Quote Originally Posted by kittiekuddles View Post
Get a piece of glass for the top...oh but what kind of a tank is this? a basic 10 gallon glass? or one of those repti cages? If its a standard 10g get a glass lid and just place that over your screened lid (if thats what you have)
i would imagine the heat lamps are drying things up quickly, you might be better of with a 75 or 100 watt standard bulb over a glass lid (with some space in between so its not a fire hazard)
id ditch the heating pad
whats the temp in your room? keep his enclosure away from the window, could cause drafts.
lastly, id kinda leave him alone, you might be bugging him too much, dont pick him up or touch him, and dont feed him by hand, just dump the crickets in their and let him do his thing.
their not an exciting pet, they dont do much..sleeping is what they do best i think lol
he may just be a happy brown. ive seen big chunky healthy frogs on youtube and a few were brown sitting right next to their tank mates which were green..go figure
ok wait, is that him in your avatar? hes obese lol...hes adorable and looks healthy, i wouldnt worry about him..hes probably so full and exhausted from over eating. you feed him daily? maybe just twice a week is sufficient
His tank is a standard 10g with a screen top. I have one 50w day light that I keep on until 6.30pm and turn back on at 6.30am and a 50w infrared light that stays on all the time. I only have the heating pad on (it's attached to the side, not the bottom, it kept falling off :/) at night when it's especially cold.

The temp in my room usually stays between 65 and 75 degrees in the winter. I have a lot of heating problems in this room because of it's close proximity to the neighbors (I only get a slight breeze in the summer and rain slants in through the screen in the winter, and in California the weather is insane sometimes, hot AND cold.) His viv is across the room from the window and high up on top of my entertainment center (principle of rising heat).

Yeah I know I've been paying him way too much attention, my bad. >>; I've just read so many horror stories online about people buying pets from chain stores only to have them pass away, and I really don't want it to happen to me. This is the first time I've had a pet that I'm solely responsible for so I want to make sure I treat him well, but I suppose I'm being paranoid. I caved in and covered the front of the cage with a towel so he can't see me anymore and I can't see him, but I do check on him through the side every once and a while to see him sleeping like a log. :/

Usually I do just dump the crickets in his viv and let him go, but I do watch to make sure he doesn't choke (some of the are SO huge I get freaked out. ><) but I have to remove his hiding spot and the stone bridge because the crickets usually flock their and get to a place where he can't catch them and he forgets they're there.

Yes that is my tubby little Bruce. ; I brought him at the pet store that size and girl told me she was feeding him 5-8 crickets DAILY. I knew this was WAAY too much, the girl obviously didn't know what she was doing. >> But since I have cut it down to three crickets every two days. Do you think that's still too often for him to begin loosing weight? I don't want it to impede his climbing anymore than it already does. The one time I saw him climb, he attached himself to the glass but slowly slid down it until his butt was resting on the ground. Poor little fatty. Maybe once he looses some pounds he'll be more active? I think that's the general rule when it comes with frogs AND humans. XD

Thank you SO much for the suggestions, I'll try to find a glass screen for the tank lid (hopefully that doesn't make it too much hotter in there) and maybe feed him less? Is 3 crickets every 2 days too much?