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    I'll have to keep an eye on his growth and start logging it. It only drew my attention because I wanted to focus on detail for Keropi and I just so happened to notice that his fingers/toes on his feet were not really symmetrical or identically similar to the other and most pictures I see of frogs their feet look, well. Perfect? i.e. Each Toe is similar in length and matches the other leg's identical toe.

    I'll have to see if I can snap a picture of his feet sometime in the next few days to point it out.
    Unfortunately this is the most recent picture I have of him (in my opinion he looks perfectly healthy) but it doesn't have his feetsies so I can't really point it out in this picture.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lecroixe View Post
    I'll have to keep an eye on his growth and start logging it. It only drew my attention because I wanted to focus on detail for Keropi and I just so happened to notice that his fingers/toes on his feet were not really symmetrical or identically similar to the other and most pictures I see of frogs their feet look, well. Perfect? i.e. Each Toe is similar in length and matches the other leg's identical toe.

    I'll have to see if I can snap a picture of his feet sometime in the next few days to point it out.
    Unfortunately this is the most recent picture I have of him (in my opinion he looks perfectly healthy) but it doesn't have his feetsies so I can't really point it out in this picture.

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    Their toes are only a sign of a issue if they are red, bleeding, turned in and distorted. Them not being symetrical isn't a problem. They sometimes lose digits to their siblings before fully metamorphosing.

    In the picture you posted he looks a little bit underweight. I can tell this from the hip bones being very visible and from his cheeks being slightly sunk in. How often are you feeding him?


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    I feed him every other day at minimum and I generally only feed him the fatter/longer nightcrawlers I find from my purchases from walmart.

    Edit: Got a few pictures with the help of my sister. I'm mostly concerned with just the last two-three pictures.

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    Couldn't find the edit button but as a double note this frog has not been sexed yet either. He doesn't croak or anything but I have never really looked at his feet. Are those nuptial pads? My concerns are primarily from that redness. I checked his belly and I unfortunately couldn't get a picture but I didn't see any particular redness anywhere but those two front feet. His back feet were just a dark brown without any redness as far as I could tell (presumably they are that color from using them to dig his burrows).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lecroixe View Post
    Couldn't find the edit button but as a double note this frog has not been sexed yet either. He doesn't croak or anything but I have never really looked at his feet. Are those nuptial pads? My concerns are primarily from that redness. I checked his belly and I unfortunately couldn't get a picture but I didn't see any particular redness anywhere but those two front feet. His back feet were just a dark brown without any redness as far as I could tell (presumably they are that color from using them to dig his burrows).
    Female. The darkness of the bottom of the feet is normal.


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    Quote Originally Posted by GrifTheGreat View Post
    Female. The darkness of the bottom of the feet is normal.
    Neat Keropi is a she! But is that minor redness on her front feet normal?

    Outside of that I think she's healthy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lecroixe View Post
    I think she's healthy.

    I think so too
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lecroixe View Post
    Neat Keropi is a she! But is that minor redness on her front feet normal?

    Outside of that I think she's healthy.
    You can buy some Melafix and add two drops per 16 ounces of dechlorinated water and bathe the frog in it once per day.


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