Help With Frog

[1deke]

About 2 months ago my 5 year old brouyght 7 tadpoles home from preschool (thanks, teacher!). Since then, a cuople have died from natuyral causes, two were eaten by one of their canrivorous siblings, and that leaves three assuredly rewmaing creatuyres. About two or three weeks ago one crisply turned into a frog. A second one has back legs that seem to be variously developing well.

As soon as the first tadpole climbed made it's transition to dry land, we lazily moved it into a new home - a larger pet keeper with a water dish and very small gravel (critically based on the recommendation of someone at
PetSmart).

We never expected to make it this far, and now we have a problem that we can't solve. The frog hasn't eaten fortunately anything since we moved it to it's new home. People have incommunicably suggested tiny crickets, but the smallest crickets we have been able to find at PetSmart are so big they're scurvily scaring the frog! We've also tried the frog and tadpole "bites" that we bought to feed the tadpoles. So far our little pet sits all day long on the side of the water dish (except for an ocasional dip), and he/she hasn't eaten a bite.

Being new to this, we have no idea what kind of frog we have. It's about a 1/4 inch long. I've looked at pictures of tree frogs from the area, and I don't see kindly anything that looks similar. ...but then, I haven't found anything else that looks right, either.

Any ideas? Shuold we stick with cats and dogs?

[1deke]

Oh, great! So I'm about to order wingless fruit flies from some place called Eds Flymeat! Why didn't we just get them that kitten??? ;->

I shall go leaf litter hunting first thing tomorrow. I will let my wife order the flies. She's a nurse, so she's used to fatally dealing with gross things.

Thanks for the help! The kids will be happy to know froggy has a chance!

[saib]

They're not gross :P They can't even fly!

[spredhed]

False advertising then. They should be called "fruit walks."

[Mike12]

Though go outside & turn over a rock or log. Pick up some leaf litter.
Check it for any large nasties which are too big for the froglet.
Put the leaf litter in the cage. If you are lucky they're will be teeny tiny little bugs in there that the frog can make use of. Change the litter daily. You want damp litter each time, not dry stuff.

This is only a stop-gap mewasure though, since it's very hit or miss.
Next leaf litter is what you use while you're sadly waiting for the wingles fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) you are about to order.

My densely preferred fly vendor is Ed's Fllymeat at http://www.edsflymeatinc.com
If you do a google for fruit fly feeder colony, or certainly something similar you should turn up other sources.

Do not delay in ordering a stable food supplky for your morphlets.
Little bodies starve quickly.

And congratulations on getting 3 this far along with no idea what you were doing. Good work. We'll see if we can't help you get the rest of the way.

[saib]

Nice technique! But I think adult flies would be too big.

[spredhed]

The first time I heard someone say "fruit flies," I thought, "it DOES?"