Need Help AGAIN, WTF won't...poop.

[Kisa]

I like frogs. I like frogs. I like frogs. (Spins around three times)
Oh man, I was hoping when I opened my eyes I had more frogs.

Has Bruce pooped yet? Hoping so.

Unfortunately he hasn't.

I had my friend catch crickets in tweezers and dropped the mineral oil onto them with the syringe I got from the vet. (It all happened kind of fast so I wasn't able to measure out 8 oz. before my friend had a cricket in his grasp.) I did two crickets, but I didn't want to give Bruce too much so I fed him the third one dry. This morning he's looking bloated, but is otherwise healthy, moving around normally and alert when I wake him up (I do a checkup every morning since I brought him back to the vet to make sure he doesn't get anymore lesions and I also check his eyes to see if the cloudiness is any better or worse) so other than the bloat it's fine.

I think I'm going to wait til tomorrow night when I feed him again and give him a bigger dose if I don't see anything by then. I just hope his tummy isn't hurting.

[wesleybrouwer]

I don't know if i posted the luke warm water bathing around here,
but i also recommend this over purging you're frog.

I learned this trick to get poo for microscopic research on worms or parasites.
If you put the frog into a luke warm bath and let it soak for about 5 mins.
9 out of 10 times they will grant you some material to check upon.
This has always worked out great.

If anything is constipated down there, luke water will help, guaranteed.
It will even help birds or reptiles who have egg binding.

When your'e frog don't like being in the water, just put on a lid so he can't escape,
after all it is for it's own well being. Just make sure the water level is not to high,
so you prevent it from drowning.

If you laxate your'e frog, do remember that this also is a way of dehydration,
this might also be a blow to it's general health.
If you go with the oil, please be carefull not to dehydrate it to much.
A dehydrated frog must be bathed in a salin solution.
The easiest way to get this, is making it yourself, most user-ready solutions have a wrong composition since it is made for humans.

You can make the solution by mixing 1 Liter of water with 5 grams of salt,
some people use 6,5 gram of salt.
This gives you a 5% or 6,5% salin solution.
My regular vet always recommend me the 5% solution since she told me this matches the frogs internal values best.

So i must say, i'll go with Kurt

[Kisa]

I don't know if i posted the luke warm water bathing around here,
but i also recommend this over purging you're frog.

I learned this trick to get poo for microscopic research on worms or parasites.
If you put the frog into a luke warm bath and let it soak for about 5 mins.
9 out of 10 times they will grant you some material to check upon.
This has always worked out great.

If anything is constipated down there, luke water will help, guaranteed.
It will even help birds or reptiles who have egg binding.

When your'e frog don't like being in the water, just put on a lid so he can't escape,
after all it is for it's own well being. Just make sure the water level is not to high,
so you prevent it from drowning.

If you laxate your'e frog, do remember that this also is a way of dehydration,
this might also be a blow to it's general health.
If you go with the oil, please be carefull not to dehydrate it to much.
A dehydrated frog must be bathed in a salin solution.
The easiest way to get this, is making it yourself, most user-ready solutions have a wrong composition since it is made for humans.

You can make the solution by mixing 1 Liter of water with 5 grams of salt,
some people use 6,5 gram of salt.
This gives you a 5% or 6,5% salin solution.
My regular vet always recommend me the 5% solution since she told me this matches the frogs internal values best.

So i must say, i'll go with Kurt

Thank you so much for the detailed reply and instructions, I will follow these is I do not see any progress (By that I mean poop of course...>>) by tomorrow evening.

I used very little oil when feeding him, so I do not think he is in any danger of dehydration, if I do see any symptoms of that I will stop using the oil right away and soak him in the the solution you provided.

I did soak him in luke warm water for what I feel was probably between 3 and 5 minutes and I saw no improvement, which is why I went for the oil instead. But I do believe that soaking him in luke warm water is safer for his overall health and well being, so I will try the soak again. He just gets so flustered when I put him in any degree of water, he used to try and climb out when I had to soak him for the lesions on his leg, and that water was the same temperature as the water I keep in his viv.

Thank you again for your response, and again what I said to Kurt was not meant in a blatantly disrespectful way. I value his opinion, but if he had posted something like this instead of what he did say, I would have responded in much the same way I am responding to you.

I will post an update if I see any progress on Bruce's condition.

Thanks.

[DonLisk]

What plants are in his tank and does he climb into them at times?
Mine poop down into the Bromalaids and Aloe plants all the time and you'd only see it if it builds up.

[Kisa]

What plants are in his tank and does he climb into them at times?
Mine poop down into the Bromalaids and Aloe plants all the time and you'd only see it if it builds up.

Actually there isn't anything he can climb in his tank right now. Since he was sick I took all of his accessories out (aside from his water bowl and log hiding spot) and put paper towels down as substrate to make sure that his viv was clear of any harmful bacteria or fungus. I bought him a brand new viv (That's bigger and fancier) but I am waiting on the final thing to be shipped before i can put it together, so I've just left him in his sick tank for now. (Changing the water and paper towels every other day of course). The paper towels also help me to tell if he's pooped yet, cuz they're obviously easy to see on a white background. XD;

I'm gonna try soaking him tonight, there's still nothing. Maybe I didn't get enough oil on the crickets? If not tomorrow night I'll follow your dosing instructions and cross my fingers. I would've already followed them but my friends got a little ahead of themselves when they were helping me.

I'll let you guys know if anything comes from the soak.