HELP: Budgetts prolapse...!

[toxxxickitten]

I came home this morning and found Sharky had, what seems to me to be a prolapse! I've never had this happen before (well, this is the first time I've kept this species) and have no idea what to do! He doesn't have much of his intestines sticking out...but I need to know what to do before something bad happens to him!

[Ra]

im not sure but i think it involved applying honey water to the butthole of the animal with a q-tip. A quick search for prolapse on the forum should give ya some good advice.

...ok, found a better one. soak the frog in a sugar water solution, preferably with honey, for a couple hours. This is in the case that it was caused by straining out a monster turd or an impaction (hope ya dont use gravel or rocks, they can eat pretty big rocks)

If there is reason to beleive that it is protozoan related, then use a unflavored pedialyte solution to soak in.

If that doesnt cause the animals anal wall to retract and suck the guts back inside its butthole, see a vet.

[mpmistr]

Prolapse is a sign of a diet that is very lacking in calcium.. the pelvis bone weakens and it does not hold in the intestines properly.

[Ra]

Prolapse is a sign of a diet that is very lacking in calcium.. the pelvis bone weakens and it does not hold in the intestines properly.

Thats not entirely accurate, it can happen from taking a massive deuce, from having an impaction, or even from intestinal parasites. Ive never heard of it being MBD related.

Unless the frog shows other signs of MBD, such as misshapen jaw, legs, back or yes, pelvis, then I doubt its a MBD related prolapse.

On a side note, at least a small prolapse is fixable. My Budgetts Frog has a hernia which probably wont harm it, but i have no where to take it to get surgery done.

If you got rocks in the terrarium, take them out. If you are feeding the frog huge meals, try smaller food items. If his poops are runny, get a fecal test done.

[GrifTheGreat]

Prepare a bath of Luke warm de-chlorinated water with 4 drops of honey dissolved in the bath. Soak for 20 minutes or until swelling recedes. You can use a Q-tip to gently place the prolapse back in when swelling has receded.

[Ra]

I'd like to play devils advocate here and entertain the possibility of a calcium deficiency.
I realize that it can be hard to administer calcium supllements to an aquatic frog, so what do you feed your frog? Do you use supllements?

[arielgasca420]

Prepare a bath of Luke warm de-chlorinated water with 4 drops of honey dissolved in the bath. Soak for 20 minutes or until swelling recedes. You can use a Q-tip to gently place the prolapse back in when swelling has receded.

just a few questions on the honey bath; can I use raw honey? and would it benefit the frog at all to do this bath soak when there is nothing wrong?

[mpmistr]

Not saying that lack of calcium is only one of the possible causes, probably one of many like you're pointed out.

[toxxxickitten]

Thanks everyone for the replies! I thought I remembered reading about they honey soaks. I will try that and see if it helps him.

I just recently removed his rocks. They were pond rocks...the same size as him, if not bigger. I also took out his filter because the splashing of the water at night was driving me insane. So, I replaced that with a bubbler. The only other thing in his enclosure are two pieces of drift wood he favors hiding under.

I feed him crickets, dubia roaches & nightcrawlers. I do dust his items and tong feed him. He jumps out of the water to grab his food, so it doesn't wash off in the water. If I mixed some of the calcium powder in the water would it help any...?