Please help tiger legged may be dying

[frognerd101]

Hello its Andrew again.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their help on all of my frogs. You guys really helped me out a lot.


My concern is that I have a small Tiger Legged Monkey frog that is dying. He was awake all day, unusual for a nocturnal frog, and I noticed frequent yawning. When I picked him up to see what the problem was, he fell off my hand upside down on the ground and could not get up. I decided to put him in a small tank with shallow water at the bottom. He could not swim or jump, he only twitched and then remained still. So I changed to paper towels, and he is continually not moving. His legs are spread far apart, and he keeps thrusting his head up.

For weeks now he has been displaying unusual behavior, and he also is very skinny with a large brown spot on his back. He also is not the normal bluish green color he should be. He is more of a really brownish green color.

I don't know what to do and I am very stressed out. Any recommendation would be appreciated.

Also, I had him in with other specimens. Should I do a major reconstruction and cleaning of the tank. There are live plants that I worked really hard to set up in the tank. Or would it be okay to just leave it be. The other animals are not showing any signs of disease.


Thank you everyone for their help.

[DonLisk]

Hi Andrew. So sorry to hear but I believe your only course of action is to take it to a vet.
It is too hard to diagnose without doing a fecal exam and physically seeing the frog to make a determination for a course of action. Since it is skinny as you stated, it is probably too weak to move and feed.

You can try the info below which was posted by another member but if your frog has parasites or worms, the treatment is not going to correct that. A vet will prescribe something that will.
Quoted from a previous post: "What I would try first is to give your frog a bath of honey or electrolyte water. These can give a lethargic frog a little boost. For the honey heat a bath of water to 80 degrees, melt a few drops of honey (there is no exact measurement for this, just a drop of honey per ounce of water) and let the water cool a little before bathing your frog. For the electrolytes, lots of people use unflavored pedialite (which is what I use). Stay away from the flavored stuff, no telling what that has in it. Unflavored pedialite looks like water and has barely any taste. Drop this in warm water (mid-70s or room temp) at a 10/1 ratio (10 water, 1 pedialite, so like...10 ounces of water, one ounce of pedialite) and mix it in, then give the frog a bath for 10-20 minutes to let it soak in the nutrients."


As for the tank, Its hard to say but most would wash everything down and replace the water and substrate to remove any chance of transferred infection from what ever caused your frogs illness.

[frognerd101]

Thank you very much for your advice. I really appreciate it.

However, he did pass away last night. It was a hard loss, but I am glad that he is not in pain anymore.

[flybyferns]

Thank you very much for your advice. I really appreciate it.

However, he did pass away last night. It was a hard loss, but I am glad that he is not in pain anymore.

Hi Andrew,
I'm so sorry to here you lost your Tiger Leg
It is hard. Sorry
Lynn

[butcher]

Very sorry to hear that Andrew.

[GrifTheGreat]

I'm sorry for your loss. You did what you could. You did your best to make him comfertable.

[Mentat]

Sorry for your frog's death.

[Chaser]

Is this your first frog? Sorry for your loss.