Is this a prolapse??

[Shanny]

Aw good, I'm glad she's back to normal. Yeah I felt bad not feeding him so I tried giving him meal worms but he wouldn't eat them


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[butcher]

Thanks everyone!! I'm gonna try and hold off for a week and then try the small earthworms like Brian had done. I'm sure she will be hungry but its for her one sake. She has been well feed soshe should be ok going awhile without and she deffinatly isn't going to like being in the quarentine for a couple weeks.

[UncleChester]

Hi, that's awesome that it went back in and I hope it stays there.

A week of fasting should be absolutely no problem at all for an otherwise healthy adult treefrog, so don't feel bad if you go even longer. I would have gone longer in my case, but I was going away for ten days and didn't want her first food and bowel movement to be when someone else was taking care of her. The reintroduction to food should also be slow, the less defecating while healing the better. Earthworms are great if your frog will take them and they can be chopped up into smaller bits that still wriggle.

Lots of handy info from Frank Indiviglo on recovery in the comments section here: Amphibian and Reptile Emergencies. If you end up feeding crickets, Frank suggests that smaller is better, and back legs removed will also help with digestibility.

Best of luck and keep us updated!

[butcher]

She passed what was impacted in her, it looked to be about a 3/8 - 12 inch cricket and possibly a small piece of coco husk. Thanks Brian I'm gonna take your advise and try earthworm pieces. I would suspect after a week of fasting she will take them if they move she is a pretty aggressive feeder. I put more jungle mix overtop of the coco husk in my viv to prevent the other 2 from doing the same and culled the bigger crickets in the cricket keeper.

[helm96]

Glad to hear that your little guy is on the road to recovery! Thanks for the info everybody, it is good to read about this stuff before it happens so you are prepared if/when it does!

[DonLisk]

Many of use feed from a glass bowl so that there is less chance of them swallowing substrate and less crickets on the loose in the vivarium.

A simple cereal bowl made of glass is too slippery for the crickets to get traction and escape from. If sunk into the substrate, will also collect loose crickets since they seem to love to fall back in.

I use plantation soil or straight coco fiber.

[butcher]

I use the bowl method for feeding but the odd one seems to escape and usually ends up commiting suicide in the water bowl.lol I think maybe the peice of husk just may have washed off her in the water bowl in the quarentine tank, it was quite small and at the opposite end from where she passed the cricket. I'm thinking I may do a change on the substrate to a plantation soil , the jungle mix seems to have some larger pieces in it.