The little things we do

[DonLisk]

Funny how we take a 20 dollar frog and provide he/she with hundreds of dollars of environment to make it at home. We arrange the home to be humid, warm and aesthetically pleasing. changing water daily, bringing crickets home, and listen to the loose one that are making their way around the home.

I write this because of the "I can't believe I did that" experience I had the other night with one of my Whites Tree Frogs.

While checking on the frogs we (my wife and I) saw that one of the frogs was having a problem finishing going to the bathroom. After a closer examination we saw that this wasn't a normal thing and the poor little guy was trying to force out a piece of Moss that just was cooperating.

We let him go for a few hours hoping he would work this out himself and only found he was just like we found him several hours earlier. My wife was like, you gonna help him or what, and I could only imagine how I was going to do this.
I made an attempt to hold the moss with some long forceps but the frog was not going to participate with this idea.

We let him settle back down and a few hours later I made another attempt.

Holding the piece sticking out I lightly lifted and the lightly pulled down with w twist and the piece slide our. The thing was 5 inches long and 70 percent was inside and stuck in the poor little one. I could almost see the sigh of relief from this frog as he relaxed on the leaf he was holding on so dearly to while I pulled the piece free.

The things we do for these frogs and other pets is just amazing and will be something the wife will grill me on for some time to come.

Am I thinking about removing all this moss substrate? Probably not. I might reduce the amount to only bee half the enclosure instead of all though.

[bshmerlie]

Whites are voracious eaters with big mouthes. After pulling out 5 inches of that moss out of his butt you might want to consider changing out all of the substrate just to be on the safe side. "The things we do for our pets". I'm glad it worked out for him.

[DonLisk]

Whites are voracious eaters with big mouthes. After pulling out 5 inches of that moss out of his butt you might want to consider changing out all of the substrate just to be on the safe side. "The things we do for our pets". I'm glad it worked out for him.

I was sure this would be the right thing to do. I just hate ripping down the enclosure to change out the substrate again. Just did the moss recently, since when I had the coco fiber they always looked like they had microscopic bugs on them and it was just the coco.

Looks like a trip to the pet shop again :-)

This time I think I'll try the plantation soil since it worked nicely in my Red Eye's enclosure.

[bshmerlie]

What about just putting leaf litter on top of it? Could that work? That way you wouldn't have to remove it.

[DonLisk]

That just may work. Never used the stuff but I think it lays pretty flat and could use to cover most of the bottom while leaving some small areas exposed to the moss.

Thanks for the suggestion. :-)

[Rocko]

Might I suggest sheet moss or some equivalent? It looks like mini grass comes in easy to place squares and and it's *not* loose like the other mosses to avoid swallowing. My white's looks clean and contented since I put that down. Plus spot cleaning has been much easier.

[DonLisk]

What about just putting leaf litter on top of it? Could that work? That way you wouldn't have to remove it.

Ordered some Leaf Litter this morning from Josh.
Hoping it gets here Friday and plan to completely redo the substrate in this enclosure this weekend with Plantation Soil, Clay Balls and the Leaf Litter.

If it doesn't get here I'll still redo it and add the litter later on.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

[1beataway]

That's where I bought my leaf litter. Great stuff.

This is the moss I have and I love it: Live Tropical Moss.

Hope the redo goes well, and you never have to do what you did again.