Quote Originally Posted by froghub View Post
First off all, thank you very much for your answer Grif.
Yes, 100% positive it was blood coming from his nostrils.
Also 100% sure it was from the nostrils and i was checking him out i saw it coming out in both nostrils, so it wasnt an outside bite.
I tongfed him and i fed him the cricket butt first, mouth toward the substrat so if he bitted the frog in the mouth it would have been in the lower side.
It was red like ours. Then it did coagulate very fast and there was a translucid liquid where it had coagulated by the nostrils. I cleaned all out and untill now it did not happen again. Should i be worried about him?
No time for the photo, just had the time to clean him up and check if he was good.
Before he got the blood coming out i've noticed that sometimes he opens his mouth to breath. Now he doesn't do that anymore. Maybe something was stuck in there and he did the blood thing to free the nostrils? Since he was eating something big he could be asfixiating or something and cleaning the nostrils to breath? Not sure if this makes any sense.
Lets say he was full already, and he tried to eat this big cricket last, could that be a problem and cause this blood?
I'll feed the guy again tomorrow, hope it doesn't happen again. I might just kill the crickets before feeding him
Thanks
If his airway were blocked, he would have asphyxiated. Though they can utilize cutaneous respiration, their primary means of obtaining oxygen is through ventilation of the lungs.

They do not breath through their mouths. The yawn like motion of the mouth is to assist in swallowing prey. This is sometimes used in conjunction with depression of the eyes to release the prey from the tongue.

I've never had any discharge blood from their nostrils or have their nostrils obstructed. This is not a natural occurrence.

If he were full and ate too much or too large of prey it could result in a ruptured stomach, but that would have killed him immediately.