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[SaraBailey]

My little guy hasn't eaten in almost a week and hasn't pooped in almost 1 1/2 weeks. Since she hasn't been eating, I have been forcing her to eat calcium by opening her mouth. She pushes everything away and slapped the calcium away. Her legs seem to go every which way, and only every once in awhile I'll be able to get a weak jump out of her. I have put her in warm water with honey, but she climbs out and sits on the edge of the dish. She doesn't have an issue peeing on me, which I don't know is a good sign or bad. I'm worried about my little girl and don't know what I can to do make her feel better.

[tgampper]

Sorry to hear about your frog. I would stop the calcium and keep the frog in a quiet place. It is probably stressed out. Hand feed food items a little smaller than usual, that way she won't have to work hard for the meal.

[DonLisk]

As Terry said, smaller items and keep an eye on her weight.
If he/she is not under weight, they can go quite a while without eating.

If you can get the frog to eat smaller hand fed items, there is a liquid calcium available you can spray on the meal right before feeding.
I have seen some grind up earthworms with some calcium powder added in and then force fed with an eye dropper.

The honey bath is for a frog that is listless and seems to have no energy. If this is the case then use a piece of Tupperware and make the water only deep enough for the frog to sit in and no be submerged.

[Beardo]

What kind of frog do you have?

An idea just popped into my head, so take it with a grain of salt, but maybe adding some calcium powder to the water you soak the frog in would help a bit? Since they absorb things through their skin perhaps this would be a less stressful method of getting the calcium into the frog? I literally just thought of this, so I have no idea if it would work.....maybe others can chime in with their thoughts.

[GrifTheGreat]

It's not advisable to put the calcium powder in their water source. It can irritate their skin, and it is harder to control the dosage. You can buy liquid calcium. I believe ZooMed makes some. The liquid calcium can be mixed in the water and will give you exact instructions on the proper calcium/water ratio. You can also get ZooMed's Reptisafe water conditioner which has calcium and electrolytes. I hope your frog recovers soon. Please keep us posted.

[Beardo]

Thats interesting that something that woukd irritate their skin is safe for them to ingest. Seeing as the mouth and GI tract is basically nothing but mucus membranes, one would assume if it irritates the skin it would irritate their internal membranes since with frogs there is not as big a difference as with more "dry" species like mammals.

I also doubt anybody doses the amount of powder used when they dust the prey items either.....has anybody here actually tried the method I described above? Just curious what the results were if so.