Injured Eyed Wild Caught

[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.