RETF feeding help plz

[Z3r0San1ty]

Hi Friday I purchased a Red-Eyed tree Frog and created a terrarium that is filled with moss, plastic plants a water bowl, and a tree log, nothing to fancy yet still
Trying to work in a mister or waterfall soon but my issue right now is for the past few days I have not gotten him to eat a cricket yet, they are gut loaded from a petshop but it seems everytime he wakes up I try to hand feed him a cricket he does not want to eat him and just goes right back to sleep, I've tried leaving a red light on that's suppose to help
Me view him but I feel the light is being too
Much heat for him for why he keeps going back
To sleep so I turn off the lights and sleep it off with 2 crickets in the tank and I wake up
To see he hasn't touched a single cricket, I'm worried about him for eating sake, I've tried leaving mealworms in a bowl Overnight and he hasn't
touched them either so any advice would be very helpful on what to do to get
him to eat the live crickets thanks in advance

[Kisa]

When you first bring a new frog home it may take them a few days to adjust and get used to their surroundings. Lots of frogs bought from chain or other types of pet shops and not directly from a breeder will have trouble eating at first, especially if the animal is wild caught.

Just leave him alone for a few days, offer him crickets in the viv, not in your hand or on tweezers, and see if he goers for them then. There's no need to panic if you've only had the frog a few days, just sit back and try to relax, he'll come around eventually if you just try and leave him alone. He's probably frightened of you, he needs a few weeks to know you're not a predator.

[Leefrogs]

Make sure your crickets aren't too big. Other than that, Kisa is right. It takes a while before they get used to you and being in a house with so much more noise than they're used to. Set your alarm for 2 am, and as long as he's moving around and hunting, he's fine. Good luck, keep in touch

[Z3r0San1ty]

I appreciate the quick replies back, I am just worried he might be starving himself thats basically what it comes down to the crickets are large that are in the tank with him atm and I believe his size is juvi, don't believe he is at adult stage yet so Ill leave him be and see if he can adapt and eat those crickets with all the lights out, though side question would be I have a open mesh top which I sit a light on and have some towels covering the airflow out the top during the daytime and I can get the tempature to stay around 80, but have to continue spraying to get the humidity to be atleast around 76, is that a good temp and humidity for day hours, because I'm seeing mixed reviews on what temps/humidity should be during day and night hours. plus Im trying to decide which would be a better route to go buying a mister or getting a waterfall built in to keep humidity up so I'm not constantly spraying in the tank. Thanks again in advance.

[bshmerlie]

Welcome to the forum. You've come to the right place. There are many members here who keep red eyes. First please read the Care article for them on the left. That is the best place to start to make sure you are meeting his needs. If you can post a picture of his terrarium so that we can see how you have everything set up. Next, at night keep all the lights off. Make it completely dark not even the red light. Your frogs main diet is going to consist of crickets no bigger than the space between his eyes. My red eyes don't like worms or things like that. You will also need to dust your cricktets with vitamins and calcium powder that you can get at a reptile shop. It should say on the bottle if it is safe for amphibians. Please make sure he has clean fresh water (treated with water conditioner) in a bowl every night. Cover the sides of the tank to help him feel secure and within the next few weeks you will see him start to venture around. The more plants with wide smooth leaves in the tank he has for cover the quicker he will adapt to his new home. Resist the urge to constently look in on him. Mist him in the morning and at night and that should be suffient to keep your humidity in the right range depending on what kind of substrate you are using. Again read the care article. Do a search on the cricket bowl that many members use here for feeding. This will help you to monitor what he is eating. If he is a young frog you should offer up as much as he is willing to eat each night. Again post some pictures of your frog and his enclosure so that we may be able to help you better. Keep us posted on how he is doing.

[Z3r0San1ty]

Ok I've attached some pictures of the tank which consists of silk plants, log, water dish, and moss on the bottom, also there is a heating pad below undeanth the tank and 2 lamps above on a stainless steel mesh top which we use one lamp at a time to keep the temp around 80 degrees, though where should humidity be because the caresheet only showed temps for day and night but didn't specify where humidy level should be for day and night, though to keep humidity in I have to cover up a good portion of the top with a towel to make sure the heat doesn't get out, but as for humidity which would be a better route to go, should I get a waterfall or a automatic mister, maybe some links of good models to have would help too. Below I also posted a video my girlfriend and I took before we put him in his new terrarium which is shown below so any advice to help make him more comfortable let me know I'm open for suggestions. As of right now I replaced a cricket since it died and did not see it this morning, I still have to sift through the moss to see if it was actually eaten or not.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...y/IMG_0565.mp4