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ok... so i cant tell if my remaining gliding treefrog is eating or not.. she doesnt seem to move around a lot... shes been in the same place for the last couple of days... although maybe thats just her favorite spot? but i dont think she is eating... any suggestions on force feeding a frog? i worry that it will just stress her out more..i am used to my frogs being gluttons... but when i put crickets in with her she makes mo move to eat them... the info posted for me on a previous post suggested that force feeding will get them started back to having a normal appetite... i am not sure about how to do this without hurting her though.
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my pets: clown treefrogs, reed frogs, big eyed treefrogs, tiger leg monkey frogs, gray treefrogs, milk frogs, cuban treefrogs, whites tree frog, green treefrogs, squirrel treefrogs, blue webbed gliding treefrog, chameleon treefrogs?, dusky salamanders, tiger salamander, veiled chameleon, box turtles, mud turtle, map turtle, yellowbelly slider, florida softshell, two saltwater tanks, four cats, two chinchillas, and a boyfriend.

Is it possible that she's moving and coming back at night?

My frogs sometimes return to the same exact spot.

To start with I didn't think they were eating.
Then I put their crickets in a bowl, and they were disappearing over night.

As the frogs have got more used to me I've seen they come down while I'm about in early evenning, and both sit on the side of the bowl to eat.

I'm not saying this is what's happening for yours, but if they're nocturnal then it's a possibility.

G

i thought that at first.. and it could be ... but shes not eating... shes just getting thinner and thinner.. i force fed her some pheonix worms (supposed to be high calcium).. and the day after she was a lot more active... when i turned on the lights in the morning she was moving around the tank.. i am going to try to keep feeding her until she starts eating on her own.. it does seem to be helping although i am worried about stressing her out by doing this...
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my pets: clown treefrogs, reed frogs, big eyed treefrogs, tiger leg monkey frogs, gray treefrogs, milk frogs, cuban treefrogs, whites tree frog, green treefrogs, squirrel treefrogs, blue webbed gliding treefrog, chameleon treefrogs?, dusky salamanders, tiger salamander, veiled chameleon, box turtles, mud turtle, map turtle, yellowbelly slider, florida softshell, two saltwater tanks, four cats, two chinchillas, and a boyfriend.

The stress of the feedings is certainly preferable to starving to death. Realize, though, that you are dealing with the CAUSE of something, not the effect. In other words, you need to carefully try to figure out WHY the frog is not eating, as well as getting food into it.

I recommend a vet visit, or at least take a fecal sample (if you have one) to the vet to check for parasites, which the frog is likely loaded with because he is most likely WC. You may also want to take some skin swabs to the vet and see if they can determine anything from that. Best of Luck.