My Owonake Flying Frogs

[Greenlove]

Sorry to bogart this thread a little, but how small is the right small for babys? I'm having some troubles with feeding a young one myself.

Well, my froglets are about 2 months old and they get 1/8 inch crickets and fruit flies. Newly morphed froglets need pinhead crickets (very small) crickets and fruit flies. The rule of thumb is to feed insects that are smaller than the width of their mouth. If your unsure, it's always better to go smaller than bigger. Hope this helps. Good luck.

[Rocko]

Yeah mine should be large enough for the 1/8 inch, but I was actually talking about enclosure. Currently the little guy is in a 10 gal, but definitely does not hunt down the crickets around the tank, in fact I've only ever seen it eat one cricket and that was because the cricket climbed over it.

[Greenlove]

Yeah mine should be large enough for the 1/8 inch, but I was actually talking about enclosure. Currently the little guy is in a 10 gal, but definitely does not hunt down the crickets around the tank, in fact I've only ever seen it eat one cricket and that was because the cricket climbed over it.

LOL. Sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking. I had one frogglet in a 15 gallon because he morphed much later than the others. That was too big to feed him in but we managed. When I fed him every night, I had to keep pushing the feeders toward him, then he would eat. But I was okay with doing it that way because then I knew EXACTLY how much he was eating. I always made sure he ate at least 5 crickets and 5 fruit flies before I shut off the lights. I always left a few feeders in the tank hoping they would make it back over to him later, 75% of the time they were eaten by morning. So, my suggestion is if you don't want to take the time and effort that I did, get a smaller tank (5 gallon) until he gets bigger and can hunt down the feeders or some people take their frogs out and feed them in a small feeder container and then when they are done put them back in their enclosure (I would not do this myself, as I would think it would cause the animal to be stressed). Does that help?

[Rocko]

Yes thank you, mine unfortunately does snatch up the extras while I sleep, so I think I may put it into a smaller enclosure.