White will not eat and tries to escape

[EZweasel]

I have had my white's tree frog for about a year. Just recently he has been acting very funny. He has almost stopped eating, lost a little weight, and when the lights go off at night he really tries to escape the terrarium, always climbing near the top and pushing his head against the roof of the cage and the glass. I also seen that he had an incomplete shed. Any ideas?

[DonLisk]

Hi EZ, I would provide a little more info such as size of enclosure, temps day and night, humidity, or even some pics to help give suggestions.

[Kurt]

He may have outgrown his enclosure.

[EZweasel]

He may have outgrown his enclosure.

He really isn't that big and the tank is an 18x18 terrarium.. I have him by himself now in a seperate tank. What's interesting is that he is putting off an odor. he stinks up the tank. The tank he was in stunk before I movied him out of it and now it smells fine.

[Leefrogs]

Well it's really hard to tell what's going on with no discriptions!!! And frogs don't smell, cages do. Probably, after leaving cage open to air out, smell dissipated. Although moss has anti bacterial properties when left too moist it will mold and rot. If u have standing water in your viv and poor airflow u will have toxins build up in air of viv. You need to tell us your cleaning reginine and frequency, heat, lights, plants, temp, humidity, substrate, drainage, viv lid and Picts would help.

[EZweasel]

Well it's really hard to tell what's going on with no discriptions!!! And frogs don't smell, cages do. Probably, after leaving cage open to air out, smell dissipated. Although moss has anti bacterial properties when left too moist it will mold and rot. If u have standing water in your viv and poor airflow u will have toxins build up in air of viv. You need to tell us your cleaning reginine and frequency, heat, lights, plants, temp, humidity, substrate, drainage, viv lid and Picts would help.

Tank is an 18x18 terrarium with a water dish that gets changed daily, Coconut subtrate with moss topping, 12 hours of UV daily and twelve hours of darkness, humidity is about 75 during the day and at night..

Anyways, I have bad news and good news. I believe my frog was having early signs of red leg desiese. Luckily enough, I think I caught it early enough to save him. He is strating to eat once again, not trying to escape his cage anymore, and looks to be in perfect health (skin color etc.). Thank you for all of the support.

[gtr319]

@ EZ: what are the signs of red leg? I think my WTF is doing the same thing as yours, and her belly and is some what red, but there are no open wounds and all... and she wasn't going for the crickets, i did not know whether it is the new substrate I put in or what.. please give me a pointer... thx~

And you mention shed, I saw Marshy on the floor, with trails of glue like stuff on glass. She also have a brief 5 minutes thing where she looked like she is barfing (like when we are drunk and all), but there is nothing coming out from the front nor the back... should I be concern???