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    Go get some sleep and give me a poop update tomorrow


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    If she's getting annoyed at you that's a good sign. Especially in a fairly sedentary animal like a Pac.

    After she goes, try feeding just nightcrawlers for a little while. They digest better than any other prey, and are good for frogs prone to impaction. Do you tong-feed? When mine was still hunting her own roaches, she would end up missing and eating a LOT of cocofiber. It ended up with her being very impacted. Check the poo and see what the cocofiber-to-roach ratio looks like. That might be your problem.

    It might be good to continue doing unmedicated soaks daily for a little while after she passes the impaction. If it has gotten to a point that they are starting to go septic from the backup, this will keep them urinating and passing the toxins. Watch for bloating as that's a sign of toxins building up in the system.

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    Alright, just got home from work and Rhino seems a little more symmetrical today. I'm gonna get a warm bath ready and search through her substrate while she's soaking to see if she did the deed.

    She didn't stay in the water since I moved it out from under the light.

    She does tong feed. She eats earth worms in her water dish.
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    Ta Dahhh!!
    Thanks people! She laid this egg last night after I put her back in her dish.

    Thanks again.
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    Congratulation!!! You have a frog turd. I'd pass cigars around, but something tells me that this occation doesn't call for that kind of celebration .


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    Woohoo! That's a good one!


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    Quote Originally Posted by DeeDub View Post
    Ta Dahhh!!
    Thanks people! She laid this egg last night after I put her back in her dish.
    So are you going to try and hatch it or what?

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    looks like he punched out a Grumpy

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    All I know is in the middle of the night I heard "Whooop....Whooop {siren sound}...We've reached DEFCON 5, NEGOTIATIONS HAVE BEGUN, SHES ABOUT TO RELEASE A CHOCOLATE HOSTAGE".... Then I woke up and found that little beauty.

    She actually pushed out two about that size.

    Minimal coco fiber in it, I think maybe I over fed on the roaches. I'm going to change to 1 earth worm a day, and a roach with worm every third. Pinky once a month.

    FYI, I could see the lumps move down the left side of the frog (left side from frogs perspective) into the pelvis and back to the vent. This morning I couldn't see the large bulge (roach like I thought) on the right. So the last tract of intestine before the vent is on the left side of this frog.
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