WTF sick help!

[FrogLoving17]

Hello, my WTF Mr.Jelly slept in a weird place yesterday. Today, he has been in his water and won't get out. He was fine and ate and was hopping around last night but, today I noticed some droppings near the water dish and the seem to have white little dots crawling around. We just experienced a move 2 weeks ago but he does not seemed stressed out. He is by himself in a 12x12x18 terrarium and I have had him for about 1 year and 3 months. Please help, I will try to post pictures later but should I get the droppings out ASAP or save them for a fecal exam? I feed him daily with a calcium dusting every Thursday. Is he sick?

[Mentat]

Hi Savannah! Little white dots could be springtails which live off soil and stuff in it or mites. If the last; they could pester your frog and cause problems. Do you see any on frogs back? Please answer these questions to try and pinpoint other problems. Thank you !

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2. # of inhabitants - specifically other frogs and size differences
3. Humidity
4. Temperature
5. Water - type - for both misting and soaking dish
6. Materials used for substrate
7. Enclosure set up i.e. plants (live or artificial), wood, bark and other materials.
- How were things prepared prior to being put into the viv.
8. Main food source
9. Vitamins and calcium? (how often)
10. Lighting
11. What is being used to maintain the temperature of the enclosure
12. When is the last time he/she ate
13. Have you found poop lately
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15. How old is the frog
16. How long have you owned him/her
17. Is the frog wild caught or captive bred
18. Frog food- how often and if it is diverse, what other feeders are used as treats
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20. Is the enclosure kept in a high or low traffic area
21. Describe enclosure maintenance (water changes, cleaning, etc)

by Lynn(Flybyferns) and GrifTheGreat.

[FrogLoving17]

Size Of Enclosure: 12x12x18
Inhabitants: 0
Humidity:50% - 80%
Temperature: 76- 79
Water: Spring
Substrate: Coco Fiber w/ hydro balls at bottom
Enclosure: Fake Tall plant, water dish, 2 river rocks, 2 pieces of bark( cleaned thoroughly) , 2 plastic turtles, large plastic log
Food- Crickets ( 1 daily)
Calcium/ Vitamin: Reptivite once a week on 1 cricket
Lighting: Natural Light, used to have light and heat lamp but we had to move and haven't set it up yet
Mantain Temp: Spray Bottle
Ate: Last Night ( 1 cricket)
Droppings?: Today
Age: 1 year 3 months
Owned: 1 year 3 months
Captive or wild bred: Captive
Food: only crickets
Held: once or twice
Kept: Low traffic
Enclouser:Water changes daily, glass cleaned when look messy, Haven't cleaned cage in long time but will tomorrow

[FrogLoving17]

Pictures:

[flybyferns]

Hi Savannah,
How are you ?
Are you sure the "white little dots crawling around" on the poop were not springtails or isopods?

He looks good.

It's difficult to see these in the photo.
If you are not sure, take a fecal sample to a herp vet for testing, a you mentioned doing.
If it's positive (and a parasite is detected ) , I'm sure you know, the treatment is typically very simple.

You should to change to de-chlorinated water for his soaking dishes.
ie Aqauize:
Exo Terra : Aquatize / Terrarium Water Conditioner
It is very simple to use.. 8 drops /gallon of tap water. Fill a few gallon water jugs at a time to use for his water dish(s).
Plus, it's cheaper !!!!

Lynn

[Mentat]

Size Of Enclosure: 12x12x18

Your enclosure volume is 10 gallons. A minimun of 20G in vertical disposition is required for a White. What is your frog lenght from snout to vent (SVL).

Temperature: 76- 79

Need to raise daily temperature to 85F. At night you can let it fall from 68-75F.

Food- Crickets ( 1 daily)
Calcium/ Vitamin: Reptivite once a week on 1 cricket

One cricket daily is very little nutrition for a White frog. How long has frog been eating only 1 cricket? If this is just recent, how many crickets did it normally eat? I've not used Reptivite but normal dusting is calcium 2X and vitamins 1X in different days with off day in between. Also, you would dust all the animal food for that day.

Lighting: Natural Light, used to have light and heat lamp but we had to move and haven't set it up yet.

You need to set-up your heat lamp ASAP.

Droppings?: Today

Recommend take droppings to veterinary for fecal analysis to rule out parasites....

Went ahead and made some recommendations and asked some more questions above. Please try to raise frog's enclosure temperature right away, thanks .

[FrogLoving17]

Thank you Lynn i am good! Im still not sure whetever the were springtails or isopods. I am hopefully going to clean his cage tommorow because I sadly have not cleaned it im a while:/ I probably will stick to spring water because i used distilled water for my old WTF and i think that id what made him pass. Carlos, thank you for all of your helpful advice i immediately set up hid UTH and heat lamp, he crawled out of his water for about 1 hour and ate 1 cricket and was hopping around but is now back in his water:/ I have been trying to buy a new cage but my parents aren't allowing me to yet but i hopefully will be able to quite soon. He has always ate 1 large cricket a night I wasnt able to measure him though. I will also look into the vitiamin/ calcium. Thanks again guys for being so helpful

[kueluck]

Also looks like maybe he could use a bigger water dish so it covers his back. That might be why he spends more time in the dish. And as Carlos said, he needs a bigger home, check your local craigslist for great deals.

[FrogLoving17]

Thank You Gail I never thought of that, I will try to go get him a bigger terrarium w/ water dish ASAP. Thanks again!

[FrogLoving17]

Update: He came out