Help with young leopord frog, please!

[Kurt]

Make sure the vials are alive. It has been my experience that most Petco's don't remove dead cultures from their shelves. I saw one Petco actually mark them down.

Coconut husk/ground shell is fine. I am of European heritage, I have eaten coconuts, love pina coladas. Coconuts are not native to Europe and neither a lot of other things I eat. So that whole argument that someting may be bad since it's foreign to leopard frogs, doesn't hold too much water to me.

The forest printouts should be fine as long as they are taped to the out side of the tank. Be careul not to get them wet if you printed them with your computer, the ink will run and it will look like C**p.

[Mattiez]

Thanks for the info, Kurt! I'll be sure you make sure they're moving. I'm happy you think the coco stuff is fine. When I get the vial, do I just try to shake some in? Or perhaps I should put some fruit in for them to congregate around?

[John]

Those vials usually don't have much in them so get one to feed and one to use to start a culture (at least). Let the flies go in the tank and make sure they can't escape for a couple of hours so the frog can eat them - fruit flies can crawl straight up glass and out through vented lids.

Coconut fibre is used with tons of frogs by lots of people with no ill effects.

[Kurt]

I do dust my fruit flies with vitamin/calcium powers. I do this by taking a funnel and placing it in a vial that already has the powder in it. It also helps if the powder is covering all the inside surfaces of this vial, this usually keeps them from climbing out right away. To add the fruit flies I shake the jar or vial of flies into the funnel with one hand and I shake the funnel/receiving vial with the other hand. After dusting, I give the flies to my frogs.
To culture flies you will need media mix, jar or vials, and something like excelsior for them to climb on. These items can all be purchased at Black Jungle, along with the flies themselves. Mix the media with boiled distilled water according to directions on the package, put the mixture in your jar(s) or vial (s), let cool then sprinkle baker's yeast on the media. Add some excelsior to the jars and then add the flies. Depending on what speices of fruit fly you use, it will take from ten to sixteen days before you begin to see results. Drosophila melanogaster, the smaller of the two commonly sold flies take less time to show results than does D. hydei. However, hydei is a larger fly than melanogaster.
To keep the flies in the enclosure with the frogs I use an enclosre that will allow me to place a paper towel in between the top and the rest of the cage. Critter Keepers are great for this, at least the ones that don't have vents on the sides are. The paper towel allows for ventilation, and even allows for the passing of water.
Any questions?

[Mattiez]

I got him the culture of flies at petco. It was extremely alive. When I got home from work he was still just sitting in the same corner he was in this morning. Is that semi normal for a little froglett? I've been misted him every a couple today that too much? Should I do it before I go to bed?

Anyway, i put a tiny piece of melon in his new tank and shook a bunch of fruitflies on it. He was looking at them, but I didn't see him actualy make a move for them. He's just still sitting elevated up on one of the fake ivy leaves now..

Does this sound normal?

[John]

Is all of his tail fully absorbed?

[Mattiez]

Is all of his tail fully absorbed?

I think so, here's a pic from his old container.

[John]

How long have you had him? He might be just nervous or unwilling to feed during the day - these are nocturnal animals.

[Kurt]

I got him the culture of flies at petco. It was extremely alive. When I got home from work he was still just sitting in the same corner he was in this morning. Is that semi normal for a little froglett?

If he didn't have errands to run, then, yeah, thats somewhat normal.

I've been misted him every a couple times today that too much? Should I do it before I go to bed?

A little. No, not tneeded at this point, mist tomorrow night before going to bed.

[John]

love pina coladas

Well if you like pina colladas, do you like getting caught in the rain?

[Kurt]

Well if you like pina colladas, do you like getting caught in the rain?

Yes, because that's a good time to look for frogs!