Whites Tree Frog in trouble..Please help!

[Heatheranne]

Lisa, you'll have to force feed. Pull the head and legs off the cricket. Lightly dust with calcium with vitamin D 3 powder. Pick your baby up with a paper towel moistened with lukewarm dechlorinated water and gently wrap the towel around him like a swaddle, but not tightly. Very carefully open his mouth with a soft baby spoon or carefully with your pointer finger nail (with nonpowdered gloves on). Do not cut him. As he opens his/her mouth, slide the corner of a qtip into the side of his mouth to keep it open just enough to put the cricket in. Carefully put the cricket into his mouth. Do not choke him...put it in a bit so he feels it on his tongue, and try to hold it in a second or two so he does not push it back out. A cut piece of worm would work great also.

He needs some food and he really needs the calcium with vitamin D3. We need to get some nutrition into him and we need to prevent MBD.

Give it a try and see what you can do. Just be calm and patient. It works best if someone can hand you the qtip and food.

Great job so far!

[xXxHeavenxXx]

I will try again with the force feeding. We have the powder and everything so we will kill that last cricket in his cage and try that one. I feel like such a failure that I cant get his mouth open. trying to give it to him in between the clicking is not working. We have not tried a baby spoon or my nail so maybe that will work. We will go out to walmart to get those things shortly.

[xXxHeavenxXx]

my nail seemed to work. I can get it open, but I cant get the qtip in. We can probably get the tiny crickets in his mouth this way. the one cricket we had left was a little too big. I couldnt get his mouth open big enough without my finger sliding out of his mouth. Going to try again tomorrow with a new small batch. Wish me luck!