I purchased a group of four Brazilian Yellow Heads at Frog Day this past May. They came home with me and held up fairly well for a little while, but then the biggest started getting skinny.
When I started feeling like there was no more hope (but the frogs were still alive so I insisted on still trying) I had to go out of town for a few days. I left three of the frogs with my friend who has way more experience with tinctorius than I have (I only left three because we had separated one and it put on weight and started growing). Over the weekend the biggest one died and then a few weeks later one of the smaller ones died.
Due to some unexpected scheduling difficulties it's been hard for me to get the remaining frog back from my friend. However, I just spoke with him. He says that while the frog does not look skinny or particularly sickly, its overall growth has been negligible. He's fed well supplemented melanogasters, hydei, and termites, but the frog is probably a little small for bean beetles.
I'm concerned about this, because my first experience with tinctorius I had the same thing happen to one of my azureus. It stayed the same size for nine months and then died for seemingly no reason. I'm looking for suggestions to help avoid that outcome this time.
When I started feeling like there was no more hope (but the frogs were still alive so I insisted on still trying) I had to go out of town for a few days. I left three of the frogs with my friend who has way more experience with tinctorius than I have (I only left three because we had separated one and it put on weight and started growing). Over the weekend the biggest one died and then a few weeks later one of the smaller ones died.
Due to some unexpected scheduling difficulties it's been hard for me to get the remaining frog back from my friend. However, I just spoke with him. He says that while the frog does not look skinny or particularly sickly, its overall growth has been negligible. He's fed well supplemented melanogasters, hydei, and termites, but the frog is probably a little small for bean beetles.
I'm concerned about this, because my first experience with tinctorius I had the same thing happen to one of my azureus. It stayed the same size for nine months and then died for seemingly no reason. I'm looking for suggestions to help avoid that outcome this time.