Dumpies moving up

[elly]

I have a planted tank set up for my frogs, however, the substrate has a number of chunky things in it. I put down leaf litter, but I know that my sub adult White's likes to try to hide underneath the paper towel. Do you think there's any danger of them getting to the sticks? Should I put down more ground cover fern?

More importantly, my sub adult has been treated unsuccessfully for protozoa. He's currently symptom free, having fairly solid poops, but should I risk moving him to the tank? I don't want to have to redo it.

I know that protozoa is fairly common and not harmful, but when my little frog gets big enough to move in I don't want to expose him to some foreign strain or something. Any ideas?

[irThumper]

I'm going to follow this since the coccidia treatment for my guys doesn't seem to be very successful either (still loose stools) and I'd like to put them in a bigger tank as well (still QT though, with paper towels).

[elly]

maybe it's an unanswerable question?

[Stardust369]

I don't know quite what you're describing as your setup for the substrate.
I have cypress bark as substrate for my WTF and he's fine with it. If you mean that you want to put paper towel over that, I would say weigh it down with a few rocks around the edges so he can't get under.

[deranged chipmunk]

if you already put leaf litter down, no need to worry about the chunks in the abg. how long has frog #1 been having regular poo? are there any issues with frog #2?

[elly]

Frog #1 has had about two solid movements (edit: about 3 weeks), Frog #2 has never had any sign of illness.

[deranged chipmunk]

I would give the first one at least one more clean bowel movement then move it. I wouldn't worry too much about the little guy afterwards. 2 clean bm's are good, but 3 is more consistent.


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[elly]

Well, Bonk is back to having runny poop. I'd hate to give him another round of treatment considering how badly he took the last one, but I don't want the excess protozoa to pass to the other frog.

[Frogfeet123]

Well, Bonk is back to having runny poop. I'd hate to give him another round of treatment considering how badly he took the last one, but I don't want the excess protozoa to pass to the other frog.

Are you sure it was a runny poo ? Sometimes they pee and poo at the same time, i know it seems silly to think that a mistake like that could be made but you never know!


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[elly]

Actually I'm not sure. He's gone once in the water bowl, and once on a leaf, but it looked pretty shapeless the second time.