Red eye worry

[knighty]

hi peeps i got 3 red eye tree frogs at the end of jan and they were about 3 cm. 2 of them have now doubled in size but one has hardly grown...

i always feed a variety of sized crickets/hoppers so that there is something for everyone. he is very thin but seems to be healthy.

the one that has not grown i have moved to a 8inch x 3inch x 4inch exo terra plastic tub, so i can monitor his eating, i will count the crickets in then count in the morning. he must of been getting some food because i came home to a poop. on the floor i have put a damp paper towel so crickets cant hide and only decore is a smalll piece of thin plant at the top of one side and a branch corner to corner. i have drilled holes in the sides for airiation, and half covered the top with plastic to help with the humidity.

does any one know if females grow faster than males? i keep calling him a him but could be a girl...

feel bad taking him out his home but hoping it for the best, is this the right thing to have done?

[countryboy]

I have two red eye tree frogs and that iv had for bout three months,and the same thing happend to me, i did a little research and i found out that the female grows alot bigger than the males are.

[knighty]

does this mean that they grow slower too?

[Green Ghost]

Knighty, I would have done the exact same thing. Monitor how many crickets he eats. Then you'll know for sure if he's ok or not.

If you want him to put on little weight feed him cut earthworms. The cut pieces still wiggle so he'll notice them.

My RETFs do not like light at all, so I have to make sure they are awakened and ready to eat before I put the crickets in and I usually do it with a flashlight because it scares them when I turn on a normal light.

Maybe his bigger siblings are giving him too much competition.

[knighty]

i put 7 crickets in last night, the size up from pin head, abou 2-3mm and there was only one left when i got in.... they cant of escaped as its imposible even sas would of peen stumped lol

i have night lights so i put food in at around 7.45 lights change at 8...

will keep in in for 2 weeks to see how he goes, will get earth worms and maybee give him a lunch time feed....

None of my RETFs are ever awake in the day, they do like to basc near the light though.... wierdos!

thanks for help, will keep yall posted...

[Green Ghost]

It's good to hear he's eating. Doesn't sound like there's a problem.

[knighty]

think he may of been bullied out of the hunt being so small....

also being smaller the crickets he could eat was probably hiding easily, will wait till hes bulked up and put him back in....

[cruziohyla craspedopus]

how is he doing?

[knighty]

seems like the membrane is growing back... he is back in the main viv now and eating like a dream... thanks for asking ;-)