Quote Originally Posted by Heatheranne View Post
Hi Kimmy,

Your frog is still sick . The patterns on his skin are indicative of an infection.

Perhaps you can call your local vet and ask if they will prescribe Metronidazole. It is gentler than Baytril and often works well. I recovered 3 of mine on Metro. I would also use SSD cream applied daily to his skin.

Another option is to call and email Dr.Frye. He will sometimes mail the medications to you. He helped me with all of mine who are healthy again since. Your frog needs treated soon.

Now that he is not eating he will not have much energy to fight back. You'll need to feed him. I would use reptaboost daily until he eats or gently force feed.

dr.frye.vetatmilan@gmail.com

(734) 439-2273 Dr. Frye's office #

Good luck and please keep us posted!

(P.S. Dr. Frye helped me heal by babies I took in as an adoption bc they were so sick. They were dehydrated, not eating, and infected. I did have to soak them and force feed them for a week and a half or so.)

Hey Heatheranne

We brought Yoshi down to our local vet today, he had never even heard of a red eyed tree frog before so we went in using your advice. We told him all the symptoms and what we thought was wrong with him. He prescribed us a dilute solution of 2.5% oral Baytril. He told us to dilute this even further , 0.2ml per 100ml. He told us the best way to administer this was to drop it onto his skin or to make up a solution and to spray him with it.
He also gave us a dilute solution of Flagyl (Metronidazole). This has to be administered as is (0.02ml of an already dilute solution) with food or water orally.


How would you suggest force feeding him as he is very delicate and I can't picture him being able to swallow. The vet also gave a soft plastic tip syringe for administration directly into his mouth.

When we brought him back from the vet we mixed up the baytril solution as we weren't sure about the flagyl. We dropped a few drops all over his body to make sure we covered him. He is in a faunarium at the minute wrapped in a towel with a heat mat. His neon spots were coming back but this is probably due to the humidity in the box. We hope that the baytril will help but we are more concerned about how to administer the Flagyl as this will need to be given on a course (once daily for 5 -7 days)