Loose stools?

[GrifTheGreat]

This is a pic I took yesterday of a stool I found outside the water bowl. It's just that stools like these as compared to the solid ones from my Ornate that eats the same things, then the fact that his eating aggressiveness slowed down along with his appetite for a couple of days made me worried. I'm just going to feed it a pinkie like a friend suggested to make sure the poop comes out solid.

Well Grif, you were the first person to recommend me a fecal

First off fecals are always recomended especially if your frog has never had one. Parasites and bacteria cannot always be seen by the naked eye hense why I recomended the fecal. If you are this worried then there is really only two things to do.

Get a fecal and eliminate all possibilities of a internal parasite or bacterial infection or 2 take the new thoughts on the matter and let it be. Either way ifnyou have not done the first suggestion of having fecals done then you must not really believe something is wrong and are just panicing over nothing. I gave you advice and you chose not to accept it and take others advice. Don't call me out because you didn't take the advice I recomended without photo evidence to back it up like now.

No matter what anyone says here. Having a fecal exam performed should always be done on a frog that you feel is acting strangely or a new frog period. Better to waste money on a clean bill of health than wait and spend hundreds on a sick frog after its too late.

[NialR35]

Woah, no need to be so hostile. I was not calling you out, hence the happy face I meant it as a joke.

Also, I never discarded the idea of getting a fecal done at all.

[GrifTheGreat]

Woah, no need to be so hostile. I was not calling you out, hence the happy face I meant it as a joke.

Also, I never discarded the idea of getting a fecal done at all.

Ok then.

There will always be different opinions, BUT if you are really this worried that you have a thread that is nearly starting two pages about the same problem that may or may not be there it would be easy to just take that fecal sample in and rule out any further thought of something causing the frog to be sick would it not?

You can take everyones opinion here against a fecal and them be wrong and the frog pay the price or you can have the fecal done and be at ease. It is a simple matter.

Sorry about the hostile post. Sometimes these things can be frustrating.

[Lija]

Sorry about the hostile post. Sometimes these things can be frustrating.

lol we all have our moments

all right since it is all peace, love and rainbows
Nial, look, the less you worry the better. I know very well and first hand that it is easier said then done. the poop looks just fine.
i don't monitor when they poop or how they poop, i track their weight ( once a month) and only because i do it for my other animals, so i might as well do everybody, also i track their feeding, dusting, substrate changes.
on a daily basis i look for everything out of ordinary, how they feel, if they bloated, if they refuse to eat for longer periods, if they seem not their normal themselves.
as Grif said they have an ability to pick up on your emotions and stress, gosh i have no idea how, but they do. i had problems feeding cornuta until my hubby started doing it, he is way calmer and laid back person then me lol and cornuta eats for him, but not for me, i'm just getting screaming sessions if i do anything to its tank. last time i changed its water the little monster got out of a hide and yelled at me....

[NialR35]

LOL@ Lija. That is hilarious.

But yea maybe I'm over stressing it but you made a great point that as long as the frog grows and eats properly then its doing good.

I also track their feeding/dusting/poop/substrate patterns because I have a bad memory

[NialR35]

Well after seeing his poops back in shape (literally), with the typical capsule-looking shape I did not do a fecal but recently( last two days) they started being lose again( brown color but no shape at all, with some mucus) I recently have been feeding in the water for the past 5 days so I was wondering if this can cause that too because he seems to swallow water when I feed him in his water bowl.

I'm going to do a fecal this week because I'm tired of this and I'm starting to get this gut feeling that something might be a bit off even though he still eats like crazy, but I was wondering if the recent "feeding in the water bowl" technique (because he does not want to eat from tongs anymore but eats aggressively when I drop the worms in the water) has anything to do with this.....Any thoughts?