Quote Originally Posted by pacsack View Post
First off no poo in the enclosure doesn't necessarily mean impaction. It could mean a number of things from just not really much in his system to poo out to you just cant find it. Mice are not on the cornuta's natural menu but seeing as your frog is WC and lean I would most definitely buy a small feeder mouse and put it in there and let your frog do what it does best. I would stress trying this before attempting to force feed. For some, the only reason why they have to force feed their WC frog is because they started doing it in the first place out of impatience and in doing so created a self caused stress cycle. In other words the reason why its not eating is because its being force fed! a bit ironic huh? You will be surprised how well these guys respond to an active prey item at the right time. I would put prey item in at night, also something else to consider is possibly a mixed up sleep cycle, your nocturnal frog could be acting diurnal which is not good but should hopefully correct itself. I am not sure on this but just a speculation, since your frog is wild caught from surinam or wherever it prospectively came from it is possible that transitioning from its timezone to yours could have thrown its sleep cycle off. Again I'm not sure about frogs but I know my sleep cycle gets pretty mixed up when traveling through timezones! Also, be sure you get a SMALL mouse and watch tentatively while its in the frogs enclosure the mouse will not predate upon the frog but mice can and will defend themselves at which point you may need to step in and prevent the mouse from biting, personally, the few times I have fed mice I have never had this problem but that does not mean it cant happen.
well as far as i know this frog was in a shop for the better part of 6 months, so it was probably under fluros on par with the shops operating hours, since its been in my home its been next to a window getting 12 hours of natural lighting a day with a towel thrown over the top of the enclosure covering its front and sides, ive barely disturbed the frog outside of offering worms in the morning and offering again before i go to bed, i have been keeping one large cricket in the enclosure overnight, and taking it out every morning when offering worms, as of this morning i have introduced 5 crickets into its home and am going to leave them there to stay, i also plan on not offering any other food that way im staying out of the enclosure completely, if crickets dont start dissapearing over the next two nights , ill offer a small mouse, not sure how well shell take to that considering shes showing no interest in the small aquatic frog that now resides in her water hole, i just introduced the aquatic frog after the warm bath and am hoping either that or some crickets will be missing in the morning