A Devastating Day for Pyxie Project: Warning Graphic Image

[Mercedesherp]

Jeff,
You may want to consider gastric overload as a potential causitive in this frogs death.
If the stomach of the frog is overly full it can have a significant impact upon normal digestive system function and influence the frogs biological systems ability to process and release the potential toxins potentially generated by this overload.
The reduction of blood flow, and the compression of vital organs because of gastric overload are worthy of your consideration.
It would be nice if you were able to include a link in your posts regarding your pyxie
project for reference.
I would hope that you understand, that in your endeavour to approach a 10" svl animal,
you understand that the entirety of the frogs normal lifespan is needed. ( many years)

Hank

[Jeff Kennedy]

Hi Hank. Yes, we did indeed do our homework on the species prior to taking on this daunting task. We had the misfortune of losing another Pyxie on the second day of the project. This was linked more to the froglet being so small and fragile and was more then likely shipping stress however after we lost him I contacted Kim at The Frog Ranch to go over our set-up with him. He advised that we were spot on and it has been flawless until now. We actually thought that since rearing them past that fragile, froglet stage, we were out of the woods. We were warned by Kim early on to watch the high protein intakes such as worms because the tiny froglet has trouble breaking that down and disposing of it. From Day1 we exercised the 2 day on, 1 day off feeding cycle which allows their body's enough time to process the waste. We remove waste daily from each enclosure so this practice has been working pretty well for us. After this freak occurence, I spoke with Kim again. We went over all of my parameters and our daily care and again, he couldn't find anything wrong or anything that we should be doing different. As far as P17 taking in too much food and not being able to process it, he has taken in a lot more in the past and done just fine. Actually his feeding had slowed down the last several days. It's a tossup right now. Who knows what happen, but I appreciate you taking the time to share the info with me

[EpicFrogMan]

Devastating!! I've never even heard of this with bullfrogs. They usually eat as much as they can and are fine. It had to of been a toxic dubia with parasites or something? something definetly got into his stomach. Wheres the frog autopsy Dr's when you need em. Hit me up Jeff