My gray tree frog doesn't trust me anymore!

[elly]

I fed one of my white's a red wriggler worm once and he never forgave me. Since then I've had to bowl-feed or put the crickets on his ledge.

[Dace]

I fed one of my white's a red wriggler worm once and he never forgave me. Since then I've had to bowl-feed or put the crickets on his ledge.

That's depressing. I don't know what I was thinking. I guess he may never eat out of my hand again.
no I have not tried crickets. Don't have any. I'll bet he would eat them if I did, though.
i know you people aren't big fans of feeding wild insects, but I've done it for years and my frogs are fine. No pesticides or fertilizers around here. And where are you going to get more nutrition and variety? I know my bugs pretty well and only feed species I know to be safe.
I'm gonna try putting him in a small Bare Kritter keeper for a few hours till he's calm, then throw in a bunch of really tiny roaches. Maybe he won't recognize them.

[elly]

Well he might. My frog started out skittish and not used to people ( so the worm didn't help. Yours may be more tame.

Parasites are a problem since wild crickets and grasshoppers are especially known to be carriers. However if your frog is a native wild-caught species, it may already have parasites so more might not be a problem. Or you might be a bug expert and able to find ones that don't carry large parasite loads. I don't know.

[Dace]

It was a complete failure. He wanted nothing to do with the roaches. Yet I show him a video and he goes nuts trying to catch the digital ant. This is actually really interesting though because it shows me that frogs are more aware than I thought. I used to think they attack anything that moves and spit it out if it's nasty, but apparently he can recognize species.

[Dace]

Ok... I believe he ate 2 crickets tonight. unless I'm really bad at counting.

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

That's good! At least he ate something!

[Dace]

Well, tonight he attacked his crickets quite viciously! He's almost back to his old self.

[Dace]

One thing I left out is that he has occasionally been acting restless at the front of the tank- trying to push his way through the glass and pacing back and forth. Which is what he's doing right now. When he does it, he ignores food. The enclosure is a 10 gallon tank with two frogs but they're both juveniles. That kind of worries me and I don't know if it started before or after the radish roach incident because I wasn't watching him so closely then. Any idea what might be causing this?