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I got home after work today to find my 7 month old pixi frog dead and bloated in his water. Yesterday he was eating fine and he spend some of his time on land and some of his time in the water. The temperatures ranged from 95 degrees on the hot to 70 degrees on the cool side and the water temp was 80 degrees and the humidity was about 71%. I just do not know what happened. Does any one have an idea??

AJ

I am sorry for your loss, I just recently lost mine too and I asked the same question. What kind of substrate was he on? B/c mine was on sand which is a nono and he probably got impacted? So that is a possibility.
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95 degrees is too hot. What did you heat the cage with? What kind of substrate were you using? What were you feeding it? Lots of variables here. Give us a little more info...

The temp that you were setting your pixie at was waayy too hott. Wut i like to do is a mixture of moisture and mild heat. I like to use moss or anything that can really have the frog dig himself in to relax.Followed by a free sprits of water to gain humidity in the tank.I honestly do not recommend a water dish being that pixies are one of the larger frogs and sometimes they just not be up for the energy to get out of a water dish,causing it to drown unfortunately..This is all i can say but im sure it helped and im sorry on your loss..

Horned MAN

I would agree that the temp was to hot except for the fact that he spent time in both extremes the cold end being about 70 degrees.

I think a gut impaction happend because There was some larger rocks that he could have swallowed causing his demise. I just made an amature mistake. I am upset about the loss but the good thing is that every one who is reading this post is learning from my mistake. I will give you the details after I cut the body open to find out.

Thank you for the posts

AJ

Very Sorry!

Eve

95 is EXTREMELY hot, MUCH TOO HOT for a pyxie frog. Acceptable ranges are 75 or so 85. But it could have been anything. Toxicity is a possibility that can pop up over night. Without getting a necropsy, there isn't a way to tell, so it could have literally been almost anything. I still suspect the temperature had something to do with it.
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