Strange Behavior

[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.

[Tankfull Tropicals]

cjbage: That sounds like good news. Must have had some indigestion. Would good old Garden worms fill him out? I feed them to my Tropical fish to ripen the females for spawning.

[cjbage]

I am not sure, I will be trying to feed him worms again here in a few days when I go out again, the first time he wouldn't eat them just kept backing away from the pieces of worms each time that section would reach out n touch his face, honestly before that he probably never seen a worm in his short little life, the petstore kept him in a tiny keeper in the same bin as a water dragon, the lady I got him from told me the ones that worked in the reptile area just tosses in a few cricket sprays the tank then leaves.

So crickets is all he had known, I am going to try Dubia again also, he didn't want those either but it may have been because they were so small, he seems to bypass even smallish crickets and goes for ones about the size of the spacing between his eyes so I have to keep scooping out the small ones and putting them in a container to hopefully get them larger for him.

I also have a package of Pac Man food coming from Samurai-Reptiles Japan to try, alot of people have had good sucess with that if their pac's take to it.

His appetite seems to be ok, last night he chowed down on 11 of the crickets I put in there lol so yeah he is eating and the crickets get a decent gutload what with the premium mix and the different things that the recipe I use for additional ingredients, funny thing is they don't seem to want to eat the lettuce and shredded carrots I put in there