Opinions needed on medical issue

[Axqu]

Could be early-stage MBD. Are you dusting your feeders with calcium and vitamins?

[butchblues]

Could be early-stage MBD. Are you dusting your feeders with calcium and vitamins?

Yes, I dust with Repcal with D3, herptivite and repashy's vitamin a. I dust calcium with every feeding except one day a week where I use the multivitamin.

[Axqu]

Yes, I dust with Repcal with D3, herptivite and repashy's vitamin a. I dust calcium with every feeding except one day a week where I use the multivitamin.

Probably not MBD then assuming your toads eat the feeders right away. I'm assuming you're using dechlorinator for the water you use when you mist the enclosure? Letting it sit out lets chlorine gas off but chloramines won't gas off and they can kill just as easily as chlorine can. You might check your water company's website; sometimes there're extra chemicals that get into the water that they don't announce on the news because it doesn't impact human consumption but it might impact your frogs. Stuff like that is known to impact reef fishtanks all the time. Also, do you have copper pipes in your house? What time of day do you normally change their water? If you have fresh copper pipes that haven't had time to oxidize yet, and you change their water in the morning when the water has been sitting in the pipes all night with no movement, you could have higher copper content in your water. A lot of frogs and toads are sensitive to copper.

[butchblues]

I change their water around 11-1pm usually with dechlorinated tap water that I have prepared in a jug (I use reptisafe), I refill the jug maybe once or twice a week. I do believe we have copper pipes and the bathroom was renovated a few years ago. I can switch to reverse osmosis just to be safe, but I will have to order something to add minerals back.

[Axqu]

I change their water around 11-1pm usually with dechlorinated tap water that I have prepared in a jug (I use reptisafe), I refill the jug maybe once or twice a week. I do believe we have copper pipes and the bathroom was renovated a few years ago. I can switch to reverse osmosis just to be safe, but I will have to order something to add minerals back.

I've had good success dusting feeders, but there's no harm in gutloading as well, as long as you keep the animal protein down like you said. I feed my dubias a variety of fresh veggies as well as a dusting schedule. Try the RO + added minerals thing and see if it works. If the bathroom was recently renovated I'd bet the copper has something to do with it. I'd also keep a little remineralized RO on hand in case of emergencies. If your toadie seizes again, try soaking in the remineralized RO water (monitored of course to prevent drowning). That'll help all the toxins leach out of its body if it got poisoned.