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I have about a 3 year old whites tree frog. He lives with another Whites about the same age. He is never green, always brown, unlike his companion who is most of the time green. He had an eye problem awhile back, I think do to the water. He is alittle better from that now. I came home and I noticed that he was rubbing something out of his eye. I couldn't tell what it was until I got closer to him and noticed it looked like he threw up or something. It was on the glass wall next to him which he had stuck himself to. He keeps trying to gulp it down or something. He looks really bad, like it hurts him to swallow. I have no idea whats going on and Im worried that maybe he is sicker than I thought. He just got fed about a day and a half ago, probably only ate 3 crickets but Im not sure. They both live in a 20 gallon tall tank, 80 degrees is the normal temperature with 50-60% humidity. If anyone knows what is going on or what can help my frog I would greatly appericate it. Thanks..................Frogger

It almost sounds like he might be shedding???? Hopefully someon else might have another opinion.

Christina
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The motion of him pushing by his eye could very well be him pushing the skin forward into his mouth. Frogs eat their skin a lot of the time when they shed...it contains nutrients. Another thing is...what kind of substrate do you have, and do you feed your frogs inside the cage? I've learned lessons from both of those questions...I used to have an Eastern Gray Tree Frog and I had a little bark substrate and fed it inside the cage. One day I saw it throw up a piece of bark. It was fine, because it threw it up before it tried to digest it, but it could be trying to get rid of something in its stomach. As far as the brown color, I also have a frog that mainly stays brown and the other three green. It's not really unhealthy, I think it depends on the personality of the frog in a way. Mine that stays brown is always hiding and won't even eat calmly unless I give it a hiding spot to wait for crickets. As long as the frog is eating OK, I don't see where there's a huge problem. When a frog is really sick, they don't eat because their body cannot use the energy to digest the food, or, they just don't have the energy themselves to digest the food. I'm really not sure how often these frogs shed, I would say maybe once, twice a week? But try not to stress yourself out over it. If the frog stops eating or there's really a HUGE noteable injury, or difference in figurment between the frogs, I would say quarantine the frog and take it to an exotic vet. I didn't think there was anybody who could help me, but I called to different veternarians asking if anybody had any knowledge on amphibians when my frogs got sick. Good luck...keep us updated.

sounds perfectly normal, he's shedding! the amount frogs shed depends on the age tenmperature and humidity. the drier the enviroment and the older the frog, the less amount of shedding of the skin will occur. While the young juveniles will shed much more because they are growing.

frogs can change color depending on many factors including temp, humidity, enclosure furnishings, and of course disease. but if he is eating , than the likelyhood of him having any diseases is slim

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sounds perfectly normal, he's shedding! the amount frogs shed depends on the age tenmperature and humidity. the drier the enviroment and the older the frog, the less amount of shedding of the skin will occur. While the young juveniles will shed much more because they are growing.

frogs can change color depending on many factors including temp, humidity, enclosure furnishings, and of course disease. but if he is eating , the likelyhood of him having any diseases is slim

luke z
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