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Profanicus

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Hey I've had my 3 little Magnificent GTFs for a little while now and they are growing fast, but recently one of them has started becoming ... troublesome ...

This one frog has become finicky, eating a lot less than the other two, and a lot more keen to try jump away.

The other night during feeding it took off and jumped under the bed, and then started croaking like mad, sounding very distressed (they are too young to be croaking generally yet I think).
The other two sat perched on the enclosure edge waiting for another insect as per usual.

Anyone have any insight into what may be going on with this little frog?
 
Is he getting picked on by the others? I have GTFs, and I find just one of them is a little skinnier than the rest, and doesn't seem to do as well getting food. I feed him on his own and he's doing heaps better. Not sure about the early croaking stuff though.
 
Yeah this one does seem a little thinner; I hand-feed all three frogs the same amount of food, just lately this one won't eat as much as the others.
None of them croak at all yet, just this one when it was under the bed was going nuts.
 
Was it raining? or was there a machine of some sort running ie. washing machine, vacuum cleaner? Cos I find mine croak when they hear things that sound like weather. Only 1-2 out of 6 of my frogs only croak, and supposedly it's the males that croak. The girls only do a little croak back, but not very loud like the boys. Just might mean you have 1 boy, and 2 girls.

It is a communication thing, so maybe the little frog hiding was telling the other two he was ok and where he was! :)
 
No rain or machines going, nothing like that. They are all under a year old so (I think) too young to be croaking about the weather, it sounded more like distress.
It was pretty dusty under the bed maybe he didn't like that!
 
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