ACF acting weird.. any suggestions?

[MatthewM1]

I too am stumped sounds strange. The dift wood scenario sounds plausible, have you checked it for loose little pieces? Could it be from accidental ingestion of sand?
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[mpmistr]

Not sure, I use caribsea moonlight white sand in my frog tank, it's 0.01mm to 0.03mm grain size, in other words its extremely fine soft sand. I've never worried about it with my frogs and I really doubt it's the cause. Been using that substrate almost a year without a problem.

Driftwood, maybe. I took out the most offending piece of wood from my tank last week since it was getting blue-green algae (I THINK, it was blue-green and it did look like algae so I removed it..) on it and appeared to be rotting IMO.. but again I've had that piece in there for almost a year without any problems and I only removed it because of the blue-green algae it was growing. It tended to 'flake' off little pieces of wood a lot which I had to remove now and then.

I recently did a 50% water change because I took that huge driftwood piece out that was rotting, and I ran a net and sift through the sand for any mulm, excess organics (dead plant matter/poop), and small bits of wood. I do this weekly (though I usually do 25% PWC not 50%) and I always net excess 'stuff' from the sand, since it rests on top of the substrate, it's easy to clean.

My frogs aren't bottom feeders and are fed reptomin (floating) and earthworms by hand.

So again I am really not sure. This frog is the most passive one I own, the other two are bigger and more boisterous and they seem fine.

[Jenste]

Can you possibly take some close up pictures of the frog? Some while doing this motion and some when just stationary? Any redness or tattered shedding going on?

[mpmistr]

He hasn't done it again that I've noticed, took some pics though, he has no redness or tattered shedding.

The stuff on him is just sand, they tend to kick it up a lot.

[SwimminSteve]

I've seen my frogs do this from time to time. I never found out what was causing it, but it never turned into an issue. It could be that whatever he ingested scratched the inside of the mouth and it's irritated. He may feel like there's something in there even if it's only a scratch.

[mpmistr]

You're probably right Steve. I checked him out last night he didn't do it and all my frogs ate a nightcrawler each and they seemed as hungry and active as ever. I guess it was just one of those things.

[Jenste]

For what it's worth, you have some lovely and healthy looking frogs!