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I have a young lorenzo froglet who has started to get thin as far as i can tell it has eaten in a while. I 've been treating it with dextrose and water and baytril . it has been doing a yawn type motion and when I went to check on it it had a bubble on the side of it's mouth. Anyone see that before?

John

I have seen the thinning and the yawning before mine ate regularly too till the last 1-2 weeks. Never seen bubbles before. Unfortuneately I am not sure what the sickness is I have treated with Baytril, Panacur, and ivomec on different frogs they all died. The illness originates for me from cross contamination from a pair of wild caught auratus which show no symptoms. Now that I keep them completely separate no cage moving, I am all good.

Hope this helps
Sorry I cant help with a solution
Darryl
Dart-Frogs.com

Hi: Consider the possibility that you might have more then one issue. Not eating could be a number of things. A stool sample and picture of the frog to Dr. Frye could narrow things down or out I should say. At least you'd know if there were parasites and would treat accordingly. Dr. Frye has Panacure and has advised me to treat my frogs regualarly even without a sample. We've all seen yawning related to molting and the bubble might even be slackened skin the little guy is trying to be rid of. It may not even be related to his thin condition. In short, the most sure way is to get neccessary samples, observations to Dr. Frye and start narrowing down as soon as possible and you could possibly save him. You already determined that something is wrong; Dr. Frye can tell you more definitively then any of us could try to guess. And no matter what the out come for your frog, you will gain experience from it that will make you an even more competent keeper. I wish you the best!

Regards, Maggie