Hi everyone,
we have two WTFs that we have had for two months now. Two weeks after picking them up we took them to the vet who after doing a fecal sample treated them for protoza and then dropped the bombshell that they had lung worms, a pretty bad case of it. (He assures me that the amount they had means we brought them home with it, as I was pretty upset that i could have been our fault)
It was decided that we would wait until they got bigger/heavier to start treating them as 1 weighed 9 grams and other 15 grams.
So I started feeding them everyday(on advice of the vet), making sure that I placed the locusts (this is what they were fed in the shop and so they will not entertain crickets) infront of the little one as otherwise the larger one seemed to beat him to it everytime.
Now my problem is that I have to phone the vets with the weights each week. I don't normally handle the frogs and so getting them out for this is starting to stress them to the point that when i open the doors to feed them they go and hide. This isn't a problem for the larger one who is prety good at launching himself across the tank and still catching the food he is going for, but little one isn't so great at this. They are both putting weight on, but now its getting to the point were if you even go near the tank the little one especially will jump away and hide.
I don't want to stress them anymore than I have to but they need weighing so that we can hopefully start treatment soon. I was just wondering if anyone has any ideas/tips to make it less stressful for them?
Thanks in advance.