Frog spiting up "goo"-Please help

[ratty]

My sister has a western clawed frog, and just two days ago we discovered a bulge in his stomach that we think is a piece of gravel. I read some advice on this form about feeding soft foods to frogs who had eaten rocks, so I gave him some brine shrimp with spirulina . But today as we we doing a water change, the frog started to throw up a gooey, almost hairlike substance. Allot of it. Then he ate it again. Can someone tell me what happened and what we should do to save owr frog? I'm pretty worried about him.
Edit: (just found out it might be the frogs shed skin)

[Frogman1031]

Welcome to frog forum! Impaction is a common problem. You should take your frog to the vet ASAP if you can and definitely get rid of that gravel. You might also want to check for a fungal infection just to be on the safe side.

[mpmistr]

My sister has a western clawed frog, and just two days ago we discovered a bulge in his stomach that we think is a piece of gravel. I read some advice on this form about feeding soft foods to frogs who had eaten rocks, so I gave him some brine shrimp with spirulina . But today as we we doing a water change, the frog started to throw up a gooey, almost hairlike substance. Allot of it. Then he ate it again. Can someone tell me what happened and what we should do to save owr frog? I'm pretty worried about him.
Edit: (just found out it might be the frogs shed skin)

This really sounds like skin shedding. Did it look like this? [YouTube Video]

About the lump in the stomach.. have a picture? Some times when these frogs eat they have a lump in the stomach, doesn't mean it is gravel. My experience has been that ACF are pretty good at knowing what is food and what is not food and spitting out foriegn objects. That being said, if you are using gravel I would switch it out a light covering of sand or a bare tank bottom. Large pebbles work but in my opinion, these tend to become uneaten food traps, very hard to keep clean. I use a fine, smooth, aquarium sand myself.

[ratty]

This really sounds like skin shedding. Did it look like this? [YouTube Video]

About the lump in the stomach.. have a picture? Some times when these frogs eat they have a lump in the stomach, doesn't mean it is gravel. My experience has been that ACF are pretty good at knowing what is food and what is not food and spitting out foriegn objects. That being said, if you are using gravel I would switch it out a light covering of sand or a bare tank bottom. Large pebbles work but in my opinion, these tend to become uneaten food traps, very hard to keep clean. I use a fine, smooth, aquarium sand myself.

Yes, it looks like he was just eating his shed skin. Thank you for linking me to that video.
Here is a picture of the frog.

The lump in his belly is really tiny, but it sticks out from the side and seems to be weighting him down.

[mpmistr]

Could you circle where the bump is on the image? I cannot distinguish it. Also I notice this tank has more gravel, did you remove it after the fact?

I am also curious as to the diet, this (male?) frog seems rather thin for a x. tropicalis.

[ratty]

you can kind of see that he has a small lump in his side.

Owr frog is a Silurana tropicalis, and we feed him dried bloodworms once a day

[mpmistr]

Is that his permanment enclosure? If so it is woefully too small to a house any type of clawed frog, even for a Silurana Tropicalis (which yes is smaller than X. Laevis) they need 10 gallons minimum. A 10 gallon aquarium is typically under $15.

Freeze dried foods ate terrible for clawed frogs, I would stop feeding them immediately and feed him something like nightcrawlers. These can be purchased for $3.25/18 large worms.

To be perfectly straight forward with you, his frog is emaciated and is being fed an inadequate diet.

[Frogman1031]

You could try cutting up the night crawlers and offering them in small pieces. Bloodworms may be to small but they are worth a try.


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