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I was observing one of my grays this morning while feeding them, and watched my male do some really strange things. He was watching a cricket at the top of his tree and his mouth was gaping open and closed about every 5 secs. or so. His sides were rippling also and I could see him getting his feet planted to jump. Never obsereved this behavior before, is this somewhat normal before eating? Crickets are gut loaded so he shouldn't be malnutritioned. He eats very well normally.

This behaviour is just predatory stalking; observed in many creatures-- cool to watch'em zero in on food items...

Nice light-gray coloration on your frog!

When I fed "Fluker's" preserved, gut-loaded crix exclusively-- this is when my frogs failed. Resuming a varied diet and switched to "Zoo-Med's Repti-Cricket" (appears to have greater nutritional additives). Dusting w/ calcium powder was important too IMHO

Thanks for the reply! I feed my grays live crickets that I gut load with flukers Calcium Cricket feed and calcium cricket quencher for water. They are on there own as far as stalking and catching there own food, I just turn the crickets loose a few at a time in the tank. I make sure that each frog gets there fill. The largest gray I have, tries to eat all of them, he's a pig! I guess I should probably get some vita-dust or something. I have other creatures that eat crickets so I go through several dozen a week, at least they're cheap.

Later,
BRAD

Yeah, I had no problems offering live crix "Fluker's" feed and "Quencher". Good products. Previously they were fed live, gut-loaded crix, dusted twice/week-- no probs for almost 4 years.

Only When I fed my frogs preserved, freeze-dried crix exclusively (even broke dried crix in half-- thorax & abdomen to make 'em last) did I observe "Lazy Leg" in the females-- Oddly, my male showed no sysmptoms. The only conclusion was that this was not nutritious enough...