Handfeed White tree frogs everyday?

[elly]

You don't have to feed them every day, (not saying that's what you're doing- I can't tell.) But it's better for them to have a day or two between feedings to digest.

you could try conditioning them to wake up earlier by waking them up early in the evening and offering them crickets then. Mine usually wake up around 6pm because that's when I feed them.

[Ava Golden]

You don't have to feed them every day, (not saying that's what you're doing- I can't tell.) But it's better for them to have a day or two between feedings to digest.

you could try conditioning them to wake up earlier by waking them up early in the evening and offering them crickets then. Mine usually wake up around 6pm because that's when I feed them.

I feed them every other day but sometimes every day since they take a long time between each cricket, I sometimes give them only 2 or 3 crickets per session because after that, they refuse to eat more, except if I insist a lot or wait couples if minutes then try again.

[HerpetologyBarbie]

I personally play music and mist them to wake them up. I feed my other reptiles and come back when they're all up and about. I tweezer feed too every third day and as much as they will eat.

You could try putting them in a tub each with holes in it, chucking some crickets in there with your frogs and check in on them to make sure they're hunting and eating a satisfactory amount. That way you can do other things in the mean time before putting them back in their enclosure before bed.

[Ava Golden]

I personally play music and mist them to wake them up. I feed my other reptiles and come back when they're all up and about. I tweezer feed too every third day and as much as they will eat.

You could try putting them in a tub each with holes in it, chucking some crickets in there with your frogs and check in on them to make sure they're hunting and eating a satisfactory amount. That way you can do other things in the mean time before putting them back in their enclosure before bed.

Thank you,

haha I find funny that you spray them to wake them a little bit! Us humans would sure not love that!

putting them separately in a small empty terrarium is a good idea, I already tried it once when one of my wtf wasn't feeling well, but it wasn't a success. I will maybe try again but I also would like to try again the bowl feed

[irThumper]

Do you have them on a 12/12 lighting schedule? You could try accustoming them to an earlier on/off schedule. My guys are lights on 7 am and off 7 pm and everyone is usually awake and fed by 9 pm. I hand feed, bowl feed and loose feed, depending on the individual frogs and the tank set up. My newest youngest pair of white's tree frogs, Bok and Choi, actually wake up about an hour or so before the lights go out, so I go ahead and feed them when they are awake... Bok likes to chase his crix around the cage, so I toss his in loose. Choi, on the other hand, prefers to go eat his out of the bowl, and is always waiting on the rim for me to dump them in. Bok & Choi are on paper towel substrate with artificial plants, a pvc hide, a textured round glass cricket bowl, water dish, and a square glass "cave" in a (for now) 12"x12"x18" Exo-Terra. My Amazon Milk frogs used to bowl feed, but they have become so spoiled they refuse to eat that way most of the time (sometimes they still do) and insist I hand feed them each cricket! They are on reptile carpet (I just rinse it in hot water, qive it a quick dip in 10% bleach solution, then soak the heck out of it in extra dechlored water every time it's cleaned) and have pvc hides, a square glass cave, a big glass casserole dish "pond", fake plants, and an upended 2.5 gallon tank with a water dish on top in a 18"x24"x24" Exo-Terra. My other guys have similar set ups. Little Jelly Bean eats what I throw in front of him, and if it gets away he hunts it down (he's on paper towels), Lucy prefers her crickets handed to her (though she will bowl feed), Shirley and Martha both hand feed or loose feed (they have outgrown their cricket bowl) but Shirley has pre-existing digestive issues from a past coccidiosis infection, so if she eats too many crickets, or they are too large, she will irritate her gut and she will pass bloody mucousy stool (she was tested clear of parasites). I need to try to limit her crickets and hand feed them to her, while Martha prefers to hunt hers down and gobble them up, so dinner time can be the challenge with the two of them in the same tank (they are on paper towels too). My other problem child is Honey-Lime... he also suffers from digestive issues due to coccidiosis (got him and Shirley together), and he has to be compelled to eat or he won't touch anything. Found this out after his tank companion, Lucy, looked like she was ready to explode while Honey kept getting thinner-- she was eating everything! So Honey is taken out and made to eat directly by hand. He refuses to eat more than 1 cricket at a time (and I have to generally take the hind legs off) every other day or two, so I have to make sure the crickets are gut loaded on "Super food", which I mixed up from Fluker's dry hi cal cricket chow, Waggoner's color free fish flakes, Reptoboost, and Zoomed PacMan food.