unrelated, but he's getting a bigger tank this week with gravel substrate and water plants c:

PLEASE don't use gravel D: The reason most frog-keepers use coco-fiber is because if it's ingested, it can be passed easily enough.
If he's been eating the substrate, putting in gravel instead is a recipe for disaster. He'll find it very difficult to pass any gravel pieces he ingests, and may end up dying of impaction. Stick with the coco-fiber, it's tried and true, and above all, safe.

As for the species not eating during breeding season, where did you get that information? Most frogs will still continue to eat, albeit with decreased appetites.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

If you want to use gravel in the water use large gravel that can not fit in it's mouth.
and if you must use smaller gravel silicone it to a plexi glass sheet.
I know coco fiber and water doesn't look good and will clog most filters.

[iheartfrogs]

People in Newfoundland speak... differently. We are like the Ireland of Canada. Maybe that's why when I say gravel people think the small colorful pet store rocks and I think of the stones in my driveway?

I can assure you all that I'm not about to replace a substrate he's capable of eating with a more dangerous to ingest substrate that he would also be capable of eating.

[BlueKiwiOca]

I guess if you're intent on replacing the perfectly good coco-fiber with stones/gravel, just make sure the pieces are bigger than his head and not sharp at all... we don't want any injuries. But I'm sure you already knew that.

[badkelpie]

My frogs (2 green tree frogs, 2 pacific chorus frogs, 3 fire bellied toads) can't resist flying insects. See if you can catch a moth or 2 to toss in there. Might just motivate him to eat on his own.

[iheartfrogs]

I guess if you're intent on replacing the perfectly good coco-fiber with stones/gravel, just make sure the pieces are bigger than his head and not sharp at all... we don't want any injuries. But I'm sure you already knew that.

It is not "perfectly good" if it is undesirable to me that he is eating it.

I don't believe everything I find on Google. However, if I read one post that says something is fine, and another that says something harmful, as a mother I would be inclined to stay on the safe side.

PacMan Dies from coconut fiber substrate [Archive] - Arachnoboards

He also scratches his bad eye when there is coco fiber or duck week in the water, and some of those fibers are longer than his little body.

[iheartfrogs]

PLEASE don't use gravel D: The reason most frog-keepers use coco-fiber is because if it's ingested, it can be passed easily enough.
If he's been eating the substrate, putting in gravel instead is a recipe for disaster. He'll find it very difficult to pass any gravel pieces he ingests, and may end up dying of impaction. Stick with the coco-fiber, it's tried and true, and above all, safe.

As for the species not eating during breeding season, where did you get that information? Most frogs will still continue to eat, albeit with decreased appetites.

Derp.

By gravel I mean stones, which is also gravel.

As for the image, it has the name of the website right on it.

Hope that helps.

& PS Please keep in mind that they are referring to wild frogs and not pet store frogs.