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    IvoryReptiles
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    Default Re: Please Help! Really Concerned!

    Do you supplement? Do you give it vitamins & calcium? The slack jaw may be due to a lack of calcium or it may be that his mouth is irritated.
    You asked for advice and when you got some, you argued it........put a drop of honey in the water for soaking, it will give the frog a bit of energy. The remedy for too wet Samurai food would be to adjust the ratio of powder to water.....or simply add a little powder to it to even out the texture. Simple solution.
    Have you tried feeding earthworms?

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    sarahanita
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    Default Re: Please Help! Really Concerned!

    I didn't argue it, I was asking if they still thought a soak could help given more information, I did give him a soak. I don't supplement calcium because I feed butterworms because they are all I can get in the area. I do a multivitamin powder once a week as well. I obviously know to use less water next time.

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    Default Re: Please Help! Really Concerned!

    Well, if its that young and hasnt eaten "in so long" and you only feed them butter worms and a multivitamin once a week, there are a few strong possibilities here. For one, it probably has a series of very serious nutritional maladies. Frogs that age need to eat every day or two, and need a calcium supplement every other feeding to promote all that bone growth going on. A droopy jaw is a sign of metabolic bone disease.
    You also may have injured its jaw trying to force feed it. how did you pry its mouth open? Ive had to force feed babies, and the response to me sticking the corner of a playing card between their lips was that they opened their mouths rather than having to pry anything. Also, a nutritional malady may have caused the jaw bones and muscles to be weakened, thus furthering the possibility of injury where a healthy frog would have been fine.
    Having sticky food stuck in its mouth for two days probably didnt help the situation. But, a healthy frog should still have been able to swallow it as Ive fed sticky pacman food to my frogs several times.
    Looking at the picture, the shape of the mouth appears injured...what did you pry its mouth open with?

    You cant get nightcrawlers in Canada?

    Pacman food has worked great for my frogs from the get go.

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