Pin heads Drown in mist

[bshmerlie]

I got these two babies because I want to eventually breed my Red Eyes and I wanted to make sure I could handle raising babies that were so tiny. Well, I never thought of drowning so many crickets. 5-10 crickets die for every one that is eaten if not more. I do have a small shallow cricket bowl but as soon as a wet froglet jumps in to grab a single cricket the rest of the crickets drown. Then of course, he chooses to sit in there with the crickets. So I let some crickets run around the paper towel then they go under it. Like I said before the crickets are already slow from being dusted...then add wet frog and mist and they're toast. I can't imagine having 100 wet baby frogs running around...how many crickets would I need to add everynight? What are the breeders doing to avoid this problem?

[ryangreenway]

I would resort to smaller food items such as fruit flies, probably heidei, and bean beetles, maybe rice flour beetle larvae.

[charlamanda]

I would resort to smaller food items such as fruit flies, probably heidei, and bean beetles, maybe rice flour beetle larvae.

Yeah, I agree go with the ff or what Ryan has mentioned. They climb around and are rarely stepped on (I loose several crickets this way too), but the ff too will drown if you have any water droplets or a water bowl. In fact I had to remove the water bowl because it was like a mass ff exodus into the water bowl. If you have the frog in a small tank with the pt bottom and a top, like plexiglass, so the ff can't get out, you rarely need to mist because it keeps the humidity in. I made a hole in the plexiglass top, stuck a straw through the hole and attached a funnel for vetalation. Very few of the ff found their way out and I'd turn a small fan on, occasionally, directly into the funnel to force air in. Every few days I'd check the ff count and frogs, open the lid, clean out the tank and let the frogs go for a romp in the plants on my deck. I did this while they were still very small and now I've moved them to the 10 gal and have been taking them out into another container to feed them their ff's and crickets as well as leaving the cricket bowl lined with a dry pt, only on the bottom so they don't drown, in the tank .
It took a lot of trial and error before I found this to be the best way and my froglets thrived, so I must have done something right.LOL

[charlamanda]

I had another thought...only put a few crickets in the bowl at a time, line the bottom of the cricket bowl with a dry pt, so they don't drown, and when he/she is in the bowl eating keep adding a few crickets at a time. At that size, which is basically the size 3 of my small ones are now, they only eat between 1 and 5 1/4" or less crickets in a day, but can eat dozens of ff's. Try only putting in 5-10 crickets daily or 3-5 in am and 3-5 in in the pm. Maybe this will help. Best of luck I know it's really frustrating.
Here are a few pics of Baby when I first took him/her in and Baby now with Mr./Miss Hoppy. They are still very small, but doing very well.