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Strange question for ya!

My White's Tree Frog that I just got on the 9th seems to... well, smell? His tank is cleaned weekly and is spot-checked every day... Not much poo and his skin seems to smell. What's up?

Also, he's pretty small. Maybe... 2 inches? He's not big enough for large crix is he? The small ones do him no justice, not even a buldge in his belly! (But don't worry, he isn't starved, he's well fed!)

Just concerned about the smell. I'll take his tank out and give it a good once-over tomorrow after school but the odor is really coming from him... not his substrate.

I have two RETF's in a 30 gal terrarium, which is wild planted, and I don't clean out their stool unless it's on a plant or on the waterfall.
Anything that goes into the substrate ( which is 1 inch moss on top of orchid bark and moss peat ) is fine. They don't tend to actually go into the substrate, and it helps fetilise the ecosystem.

Either way - it doesn't smell at all bad. Smells just like a little jungle.

As you said - the smell is the frog (or his skin), not his tank.

Crickets can smell if you keep them and don't clean them out completely once a week.

Lee's cricket keeper is great for that - you can take out all the tubes, block the ends, and then clean the keeper out without losing any crickets.

As for the size of cricket, why not just get some small/medium ones, rather than adults.
If you get small ones only, sure they're going to be too small, but you should be able to get a mixutre.
I get mine here:
http://globallivefood.com/shop/home.php?cat=250

As for what they can eat - I believe the rule of "whose length is no greater than the width of your cricket's head/shout" should hold for whites, but I'm not sure.

G