reptivite with d3 mixed with water

[Bolisnide]

They are green tree frogs. I used water cause he refused food but needed nutrition and calcium. Reptivite with d3 has calcium. Only was using meal worms because I needed to try to get him to eat and as I was at work, I stopped by the closest pet store and they had no crickets. It was a thin solution with mostly water and wouldn't have drowned the meal worms because there wasn't that much spilled. My enclosure is a 55 gallon tank half aquatic. Now only has 2 green tree frogs, 5 fish, and a snail. Enclosure is about 80% humid at about 75 degrees. Full spectrum lighting but more light on aquatic side until now. Conditioned water in aquatic side but I was using unconditioned for occasional mist Until
Yesterday. Coconut husk economic earth mixed with potting soil (un fertilized) normal diet is crickets gut loaded with flickers orange cubes and calcium infused water gel. Last meal I'm unsure of but 2 days or 3 probably. Lots of poop since I had tree frogs, had him around 3 mos (got young) captive bred, occasional moth/fly for treat, I don't handle him cause their skin is sensitive, and it's medium traffic but only from 5:30 pm until about 10 pm. No traffic during the day

I know reptivite has both calcium and d3, but it's not suitable singly. You do need to supplement with a calcium and d3 only powder as well. I don't know about the fish and snail, it could pose a parasite risk? Someone else will need to chime in on that.
As far as your water, if you were previously not treating water for misting, this could also be a problem. Godd you're treating all of the water now.
Everything else seems fine....

[Kristenmarie211]

Well both the crickets food and water had calcium too

[Bolisnide]

I don't think lack of calcium is the issue here, or at least the cause of death. Nor do I believe it was the reptivite...
But, even though you are gut loading the crickets, you still need to dust with calcium.

Crickets should be gut loaded (like you are currently doing), and dusted. Calcium with d3, and multi0vitamin.

[Kristenmarie211]

I didn't dust them until yesterday for the first time. Seems to be ok when the reptivite is dry but getting it wet seemed to change it somehow

[Mentat]

Hi Kristen! This might be one of those events that are hard to pinpoint down to a specific cause. You could repeat the ReptiviteD3 water (dechlorinated or use tank water) mix on the mealworms and see what happens to them. Obviously we are not going to experiment with the frogs. I don't feed pinced worms to my frogs, only earthworms and Dubia. The former are excellent for dusted feedings because the supplements stick to their bodies real well. Good luck !

[Bolisnide]

I agree with Carlos. Sometimes mysterious things happen?
Can you post a picture of the frogs and the enclosure?

[Kristenmarie211]

Thanks guys for responding :-)

[DVirginiana]

Sorry for your frog's death This may sound like a silly question... But did you mix the reptivite and water and try to feed that to the frog by itself as a sort of supplement? I've heard of calcium overdoses causing seizures in frogs before. I'm probably misreading that though :P

Hm... This is almost definitely not the cause for the frog's death, but you may want to consider removing the snail for both its sake and the remaining frogs. Snails and frogs both secrete mucous and toxins from their skin that could be irritating. They also absorb chemicals through the skin very easily. Even if they live together in the wild, they wouldn't be as likely to come into contact with these toxins on a regular basis (thinking of a story where someone was having problems partly due to housing a giant land snail in a tank with a frog.)

Also, can you post a picture of your tank? It sounds like it'd be interesting looking.

[guilletto]

Damn! I have just bought Reptivite with D3 alone because prospect said it included Calcium! Are you sure that it isn't ok?

I know reptivite has both calcium and d3, but it's not suitable singly. You do need to supplement with a calcium and d3 only powder as well. I don't know about the fish and snail, it could pose a parasite risk? Someone else will need to chime in on that.
As far as your water, if you were previously not treating water for misting, this could also be a problem. Godd you're treating all of the water now.
Everything else seems fine....