White's Tree Frog having trouble with his back legs - advice needed please.

[Heatheranne]

It can be from their home or from their food source. Good luck at the vet! Please keep us updated.

[SongsAboutRainbows]

Thanks for all the support guys hopefully the little guys'll be perky and happier soon.

Few questions about transporting them tomorrow ... we have a reasonably big plastic storage box that we sometimes feed them in, we'll use that to transport them. The journey will be around an hour to get there (and an hour to get home again). It's pretty cold up here right now; around 40F. We need to walk (outside) for about 20minutes in total. I was planning on strapping a hot water bottle to the box and enclosing the whole thing in a thick towel. I'll take a thermometer too, so we can adjust the heating as much as possible. Can you think of any better ways to keep them cosy?

In terms of enclosure, I'll use some coco fibre since they seem to like that, plus a water dish, a vine and some plastic plants.

Hopefully they will sleep during the journey.

[kueluck]

I use a small deli type cup with holes in it with paper towel on the bottom of the container. Make sure the holes are punched from the inside out so the inside is smooth. I then use one of those foot warmer things that people put in their shoes and stick it to the bottom of a insulated bag. Put a wash cloth over the foot warmer since they can get very warm. I put the container in there and just keep and eye on the temps. They stay warm for hours.

[SongsAboutRainbows]

It would be easier to keep a smaller container warm, but wouldn't the frogs get stressed out by being enclosed like that?

[kueluck]

Mine was fine, didn't even change his colors. The container was about 5 inch round and he was in a nice dark, warm, moist place.

[SongsAboutRainbows]

Excellent, we have plastic soup containers we can use that are a little bigger than that.
Thanks

[Sasha]

Good luck Heather. Let us know how it goes.