Help: Injured Bullfrog Care

[Heatheranne]

You could get a smooth/safe artificial plant.

[Pleasantly]

Pickle Banjo is continuing to do really well. Call me crazy, but I swear to you, he starts croaking when I play my ukulele. He's done it several times now, and once, he even stopped when I stopped and started again when I did.

His wounds seem to be improving, especially the toe. It almost looks as though the toe is healing like he might not lose it.

Today


2 days ago

[Heatheranne]

Wow! This is remarkable! He looks great .

[Pleasantly]

Wow! This is remarkable! He looks great .

He looks even better today! I took more pics, but don't know how interested the people here are to see them. He is healing so fast now, you can see a difference in just 1-2 days. He's such a joy and watching him heal more everyday has been such a wonderful experience.

[Heatheranne]

We love pictures .

[Snappi13]

We love pictures .

I'll second that. I think it's safe to say no one here will tell you not to post a pic



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[Pleasantly]

We love pictures .

I'll second that. I think it's safe to say no one here will tell you not to post a pic
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Ok, here are more pics! He still calls every day around 11 am and again around 8pm. We still get such a kick out of it. He also calls sometimes in the middle of the day if I play the uke

2 days ago


Today

[Snappi13]

Wow he has healed very nicely I agree with you. What a nice transformation! He's looking happy and healthy! Or should I say hoppy


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[Pleasantly]

Pickle Banjo is still doing great! It looks like the skin is trying to grow over the broken bone in his toe. His knee is completely healed. Here he is today...

[Snappi13]

What a wonderful recovery!


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[Pleasantly]

Pickle Banjo is still in quarantine being treated, and he's still doing great! I have a question though...he has developed little black marks on his face, right by his nostrils. I've never noticed them until now because they are suddenly much wider and darker and caught my attention. Looking back on pics, I can see they slowly began forming, it seems. Can anyone tell me what they are or what they might be causing them? Thank you!

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Probably nose rub. Time to Upgrade his tank size. Nose rub is when they rub their faces, trying to get out/get to something. Typically large or very active frogs get it. Typically Rana/Lithobates frogs, such as Pickle Banjo. Put some Neosporin without painkillers, and it should go away, but make sure it does, or he could get infected with diseases. It should go away when he has a larger tank as well

[Pleasantly]

Probably nose rub. Time to Upgrade his tank size. Nose rub is when they rub their faces, trying to get out/get to something. Typically large or very active frogs get it. Typically Rana/Lithobates frogs, such as Pickle Banjo Put some Neosporin without painkillers, and it should go away, but make sure it does, or he could get infected with diseases. It should go away when he has a larger tank as well

Thank you for this information! Looking back on pics, it seems he started developing it when I took the plant out of his holding tank for quarantine. Poor guy. I hope to have him in his big tank within the next couple of days.

[Pleasantly]

So Pickle Banjo is now in his new viv. I've never built one before and I had to rush this one a lot more than I would've liked to since he was just in a little container on the kitchen counter for over a month. I chose not to do a foam stuff background because I think he needs as much room as possible and this is only a 33 gallon tank. I also chose not to do a false bottom because I don't plan on moving the viv at all. I'd love to create a 55 gallon paludarium for him sometime in the near future though.


Here is the breakdown of his current viv:


33 gallon aquarium (received an old one from a cousin. Gave it a little makeover with a sharpie )
Tetra repofilter (nothing fancy, just something cheap to clean his water for now).
Temp and Humidity gauges (I didn't put those there, they were already on the tank and stuck on there good).
River rock and sand substrate
Springtails
Lighting is probably not really sufficient, but it's what I could do for now (fluorescent daylight bulb).
Driftwood
Large rocks
Plants:
*Oriental sword
*Bunch plant (no idea what the actual name is).
*Salvinia
*Frog moss
*Sagittaria Subulata
*Utricularia Graninifolia (I understand this to be difficult to grow. Just figured I'd give it a try).

As for his wounds, they are still healing well and I got his supplements. I think we are all set for the most part (for now).

[Snappi13]

New enclosure looks nice. I'm so glad to see pickle banjo is thriving. [emoji196]


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[Cliygh and Mia 2]

If you don't mind me picking your brain, what do you feed pickle banjo?

[Pleasantly]

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[Pleasantly]

New enclosure looks nice. I'm so glad to see pickle banjo is thriving. [emoji196]Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you. The water is much clearer now, so it's really fun to just sit and stare at

He seems to be thriving for sure and now in his new enclosure, he's acting more like a wild frog. As an example, there was a time when he was sitting up high on his log and I accidentally startled him and he dove down off of it in a flash and burrowed himself in the sand. He stayed down there all hunched in the sand for about 5 mins, then swam up. Watching him swim is also really fun. I think he likes his new home.

If you don't mind me picking your brain, what do you feed pickle banjo?

I just feed him crickets so far. I was thinking about getting him some frozen baby mice to feed on occasion. I'd assume when you give something like that, they won't need crickets for a couple days after?

I received his supplements and gave him a cricket dusted with them (aka, dropped into a baby food jar with supplements in it to "dust" it).

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

I think the best feeder is night crawlers, because they have more calcium naturally than crickets, think of it like eating low-fat chips or a salad, the salad is better for you. Here is a handy article that goes into focus into feeders. (it is designed for salamander and newt keepers though) http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/foods.shtml

[Heatheranne]

Even better would be to alternate crickets and night crawlers. Balanced diet .