Hi!
My husband and I are keeping 4 d. auratus frogs, and have had them for just over a year. We bought them as 'sub adults' and so imagine they are basically now grown. Two seem very active and a very healthy weight. One is reasonably active and maybe a touch skinny (but we are increasing the feeding and so hope he/she will respond). The final one, however, has been displaying some really strange behavior.
Back in June, this particular frog started disappearing in the tank for days at a time. At one point he (I'll say 'he' as I can't tell the gender), was invisible to us, despite us searching, for a good 10 days before reappearing (a bit skinnier but not outrageously-it's-time-to-panic thin). For a while, he acted normal and was visible almost every day.
As a consequence of a recent move, we had to down size their tank (though this was probably going to happen anyway as it seemed like the first tank was too big for them), and they are now living in a nice 3 ft x 15 inches x 12 inches tank with lots of spring tails and wood lice. Anyway, for a first few days in this new tank, this particular frog pulled his disappearing act and hid in some of the darker corners, so I figured he was just adjusting to his new surroundings.
He's been getting skinnier, though, and today, he has refused to eat (despite still being skinny), and he's been acting really, really strange...strange in a way that I can't seem to find any posts about.
Imagine a frog that is tilted right up by the glass, kind of standing/leaning/crouching against the glass, looking up, but not fully on the glass. That is basically what this frog looks like, except he's upside down. His nose is tilted into the substrate (but not buried in it), and his front legs are on the ground, and he rear legs are on the glass...they are not extended, and everything seems relaxed...as if he were just sitting on a leaf, and not realizing that he is, in fact, upside down.
I've never seen him do this before, and he's been like this for most of the day. He's moved two or three times, but each time, puts himself in this position again. He also doesn't seem to respond when I go close to the glass, and looks skinnier than I've seen him in a while.
The humidity in the tank is above 80%, there's good air circulation, and although I can't see the temp gauge right now, all the other frogs are acting completely normally, and so I assume that the temp is fine too.
I'm really worried about this odd behavior though. Can anyone shed any light on this???
My husband and I are keeping 4 d. auratus frogs, and have had them for just over a year. We bought them as 'sub adults' and so imagine they are basically now grown. Two seem very active and a very healthy weight. One is reasonably active and maybe a touch skinny (but we are increasing the feeding and so hope he/she will respond). The final one, however, has been displaying some really strange behavior.
Back in June, this particular frog started disappearing in the tank for days at a time. At one point he (I'll say 'he' as I can't tell the gender), was invisible to us, despite us searching, for a good 10 days before reappearing (a bit skinnier but not outrageously-it's-time-to-panic thin). For a while, he acted normal and was visible almost every day.
As a consequence of a recent move, we had to down size their tank (though this was probably going to happen anyway as it seemed like the first tank was too big for them), and they are now living in a nice 3 ft x 15 inches x 12 inches tank with lots of spring tails and wood lice. Anyway, for a first few days in this new tank, this particular frog pulled his disappearing act and hid in some of the darker corners, so I figured he was just adjusting to his new surroundings.
He's been getting skinnier, though, and today, he has refused to eat (despite still being skinny), and he's been acting really, really strange...strange in a way that I can't seem to find any posts about.
Imagine a frog that is tilted right up by the glass, kind of standing/leaning/crouching against the glass, looking up, but not fully on the glass. That is basically what this frog looks like, except he's upside down. His nose is tilted into the substrate (but not buried in it), and his front legs are on the ground, and he rear legs are on the glass...they are not extended, and everything seems relaxed...as if he were just sitting on a leaf, and not realizing that he is, in fact, upside down.
I've never seen him do this before, and he's been like this for most of the day. He's moved two or three times, but each time, puts himself in this position again. He also doesn't seem to respond when I go close to the glass, and looks skinnier than I've seen him in a while.
The humidity in the tank is above 80%, there's good air circulation, and although I can't see the temp gauge right now, all the other frogs are acting completely normally, and so I assume that the temp is fine too.
I'm really worried about this odd behavior though. Can anyone shed any light on this???
Separate and put in a quarantine container immediately. What and how old are the vitamin supplements are you dusting with?
