Geriatric White's Tree Frog

[Archeopterix]

Every time I have used neosporin with an amphibian, I have lost that amphibian.

Yeah you would think plain old white flour and wter would make a better styptic powder, since it has an antibacterial property and acts as a good clotting agent.

I will phone the herp vet first thing tomorrow. Wish me luck that I can afford the bill.

Edit: is says that redleg is infectous, but Timmy hasn't had contact with other frogs in over a decade, unless it can be transferred somehow via crickets. I hope I don't have to start raising cricktes, man they are smelly even in the best conditions. I've raised preying mantises and hatched luna moths and and so on when i worked in a lab, that was fun.

[Kurt]

My bill was around $65 today and that was for three animals.

[into]

My bill was around $65 today and that was for three animals.

Is that about average? under $100? I was raised in a family where vet was never an option. we had a cat with a broken leg when I was a kid and my father put him outside! He survived and stuck around... with a backwards leg.

[Kurt]

Yeah, thats around average for me.

[Archeopterix]

Yeah, thats around average for me.

I'm expecting it to be much higher. My macaw has a light upper resprtory infection and it was $260+ meds. I'm hoping it won't be over $100. Exotic vets are expensie up here in Alberta.

I just checked on timmy and his breathing seems very rapid compared to normal. I hope he isn't in pain. Maybe I should spray some rain in his house.

[Archeopterix]

Well I gave timmy a spray with some distilled water and he came out of the coocnut house and the red is almost gone!


(Sorry about the poor focus, the glasss was a bit misty)

What I did was:

-I scrubbed and chlorine bleached all his big shale rocks and rinced the gravel inder the tap in a pail till it rinsed perfectly clear (as opposed to the usual aquarium syphon style of gravel cleaning)

-I threw away all the old base substrate (potting soil in stockings) and rplaces it with styrofoam and aquarium sponge

-cleaned the fake plants and his coconut house and glass with vinager

-then I rinsed rinsed evereything and gave him this stuff called "Stress coat" in his water that removed chlorine also has aloe vera in it to make his skin all youthful and pretty. And it did!

I will keep an eye on him tomorrow and see if he still needs a vet. What a remarkable change.

[John]

That's good news. I hope he lives forever .

[Kurt]

He does look a little better.

[Ebony]

Archeopterix...Im very sorry your frog is sick. At that age he is very precious. I wish you and your frog the best of luck.

[John]

Prices really depend on the vet. Kurt seems to have a decent human being for a vet - in the US such vets are rare.

[Hannah Wilbanks]

I am very sorry that Timmy is sick! I wish he and you luck on helping him feel better. He is very special to have lived so many years.