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Hi

Today one of my tinct die...I fed him yesterday one flour beetle...she ate it right away and show no signs of it being too big. Could this be the cause of the death?

Thanks
Jose Cantu

Flour beetles shoud not be fed except for when they are larvae, the adults exoskeleton has super high amounts of chitlin (sp?). I am not sure how much of this is needed to cause death though. What about other variables...temps, humidity, parasites, other pathogens, territoriality, stress? do you have any more frogs left?
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While the above post is correct, flour beetles you should feed the larva- not the actual beetles.

My concern is more of starvation however.

If you *only* fed him one beetle yesterday, and this is a normal routine...

Tinks are larger frogs and depending on the age/size, they need to eat quite a bit more than many other frogs.

yeah, thats what i said. only feed the larvae, i didn't say feed the adult beetles.
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Hi, sorry for the late response (college student). He was with 4 leucs, all being feed fruit flies every day, I was just trying new food sources, all of the other frogs are doing good.

you really shouldn't mix species, it never ever benefits the animals. if one frog died there is a very good chance the other ones could die of the same thing, they may not be showing any signs now but sometimes they take a little while to manifest themselves. what were the temps, humidity, diet, age, cage size...? did you quarentine? and if you did, were the tinc and the leucs from the same breeder/cage? again, mixing species is never a good idea. and to find out why yours died i need to know more about it's husbandry. you should at least get fecals done and see if anything comes back, and send in as many samples as you can.
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