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    Hello all,

    I've recently acquired a red eye tree frog, I keep it in a 10 gal tank with sphagnum moss, a water dish, a few branches, a half log hiding place and a couple plastic plants. I mist her twice a day to keep up the humidity.

    I've had her about a week now and she has been eating crickets well.

    This morning when I checked on her for the morning misting I noticed she kept one of her eyes closed. I'm not sure what if anything I should do.

    I've added 2 pictures, the first one is the frog a couple days ago and the other was taken a little while ago.

    Please help me figure out what is wrong with her eye.

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    If you pick her up ...does she open the eye.

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    Oh no...I'm sos sorry to see your frog has turned ill. She looked so happy and lively in the first picture it's kind of a shock to see her so down in the second...

    I wouldn't know anything about this ailment as I've never encountered it before and don't keep these kinds of frogs, but one of our Moderator's Cheri owns five Red Eyes and I think she may be able to help you.

    If you can't find any possible ailments online I suggest you take her to a vet if it doesn't seem like she's healing...

    I wish you the best of luck and hope it's just a passing irritation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bshmerlie View Post
    If you pick her up ...does she open the eye.
    no, she doesn't but she opens the other one just fine. I have seen her rub her fingers over the eye like it is bothering. The slight swelling under the eye seems to have lessen since this morning.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kisa View Post
    If you can't find any possible ailments online I suggest you take her to a vet if it doesn't seem like she's healing...

    I wish you the best of luck and hope it's just a passing irritation.
    I will definitely take her to the vet if I cannot get it better any other way. Thank you and I too hope it is just a little irritation.

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    Default Re: Red Eye Tree Frog - Eye problem

    It's a good sign that the swelling has gone down, she may have just gotten a piece of something stuck under the eye lid that is irritating her. Don't take my word on this but I believe you can treat eye irritation with a very mild saline solution if you mix it yourself, avoid using anything store bought as this is mixed for human use and can be harmful to frogs. You should look around though before using it in the eye and try to find a good mixture, I've never done this before myself but my vet said I could use that in the eye if I felt it necessary when my frog was sick. But look it up before you do it, I'm not an expert I just want to help in any way I can.

    Is she still eating...? D: That could be a big indication of the problem. We just have to hope it's a minor problem and not an infection, that could become a bigger problem.

    But remember, the eye is one of the quicker healing tissues in the body, at least for humans, so if it is a minor irritation, it should clear up within a couple of days.

    Good information would also be what kind of substrate you have her on, the plants/decorations in her tank, her temp and humidity, and what you feed her and when, this will give us all a better list of problems this could relate to.

    I'll keep my fingers crossed that she gets better. ><
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    I would take her to a vet as soon as you can. Do you know if your frog is wild caught or captive bred? The only things I can think of would be a bite from a cricket which isn't that common but possible. Is there anything in the tank she could have poked herself on.?They do lunge pretty haphazardly as the go for the crickets. If she's wild caught then it opens up options of parasites or other issues. When you get a chance could you post a picture of the enclosure. And post temps and humidity that you are keeping her at.

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    I am unsure whether she is WC or CB, the shop I bought her from was unable to tell me. I do not feed her in her enclosure, I remove her and put her in a plastic container and drop a couple crickets at a time until she seems full (about 5 or 6 small crickets) every day. I do this in the early evening while I mist the tank.

    The temp is around 80°F during the day (I use a ceramic heater) and around 75°F at night, I do not have a humidity gauge in her tank but I do mist her twice a day.

    I did notice when I checked on her tonight that she was shedding so I left her alone, that would explain why she was rubbing at her face. When my geckos or my beardie shed I leave them alone and skip the feeding that day because they will not be bothered.

    I will try to get a picture of her enclosure later tomorrow.

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    You do need a humidity dial in there. My 10 gal lost hummidity like crazy, I'd mist every 3 hours, it swung from 90 to 40 in such a short time. I just decided to plant a false bottom. As it has stabalized hummidity. I had 5 plants in there in pots, and it didn't help, till I planted bottom. Just showing an example of why u need one.

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