Adopted a Tree Frog, Got Some Q's

[Jolenels]

We unfortunately do not have a vet who deals with these type of frogs. I'm not even sure where they bought it from as no where in town even carries them! Our local reptile specialty shop said that they are considered so exotic that it's a lot of work to get them in. He is looking in to seeing if he can locate a grown female for us as the only supplier he knows of would have babies. I can get white eyed tree frogs and up until last month dart frogs (they were just named illegal) and a few other species, but not red eyed tree frogs. I have a picture of how dark he went but when I try to upload it it says format not supported, and I don't know how to change photo formats, or else I would show you guys the original colour versus the stressed colour. Can you gut load with vitamins? I feed him before I turn the light off for the night but he likes to stalk his food for quite some time so by the time he actually eats the cricket and stops looming over it all the powder is gone. It's just a waste. I do gut load with carrots. Can I douse the carrots in the powder? It is going to take us a few weeks to set up the larger enclosure. Unfortunately we hadn't expected the extra cost of a frog and with the economy how it is the mortgage has to come first! We should be able to have him in a new tank within a month at the most though, hopefully sooner!

[irThumper]

Dart frogs are illegal up there?? Dang...

Format not supported... hmm, I would make a post about that here: Forum Questions & Workings

Well there is a calcium spray, which should take care of the cal problem, but I don't believe it has D3 in it... I would go ahead and sprinkle Reptocal with Cal/D3 on some cricket food, or an orange slice, about 12 hours before you feed them to him. On another day of the week I'd do the same with vitamin powder. Feeding fresh vegies that are high in vits to the crickets can help too... carrots, yam, sweet potato & kale are all good. My crickets love original Cheerios, and I gut load them on Fluker's dry high calcium cricket chow.