Help!!

[Shanny]

How long have you had this frog? He may be sick due to old age if you got him as an adult..
If not though, you may want to try and find a vet in your area that deals with exotics.
I had to do this recently with my RETF because he had a prolapse.

[Badger]

Any oh yes, vet visit is in order. If you don't have a vet, here's an awesome website to find one. http://herpvetconnection.com/

[DonLisk]

sorry to hear your frog is not doing well. Always, the best bet is for you to have a vet examine your frog. There are some posts here on the forum about using honey or pedialite (sp?) to help add some energy and appetite to your frog. I can't do much in searching since I have lost my computer and answering this from my phone.

The bloating of the stomach area is what worries me and definitely a vet visit would be your best course of action. Good luck.

[mh530]

Okay.....

Size of tank: 10 gallon.
Temp: Mid 70s
Food: Small Crickets.
Vet: Don't have one
Size of frog: 1 1/2"
Number of frogs in tank: 3
Substrate: forest bark(small pieces)

I was wondering if it could have eaten the bark, but Every time they start to get one in their mouth they pull it out. I don't really want to have to go to the vet just for a frog. every time I have gone to one it seems the money in your pocket disappears! Also this frog is WC, if that has anything to do with it. I got him on may 30th of this year. Like I said I was afraid he would get the others sick so I put him In a diff container. Also just to say, I would have a bigger tank for them but I don't have enough room. He is even more bloated now. I feel so bad for him! OH! Also he has pooped red....Is he bleeding inside? I feel so bad if its my fault....

[mh530]

I hope he gets better!!

[ViperJr]

I hope he gets better!!

What are you doing? A few minutes ago, you wrote "Nevermind, I just found dead. I flushed him". Now, you have apperently change the text to "I hope he gets better!!". What's going on?

[mh530]

sorry.....I wrote I flushed him....but I had't yet and I just walking in there to do so. so just went ahead and wrote that. Well guess what!!! I went to flush him and he was back up and acting just fine again. And when I found him belly up I swear he wasn't breathing. talk about weird. Anyway I am keeping him in a separate container just to make sure though.

[ViperJr]

I was wondering if it could have eaten the bark, but Every time they start to get one in their mouth they pull it out.

This seriously should have been an enormous warning bell for you. Bark pieces as a substrate for frogs are potentionally dangerous (since it can cause impaction). Now, if you even observered them almost swallowing it, you really should have changed it already.

I don't really want to have to go to the vet just for a frog.

Seriously? "Just for a frog"? You have a pet, which is your resonsibility just a much as a dog or a cat would be. With that attitude, I strongly suggest that you do not keep amphibians as pets.

Lastly, I hope the frogs survives. And like DonLisk, Dalton and Shanny said, it's really time to go to a vet.