Strange Behavior

[cjbage]

Just a few thoughts. What did you feed it? Also is it possible that there could be an electrical short going through the substrata. Wet wires can loose small amounts of juice. I have seen this happen in a few of my fishtanks and realized it when I noticed the fish getting all excited in weird ways when the heater would come on. Hope you get it figured out! Doug

Lets see he gets fed crickets right now, they come from a breeder not a petstore and they are given cricket chow premium mix along with the recipe mix from http://www.frogforum.net/food-feeder...cket-food.html

There are no wires going into the substrate at all, the hygrotherm probe is going into the small tank and is hanging free on the side for now about 1-2" above the substrate. the lighting is from Marineland and is an aquarium safe LED system and that cord is right at the top corner of the outer tank. The CHE / lamp is on the top screen, I bought a wall shelf so will most likely set it up to hang over the tank instead of sitting on top of the screen this weekend. The only other thing that is going into the tank is the food/liquid rated safe vinyl tubing attached to the humidifier I set up. It has distilled water in it and has been running for a while now with no strange behavior seen. the tank sits on a wheeled cart about 4 inches from the wall itself, I also checked to see if there were any leaks etc around the bottom of the main tank just in case and there wasn't.

he usually pops his head up out of the substrate at about 6pm EST and gets fed at about 8 after the lights go off on his tank so we will see then, hopefully he was just irritated at me being in the room more then usual since my husband has commandeered my living room desk and only have my desk in the bedroom left to use my computer at lol.

[Mentat]

Agree with DVirginiana and other than acting stressed, the frog appears OK. Sometimes they have a day off and eat less, etc. Keep observing it's eating and any other behavioral differences. The green water after frog soaked is strange and merits attention too. Have you tried feeding not dyed night crawlers? They are an excellent source of nutrients and most frogs will eat them .

[cjbage]

yes he wouldn't take them at the time, will try again, he seems to be incredibly picky about what is being fed to him and will overlook some crickets and go after others..size maybe idk I try to match as close as possible to the spacing between his eyes when i knock the crickets into the cup to either dust or just count and transport before giving them to him. this morning I looked into this soaking dish and the water looked clear again other then the dirt that was in there from him soaking, I am wondering if it may have been a light trick, my walls are a garrish shade of yellow thanks to the previous owner of this place and the lighting at the time in there was his blue moonlight lamp lol.

[DVirginiana]

Hm, I didn't see the part about the green water after soaking. That is kind of strange... It may just be a fluke, but keep an eye on him just to be sure.

[cjbage]

he was completely buried under the substrate, something he didn't do before, I lifted up the carrier to see where he was since he never popped out like usually does, he was clear at the bottom, under about 2" of substrate, gave me the ole stink eye look when I uncovered him to eat, he ate 9 out of the 10 crickets I put with him and is now back in the water dish again, I added fresh clear treated water its really dirty now so will have to clean it again. When I looked at the water under normal lightening ( well as normal as the lights in that room can get ) it looked dirty but clear not greenish, will keep an eye on it. I raised the RH to 80% it seems to maintain it about 1-3% difference most of the time. Will pick up some Canadian nightcrawlers when I go back out and will once again try and feed him those, cut up to his correct feeding size.

[WorldClassFrogCoddler]

Well if he was feeling bad he probably wouldn't have chowed down like that so I'm less worried. Maybe he got temporarily stressed out, and is feeling better now? On the other hand my frog is lazy even by my standards, but I've read some of these guys are active enough to climb up and out of their tanks by wedging their fat little selves in the corner and struggling hard, so maybe your frog was just trying to escape?

Hope he continues to show good signs. Good luck.

[cjbage]

Well whatever was going on with him the other night didn't happen last night other then spending an inordinately long time sitting in the water dish starting at me as I sat at my computer he was even still out of the substrate this morning at lights on and I was able to get a picture..not all that great because of the cell phone but still he looks ok, just wish I could get a bit more weight on him.