Northern Leopard Frog stopped eating!

[Kurt]

No rattling or any sounds at all is very good. What might be the case is he/she is settling down for the winter. If thats the case, then there are two courses of action. One, you increase the photo-period to 12 - 14 hours a day. This may make him/her snap out of it. Or the other course of action is to cool him/her down to about 55 -58F till March. So if you have a cellar or a garage, he/she gets to live there until spring.

Administering oral meds/supplements is never easy, its even worse with turtles and salamanders. I use these dental floss picks to pry open mouths. It works fairly well, just wished I had a third hand to make it easier.

[kymillers]

He's already getting 14 hours of UVB light daily and has been all along (except for the first few days, when it was 14 hours of incandescent light daily). He is inside his coconut half-shell buried under moss, but the light is on the tank. I did take his shell away yesterday and left his extra-deep pile of moss in his favorite corner.

You don't use the pointed end of the flosser, do you? I'm guessing the rounded part? You're right - three or even four hands would help a lot!

As far as cooling him down: Our basement is fully finished and part of our living area, and our garage would be too cold. We live in KY where the average mid-winter temps are in the teens andn sometimes below zero. I can't think of anywhere except maybe the fridge that would be a possibility. That's about 38 degrees or so, but I don't know if I can handle the thought of refridgerating my child's pet! If he is ill or still just shocked from the change of environment, won't cooling him down possibly kill him?