I went to bed last night with 4 happy healthy treefrogs. When I woke up I went to check on everything and I noticed that my baby bearded dragon was going nuts trying to get into the other cage. When I looked at the red eyes I noticed ants swarming all over the top of the cage and along all of my other cages. I immediately opened the cage (ants starting to swarm all over my arm) and checked the plant for the treefrogs so I could get them out of there. Then I noticed 2 small frog corpses in the top left hand corner of the tank. Swarming all over the 2 corpses were ants. Then I noticed a 3rd corpse covered in ants. And then the last corpse covered in ants. It turned out that the ants were atracted to the piece of orange I put in the tank for the fruit flys. And my bearded dragon was trying to eat the ants.
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Ant attack. Sad story.
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Sorry to hear that .If you would like some more trees
I have over 400 gray tree frogs left . I will send you some
if you pay shipping
Also do what I did, put a narrow mouth frog or 2 in your
inclosure
Jeff Rentchler
334-982-0509
Not a good idea Jeff!
I dont want gray tree frogs. It was 4 red eyes that got devoured by the ants. I want more red eyes. Though I still feel awful.
Im very sorry for you and your Red Eyes,poor babies. Awful way to go. I think jeff was just trying to help offering some babies to you,I wouldnt be rude about it.Cheer up.
Oh sorry I didn't mean to sound rude.
antas are constantly killing my things. they always get crickets and killed my batch of bbay hissing roaches... i miss them.. they attack my other pets too, killing any insect or small reptile
