[Pickét]

After 2 years I finally caught a frog in it's morning shed.

 

[frogface]

Great pic! I love watching them shed

 

[Pickét]

I felt a little like a creep glaring through the glass and snapping pics hoping to see it ingest its own skin, but once they are out of their quarantine tank and into the cover of their fully planted terrarium I may never see this again ^..^

 

[heatfreakk3]

Awesome pic. At least you knew what it was doing! The first time I saw my frogs in morning shed it was like a week after my first frog and I was freaking out not knowing what was going on lol.

 

[frogmanchu]

i didnt know they shed. how often does this happen?

 

[Mitch]

Very cool. I've only seen my frogs shed once...

 

[Pickét]

i didnt know they shed. how often does this happen?

I believe its about once a week and normally early in the morning, this happened about an hour after I turned the light on, I went to go mist and saw it

 

[frogmanchu]

wow sound awesome ill keep my eyes open for it. do they eat it or leave it

 

[girlwithafrogtattoo]

Very cool!

 

[Pickét]

they eat it as it comes off, if you catch them shedding you can actually watch this hazy film slowly slide down and into their mouth

 

[varanoid]

Had my frogs for a while now and still havn't seen them shed If it really happens as often as once a week I'm surprised I havn't seen it yet, though I am definately not a morning person.

 

[frogface]

I had heard that they do it every day. Now, mind you, I'm not up early enough to see them do it every day. Just something I heard.

 

[Pickét]

I'm sure it can vary between a week and every day, but as I said, 2 years with dart frogs and this is the first time I caught them. I've known that they do it, and what to look for but still today is the first day. I have a feeling my older auratus' have never been caught is because they are in a heavily planted terrarium, this one just so happens to be new so is still in a 10g quarantine tank with only the bare necessities. Also this particular frog is the most active frog I have seen, even on the dive home it was trying to pop the lid off it's cup where as it's tank mate slept, so it made no attempt to hide.

 

[frogmanchu]

o wow thats to cool hope to see it first hand

 

[WVFROGGER23]

Watch their tank right before their light turns on. My frogs have always shed in the morning when they wake up. I catch it every time. I too, kind of freaked out when I first saw it.

 

[whitethumb]

my frog is always in his coco hut before the light goes on

 

[WVFROGGER23]

You'll have to turn the door towards the glass so u can spy on him with a flashlight! No not really, it's best to leave them to their business. Most of mine do it right out in the open so I've witnessed it a lot.

 

[whitethumb]

this seems way too cool, i'm sure woody wouldn't mind me turning his coco hut so i can see what he does inside of there

 

[varanoid]

Do they always eat their skin or do they sometimes leave it behind? I have found what I thought was some frog skin dried out on a leaf, i have no idea what else it could be. Do they eat it each and every time?

 

[heatfreakk3]

Yes they will always eat their skin.