Red Eye Tree Frog Not Eating!

[trentolio]

hello welcome to FF i also just bought a red eyed tree frog and had the same experience my frog hadnt eaten in 5 days i got so worried that i force fed him one cricket after that he started hunting on his own also, the humidity should be at least 70% if not higher frogs tend to do better at higher humiditys id recomend force feeding one cricket because red eyed tree frogs can die after 7 days of not eating best of luck ,trent

[irThumper]

hello welcome to FF i also just bought a red eyed tree frog and had the same experience my frog hadnt eaten in 5 days i got so worried that i force fed him one cricket after that he started hunting on his own also, the humidity should be at least 70% if not higher frogs tend to do better at higher humiditys id recomend force feeding one cricket because red eyed tree frogs can die after 7 days of not eating best of luck ,trent

Some frogs can tolerate higher humidity (like Darts) and others, like White's, can handle lower humidity. RETF's, according to my research, should do perfectly well at 60-75%, but above 80% for great lengths of time are not recommended. The source says they spend the majority of their time in areas of the canopy where they get plenty of air flow and so do not have highly concentrated areas of dense humidity. Air flow helps to regulate it, so you don't want to be sealing up all the vents and socking the humidity to the enclosure.

I disagree on the force feeding. She's only had her 6 days and that's not a long enough period of time to be worried about the frog enough to force feed; I would only do that in an extreme emergency or with an emicated (sp?) frog, which Dreamz frog obviously is not. Force feeding is just going to cause more stress, and stress is a killer of frogs

[Dreamz]

I setup some crickets in a small glass bowl before I went out to dinner and still nothing . Thanks for the info Trent. Because she is kind of plump atm I think I will hold off for a little with the force feeding. I know how delicate these little guys are so worst case I'll try that. As for the humidity I really have no other choice than to block off one screen (there are two screens up top and a grill in front so it's not completly blocked). Even with multiple mistings throughout the day I can only reach around 30%. I just used a little plastic wrap to cover the one screen. I puchased some usb fans that I tried running but I find they are drying the tank out too much. I'm planing on getting a mistking soon so I can have more added that way. Also I've seen her sloughing twice. is there any nutritional value to that? Again I appreciate all the advise any more is welcome!

[LilyPad]

Typing on my phone so apologies for any typos. Humidity needs to stay up there, I have about 3/4 of my screen top covered during the winter while running the creramic heat emitter. 70-80 degrees is a pretty broad range, get a thermostat so you can maintain some stability, instability will stress them. Cover 3 sides of the tank to give her some more comfort, possibly more of the tank. I only had about 50% of one side of the tank open while giving my reds time to adjust. Fix all of that and give her time to adjust.

Read this also -
Frog Forum - Red-Eyed Leaf Frog/Red Eyed Tree Frog Care - Agalychnis callidryas

[irThumper]

GREAT pics! Love that shedding one, lol :P 30% is definitely too low, so you do indeed need to do something to bring it up :/ the fogger might just be your best bet after all.

(Where are all of our long time RETF experts on here...??)

[Dreamz]

Just wanted to update you guys. So after 10 days she has finally eaten. Yesterday she ate 3 out of five I placed in her tank and I just watched her eat another 4! What a pig!!! Much thanks to irthumper and Amy your advice really helped! So relieved she is finally eating.

[irThumper]

Awesome job! Could be too that she was just waiting after a good shed. Congrats!