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Hello all,
I’ve had my tinc babies for 3 months now and am concerned about one of them. One froglet is extremely active and is constantly hopping around the tank, gobbling up everything in sight. The other is very shy and is becoming quite skinny. I’ve experimented a bit, and it is able to eat (so I don’t think it’s sick), it just seems to be extremely picky. It will not move forward and eat food even 3 inches in front of it, regardless of whether I am there, and the FFs have to be almost directly under it. About once a week it comes out from the leaf litter, and if I pour a massive load of FFs right in front of it, it doesn’t really notice me and slurps up about 10-20.
I initially thought it was just scared and eats only when I’m not around, but if a large group of FFs congregates in front of its favorite hiding spot, it does not decrease in size for several days until the larger frog finds them, and the other frog is growing much faster and fatter. It only eats if I manually give it the flies right in front of it. I am therefore intrigued about its behavior and am wondering if anyone has any solutions. I am getting worried about the difference is growth rate between the froglets, since they are now very noticeably different in size. I haven’t seen signs of aggression yet (the two used to sit together under the same leaf for hours until about a week ago), but I’m worried the larger frog will start getting more and more dominant. The smaller frog has definitely gotten skinnier this week. From what I can tell the larger one is male and the smaller one is female, but they are still young.
I’ve had my tinc babies for 3 months now and am concerned about one of them. One froglet is extremely active and is constantly hopping around the tank, gobbling up everything in sight. The other is very shy and is becoming quite skinny. I’ve experimented a bit, and it is able to eat (so I don’t think it’s sick), it just seems to be extremely picky. It will not move forward and eat food even 3 inches in front of it, regardless of whether I am there, and the FFs have to be almost directly under it. About once a week it comes out from the leaf litter, and if I pour a massive load of FFs right in front of it, it doesn’t really notice me and slurps up about 10-20.
I initially thought it was just scared and eats only when I’m not around, but if a large group of FFs congregates in front of its favorite hiding spot, it does not decrease in size for several days until the larger frog finds them, and the other frog is growing much faster and fatter. It only eats if I manually give it the flies right in front of it. I am therefore intrigued about its behavior and am wondering if anyone has any solutions. I am getting worried about the difference is growth rate between the froglets, since they are now very noticeably different in size. I haven’t seen signs of aggression yet (the two used to sit together under the same leaf for hours until about a week ago), but I’m worried the larger frog will start getting more and more dominant. The smaller frog has definitely gotten skinnier this week. From what I can tell the larger one is male and the smaller one is female, but they are still young.