Bloated Amazon Milk Frog - Can anyone help?

[kipling]

Over the past few days I have noticed my little amazon milk frog has started to look really bloated, seems to only be the abdomen. I initially thought he may have just eaten too much, but having not fed him for a couple of days now it seems there may be a problem. I have another milk frog and he looks fine. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Is there anything I should do? I gave the whole terrarium a good clean out yesterday in case it was anything to do with bacteria. Other than being bloated he hasn't been behaving particularly weirdly, he is still climbing up onto leaves and was bathing in the water dish earlier. Any advice would be great, I've attached a picture so you can see what he looks like now (sorry it seems to be sideways, I don't know how to change it)!

[kipling]

Can anyone help at all? He still doesn't look great, very swollen abdomen. I'm worried about him. Other frog still looks fine, not swollen at all. Please help?

[dart frog dawn]

Are you sure its a male and not a gravid female?


Dawn

[flybyferns]

Hi,
He may have swallowed substrate or could have an intestinal obstruction?
What kind of substrate(s) do you have in the enclosure?
Have you found any poop in the past day or 2?
What are you feeding the frog?
What size is the feeder ?

If you suspect this could be possible, get him into a de-chlorinated water to soak --- try to get him to stay there for quite some time, even if you have to cover the soaking dish to keep him in the water. 30 minutes ( temped water --not cold / not hot...comfortable on when dribbled on your wrist)

Provide a - clean- shallow soaking dish (water should not be above his chin)
Not tap water !
If you do not have amphibian safe water de-chlorinator-get it as soon as you can.
In the meantime use bottled 100% spring water from the market.

Do not feed him until he poops.

Please ..........Keep us posted.

[flybyferns]

kipling,
How's he doing?

[kipling]

Hi Lynn,

Thanks for the reply. Sorry I didn't respond until now, we're in different time zones and I've only just seen this!

I have put the frog in some de-chlorinated shallow water in a separate tub to soak now. It is covered so he can't get out.

I originally had coconut husk as a substrate but the frogs were so tiny and weren't finding their food so I now just have them on layered paper towels until they've grown a bit (I read online somewhere that this was ok whilst they are small - if this is a terrible idea let me know and I'll change it as I have coconut husk).

It is hard to tell if the sick frog is pooping because there are 2 in there. I have found poop but it could well be the other frog who is looking and acting totally normal. They are both around an inch long and I feed them size 2 silent crickets (4-6mm) at the moment.

Dawn - I refer to the frog as 'he' loosely out of habit, because I actually have no idea what sex the frogs are. The only clue I have is that they are both from the same batch of frogs and the sick one has always been slightly smaller than the other one. I only got them 4 months ago and they are my first frogs so I'm still quite new to all this and would not know how to tell if they are male or female! Thanks for the reply though

I'll update later, after the frog has had a soak and is back in the terrarium and relaxed.