Greetings.

My daughter has an emerald green tree frog "Kiwi" that needs help. We are going to the vet tomorrow but I wanted to check here to see if there was anything we could proactively do to make sure he makes it that long.

A little background:

My daughter saved up her allowance and purchased Kiwi back in September of 2011. He had a little irritation on his nose which healed nicely and he's been a great little pet with no problems. His diet is a few crickets daily (however many he can eat before getting bored) and he's in a 20g aquarium with heating pad, lights, etc that came with a reptile kit she purchased.

About two weeks ago Kiwi developed a skin irritation on his back. We called the pet store where we purchased it and they indicated it might be due to too much handling of him so my daughter minimized handling only for feeding. (we put him in a smaller cricket cage during feedings) We were gone for the last week on vacation (with someone feeding him and changing his water daily) and returned to find him in MUCH worse shape. The skin irritations are now all over his body and what appears to be his tailbone has broken through the skin and is sticking out. He lost a lot of weight while we were on vacation so I'm guessing he doesn't feel like eating. See attached pictures:

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My daughter is in tears to come back to find him in such bad shape. Should we just let him be until we see the vet first thing Monday?

TIA.

--Ed