Sick red eyed tree frog?

Calebrez · #1 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 12:17 PM

This is princess. I have had her for 2 months. i recently about 4 days ago placed her into the new setup after being quarentine for a few months. Since then she does not sleep on the leaves or glass or vines like the others she sleeps on the gound. I am quite worried. here is a pic of her. any suggestions on what i could do?

and here is my setup a exo terra 18x18x24

sorry about the crooked pic haha

froggsong · #2 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 02:09 PM

She needs more cover. Did she have more plants in her previous setup?

Calebrez · #3 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 02:14 PM

Not really she was in a 10 gallon vert that i used for a quarantine tank. it did have a tall leafy plant with a huge piece of driftwood. Does that help at all?

froggsong · #4 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 03:44 PM

It looks like it may be too open and bare for her. It could be stressing her out. It could be something else entirely, but that's the first thing I'd change. It doesn't look like there are any leaves that will hold her really well, so that might be why she's sleeping on the ground.

Calebrez · #5 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 04:25 PM

That sounds like a good place to start. What kind of big leafed plants would be good to put in there?

froggsong · #6 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 04:29 PM

Well, you might try looking for a pothos with nice big leaves that you could wrap around your vine there in the middle (I'd wrap two or three of the pothos vines around the vine). Or you could find a larger leafed deiffenbachia. Other than that, I'm not sure off the top of my head atm... Sorry, I've got a headache from heck...

Calebrez · #7 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 04:32 PM

i never thought of wrapping a pothos vine around my current vine! haha awesome idea for having the headache from heck lol

Grimm · #8 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 05:42 PM

And make sure to feed her a bunch, she looks to be as thin as my frog that had the prolaps. I'd also try misting all that debris off of her when she wakes up.

Calebrez · #9 (**permalink**) 05-01-2010, 08:35 PM

ok i picked up a large leafed pothos and placed it in there to give her some more cover. She is thin much much thinner than id like. i like fat froggies lol

Calebrez · #10 (**permalink**) 05-04-2010, 05:41 PM

Update! i moved her into my spare tank after putting her into a tupperware container with distilled water for about 3 hours then took off the top and placed it into the tank and let her move as she pleased. I watched her very closely and she turned the right color and after the lights went off she began to explore the cage! i am so relieved! today i got home from work and she is the right color light green and doing well i will keep her in there for the next few days and make sure she is eating well and im going to block off the 2 sides on my exo terra. i think you were right when u said the wide open stresses her out. im going to move some plants around in my viv and once im sure she is eating ill place her back with the 4 others.

woohoo! its amazing what a good soak in some distilled water can do for a frog! haha