Frenchy is finally eating! Red-Eyed Tree Frog

[lnikkiy]

To clarify/expand my earlier comment to you:
Feeding in the tank (I find) helps pickier frogs get a good meal. In a few weeks or so, when you know your frenchy is heathy and eating, you may want to consider the bowl feeding method again.

I personally do a combination of both. My Ruby Eyed Tree frogs particularly will get extremely stressed if I attempt to bowl feed them, whereas my toads are perfectly happy eating an easy meal from a bowl.

If you do continue to feed from the tank (I imagine you will be able to tell what is best for your frog) make sure that there are not leftover crickets. I feed them in the evening, and then make sure there are none left in the morning. I also have my frogs on moss or water bottoms, so there is no chance of them ingesting substrate when they catch their food.

[MantidBro]

To clarify/expand my earlier comment to you:
Feeding in the tank (I find) helps pickier frogs get a good meal. In a few weeks or so, when you know your frenchy is heathy and eating, you may want to consider the bowl feeding method again.

I personally do a combination of both. My Ruby Eyed Tree frogs particularly will get extremely stressed if I attempt to bowl feed them, whereas my toads are perfectly happy eating an easy meal from a bowl.

If you do continue to feed from the tank (I imagine you will be able to tell what is best for your frog) make sure that there are not leftover crickets. I feed them in the evening, and then make sure there are none left in the morning. I also have my frogs on moss or water bottoms, so there is no chance of them ingesting substrate when they catch their food.

Tried the bowl feeding method again -- Frenchy's taking to it I switched quicker than I had expected to, because i did indeed see him gobbling up some substrate with a cricket! :/ its only coconut fiber so no wood chips or anything but still... That must be annoying.. I did end up seeing some substrate in his poop. Didnt seem to be hard to push out but i dont wanna risk anything bad happening. Im glad he understands how to work with the bowl feeding method! This method helps to keep the calcium/D3 on the crickets as well, when id been letting them roam, they would drag their bodies along the sticks and leaves, and even take a swim in the bowls, to try cleaning it off. They hadnt managed to get all of it off before he ate them but now they will get hardly any off because the glass bowl is so slippery, theres no friction to help take it off, plus its dry in there.

[DigitalPunk]

Awesome news! Our Reds will sit and stare where the bowl should be if we don't get it in the tank before the lights go out. They all just stare and wait, like they think they can will it into existence lol.

[MantidBro]

Awesome news! Our Reds will sit and stare where the bowl should be if we don't get it in the tank before the lights go out. They all just stare and wait, like they think they can will it into existence lol.

Lol thats hilarious. I put the bowl with the crickets in there before I shut the lights. Just before frenchy wakes up. So its already there when hes awake. He catches sight of them easily, even in such a big cage!