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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Thats awful, I'm so sorry to here that. I had a similar experience happen, sort of with my little baby veiled chameleon. Her tail got stuck in her tank lid, and the crix, started chewing right through her tail! Her tail was still in tact though, and she didn't die. I felt awful though.
Sorry to here about your situation.
Steven
Wow, that is terrible. I always have ants kill my crickets and things, but if they actually killed one of my frogs--I'd probably turn very evil against them. that really, really sucks. It must feel terrible, so I hope you feel better, and I'm very sorry this happened 
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Such a horrible way to die for 4 little red eyes.
