HELP! Albino swallowed a floating fake weed!

[mateosbaby]

She can't seem to spit it back out. The dummy thought it was real food and refused to spit it out before she swallowed the entire thing. Trying to help only scared her and made her swallow it the rest of the way. Can they throw up??? What can I do for her??? It's next to impossible to catch her. Please help!!!

[John]

There's not a heck of a lot you can do for the frog I'm afraid - it can regurgitate what it swallows but it may not be able to regurgitate this. You really just have to wait and see I'm afraid.

[mateosbaby]

I was afraid of that. She's still swimming around this morning. She did just try to eat, of course, it was a rock that a fish spit out at her. But at least she's trying. Would this thing make her digestion slow down or stop? On this same subject, she was looking a little thin (see my other post somewhere on down the line). Could she have swallowed something else that may have affected her eating?

BTW, are albinos blind, by any chance, or did she maybe go blind? She runs into things an awful lot, and lunges at fish tails occasionally (the fish are too big for her to eat). I wonder if that's why she goes for "odd" things to try to eat sometimes, and maybe why she's thin. She does do well "hunting," though, when I drop shrimp pellets right around her, she grabs them up 2 or 3 at a time. However, I rarely see her scavenging. She spooks easily, as well. I have a brown Clawed frog, as well, and she seems much "smarter," especially in the last few months - fat, scavenges, hunts, doesn't run into things, etc.

[tgampper]

You can feed your frog soft foods, like frozen bloodworms or krill. They may have a "laxative" effect and hopefully the plastic plant will pass through. Pica is a pattern of eating non-food materials and Xenopus, being voracious feeders, will ingest just about anything.

It is a definite myth that albino frogs are blind, unless there is some medical condition or injury to the eyes.

[bntz]

Actually I put some real plant in Clawed frog's tank but it always destroy the plant. So I never put any plant in it even plastic, because in my experience this frogs always try too eat anything