tiger monkey legged tree frog sick

[optimalcr]

Still having some slight issues with my wonderful "Thor". I have since given him a new enclosure that is a 10 gallon tank. He has a 50watt day lamp/ basking lamp. His temp maintains about 84 degrees. He still bathes in his water dish. I have been putting 3 calcium coated crickets and 2 mealworms in a feeder dish and wake up the next morning with 3 crickets and 2 meal worms. Seems he isnt eating at all. I have substrate on th bottom of his.some nights he will eat 2 of the crickets but that is like once a week. I have put him in isolation for about 8 hours. (Isolation meaning ina kritter keeper that was him two bowls of water and 20 small crickets and 10 mealworms recommended by vet) and he ate about 5 crickets and no meal worms. The vet says he needs mealworms but he will not eat them. He is the only frog in his tank and always has been by himself. I need help. My son loves this frog and he just doesnt look like he is going to make it...


also I use fake plants in his enclosure and I leave his lamp on all night... should I shut it off and get real plants?

[Java]

Do you have any pictures of his enclosure?

Also, I'm not sure where the vet gets that he should be eating mealworms.. they're not any better than crickets, honestly. My girls won't touch them and they're fine and happy. Try pinhead crickets instead of small and don't put as many in with him. It gets overwhelming and I've seen my enormous Cuban actually run away when I accidently spill a bunch in (crickets crawl all over frogs when they have the chance.) During feeding time, put them and him in a separate enclosure where there's no soil, plants, etc to get in the way.

Eating once a week actually isn't all that uncommon, though, since in the wild it's harder to find food sometimes. If he doesn't appear to be skin and bones, then he should be okay food wise.

I will say that from you picture of the enclosure you may need more climbing structures. And if you're still using plastic, I hope you're cleaning them before you put them in (cleaning as in rinsing with purified/safe water.) Leaving them under a heat lamp, plastic can actually sweat.. and I know they say they're safe for frogs but as stated in the last post- they're plastic. He's a little guy in a plastic forest. Your temperature inside should also be around 76 to 78 degrees with moderate humidity. I say go no higher than 84. If you're using a heat lamp that's lighted, make sure you have a night version as they do need to know when it's day and night (everything is way too artificial these days.)

Introduce some frog safe moss in there. Maybe some frog safe wood (I actually don't recommend cork since it's get a fungus/mold..) As for the heat, leave it on but give him plenty of chances to move away from it and hide. Frogs can overheat and the heat will make them lose bodily humidity. Might as well mist a few times a day, too. Just him mostly.

Now, you mentioned your son.. how often is he holding Thor? Treefrogs don't like to be held often or for long periods of time. Once or twice a week is okay. But, make sure hands are washed before and after and your hands are damp. Frog skin is sensitive the more exotic and smaller you go.

Keep us updated!

[optimalcr]

I hate to report that my wonderful Thor passed away last night. My son doesnt know yet but we are going to tell him. And to answer the holding question no my son never held him. I only held hin to move him from enclosure to enclosure for cleaning once a week.

the putting a bunch of crickets in with him was for isolation because he went almost 2 weeks without eating... we plan on getting another on and really want to know where to get them. We bought our last one from a private owned pet store and had been looking at him when we bought him for like 5 months.

Please if anyone has a good care sheet for them I would like it.

[StickyFrogfeet]

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