Quote Originally Posted by wesleybrouwer View Post
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.