Pyxie behavior questions.

[NialR35]

Greetings!

For all you pyxie owners, are these things normal?

1) My pyxie does not really burrow all the time, unlike my ornate. There is enough substrate in the terrarium that should be enough to cover him head to toe so should I put some more just in case? Sometimes he just sits there and barely goes under there, less than half his body. Also do you guys normally "stir" the substrate weekly to mix it around to prevent the frog from sitting in the same dirty spot?

2) Is the bigger the water bowl the better for growing pixies to avoid toxing out? Considering they spend a lot in the water, I wonder if this would help.

3) In the last two days I've noticed at night he seems to go a bit crazy and I find the tank a bit messy in the morning, so I figured something might be bothering him. He's been eating well lately except for the last two days that he only ate 1 night crawler per day and his aggressiveness was not the usual and then refused to eat more BUT last night he ate two so it's going back to normal.

4) When I touch his sides it feels soft, not sure if jelly-like or liquid like but soft. Is this normal?

I have read before that young pyxies are VERY shy and nervous so well I added another plastic vine in his terrarium for more cover and maybe adding another inch of eco earth should help?

I'm currently using a medium zoo med water dish and have a large one laying around, I wonder if this will help too to provide a bigger water bowl for him even though he's around 2.5 ".

It seems like something has stressed him lately because sometimes I hear bumping into the glass so I'm trying to figure it out. Before I would turn out the lights at feeding time and he would come out and wait for it, the last two days he just stays there and I have to go to him to feed him.