Another Big Eye problem

[BigEye]

Unless you have a scale to weigh him, you likely wouldn't notice if he was losing weight. Hard to see frogs that weigh only grams dropping... grams.

I am sympathetic, but I'm going to have to side with everybody else here - just don't get any more pets. Period. If you're not willing to spend money to vet them when they're sick, to get them proper set ups, and to make sure they actually have a proper quality of life, and if your parents aren't willing to help, then don't get them. Animals aren't disposable creatures. They're living beings with feelings that are relying on you to care for them.

I've spent over 1000$ on vet bills for one group of animals. One of them specifically cost 750$ by the time his vet bills were done. What type of animals were this group? Rats. The 750$ one quit breathing on his own late at night, so I rushed him to an animal ER and got him on oxygen. It turned out he had gotten pneumonia somehow. The ER visit was 500$ by itself. I have a cat that showed up abandoned in my yard who has cost me 1100$ in vet bills so far, and he's not even 2 years old yet (he has ulcerative colitis).

I am unemployed currently, and have been for a year (the company I was working for downsized, and I haven't been able to find anything else). Most of these vet bills went on credit cards that I'll probably be paying off until I die. But because I love my animals, and they are my responsibility, I took care of them.

So, I'm going to have to request you learn some responsibility and get some respect for life before buying another animal. This include tarantulas. Those are living creatures too.

I've had some tarantulas for a couple years now, that's insulting.
Your also not answering my questions. You are just calling me irresponsible.
That is whats making me mad. So can someone help me save the frog at least?
Instead of let it die. The vet is out of the question, the time it would take me to save up the frog would be dead.

[artes]

You were told how. He is stressed out. He needs a bigger enclosure with plants to hide in/on/behind. You need to look up a care sheet and make sure he has the correct temperatures and humidity levels. If you have to, you might have to pick up a heater along with the tank. A 20 gallon high tank will cost 40$ at PetCo. The lid should be around 15$. The heater will be around 20-30$. You will need at least 2 blocks of Eco Earth. You will need a large enough pool for him to sit in, but not drown. You will need at least three plants. You can go to Wal-Mart or Lowes and get Ficus or Bromeliads, and a Pothos (or get a fake climbing vine at PetCo, that might be your best bet). If you use plants from those stores, take them home, remove them from the dirt that they are in, and rinse them very well to remove traces of plant food. Hang vine, plant plants, put a pool below one of the plants (not a ficus, they like to drop leaves for no reason - put below the bromeliad on the warm side).

Give him about two days to get used to the enclosure. If you want, use a small ceramic or glass bowl to put in two waxworms. Do not try to feed crickets during this time.

After two days, offer three calcium dusted crickets. If he doesn't eat them in 1 hour, remove the crickets, try again the next day.

[LilyPad]

Everyone here has tried to help you, helping your frog is going to cost money though.

[artes]

And I was so hard on you due to some of your other comments, like how you'd rather spend the money on a new frog, and how you initially said you took the first frog to the vet, then later said your dad wouldn't let you.

There is no free way to fix your frog. You need to fix his enclosure, and then you might still have to take him to the vet if the enclosure/set up fixing doesn't do the trick (although it should).

[BigEye]

I'll try to get money out of my dad to get those, in the meantime,thanks i got pretty worked up there trying to think of clever comebacks

[John]

You've gotten sound advice here. If you can't afford to take the frog to the vet, really there is no shame in that. However, it won't survive in its current state without a vet's intervention and treatment. So please follow the advice from the other people - don't get another frog until you have the resources and have done the research in order to give a good home.