To dig, or not to dig up your pyxie

[MonsterPyxie]

I would also agree its time to go to a vet, or the frog could die randomly, atleast thats what i would be fearing for my frog.

Is there no sign's of the her going into aestivation/hibernation?

[dsmalex97]

What are the signs exactly?

[BG]

Try the rodent test .if she fails then have her examened. Alot of vendors get wc animals with parasites.and disease.

[steest]

+1 to what BG said, and also even some captive bred frogs have diseases and parasites as well. 2 months ago i bought a pacman, it was just a froglet about 3/4 inch, and after a month it started showing signs of chytrid. Being a complete noob I did not catch it in time. (before I found this excellent forum) I tried to treat it but too late and it passed. Even if it is captive bred, you do not know the conditions that the previos owner had it in. Please go to vet.

[dsmalex97]

I got an appointment for the 31.

Until then, I removed coco fiber and have her in an all water setup with a small area to climb out. When I dug her up, her belly was kind of cool. I'm assuming it was because she went to the very bottom, (below 4-5 inches of substrate) which was getting any kind of direct heat. Maybe she was just too cool once she dug herself down, and her metabolism slowed? She was also in the middle of a shed. She looks beautiful now! Really bright green! So far she's responding quite nicely to the change, and seems to be content. She likes to completely go under the water and submerge her face, and when I hover above the tank she pops up lol! Now, you guys are saying to do the rodent test? Should I wait to see her poop before feeding her again?

[Sublime]

@dsm No, if the temperature is high enough (i.e. 80-90F) you don't have to wait for her to expel waste. Just push a frozen-thawed rat up against her mouth or force feed it to her. If you can find or buy a syringe, also buy liquid calcium w/ d3 and liquid vitamins made for reptiles and amphibians... Inject the mouse with it to pack it with nutrition.

Just feed an appropriate sized mouse to her (half size rule). Seems like she's acclimating real well to the water setup... Nice.

[dsmalex97]

So now, being that I got he to eat those night crawlers should I hold off with the rat? And if she doesn't go for it, how do I force feed it to her? I saw some videos on youtube and it seems a lot easier then force feeding a snake (such a pain in the neck).

[dsmalex97]

I believe so too! Fingers are crossed!

I'm going to wait for her to poop before I go forcing a mouse into her I think...I watched a couple of videos on force feeding and it doesn't seem hard compared to force feeding a snake lol. My one ball python clutch had a couple of problem feeders, and I'm still force feeding them every week, and its a miserable experience to say the least!

**Sorry for the double post! lol! I thought it deleted my text and didn't post the above one...Idk whats going on with my computer...