Quote Originally Posted by Lija View Post
I gotta stop you right there.
The best gut load for crickets is natural - carrots, oranges, lettice, and so on. There are a lot of commercially made gutload products, by different brands, each of them advertized as being the best, nothing special needed and so on. While this definately a convinience, by any means this is no better then natural feed and the claims that you dont need any products for dusting is just simply not true. Its sad actually that people believe these things and then we see so many cases where clients bring patients in, and starting conversation with “pet store people said” or “the package said”, etc.
Even buying dusting products its very important to follow exp dates, and usem them in moderation and appropriate ones. Say you cant use multivitamins every time.
Gutloaded crickets by any definition is this frogs problem, vet would be the best bet, but depending on a cause the prognosis could be sad.
So, I did my best trying to take pictures and I figured I would just take pictures of all of my frogs because I'm starting to go mad with worry. Again, I apologize that these pictures aren't great quality (the tiny black specs are just my front camera because the glass around it was broken.) I feel bad because I'm also having difficulty telling them apart other than their sizes :/ I decided to give each of them a warm soak (I've read that these can help if there are blockages). I noticed afterwards that one of them did poop but it was more of a light brown/clear liquid. I found another one of them this morning pooping but this time it was a dark brown, almost black liquid :/ I have only had them for a little over a month now. I feed them about 2 or 3 times a week with crickets dusted in Rep-Cal Herptivite w/beta carotene and Rep-Cal Phosphorus free calcium with Vit.D3. I fed them two days ago, all of them ate really well except for one which is the one that was leaking the dark brown liquid this morning. I got them from a breeder at the New England reptile expo and have had trouble contacting the breeder since then. She didn't have a name at her booth or any contact cards. I feel so stupid but I honestly just got really excited in the moment and didn't think to ask for her contact info if I had any problems or further questions.