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Ok, I just went to check up on my Whites Tree frogs which I've had for over a year and one was dead and the other is really sick. They were fine just an hour ago!!! OK, I was going to clean their cage and I saw that deep down in the bottom there was some water. I took them out and put them in a little cage with some water in the bottom and some food. They had a UVB light above them and some heat under them. The cage took longer than I thought to dry, so they were in there a couple days. And they were pefectly fine until just a few minutes ago. I went to check on them and my precious James was dead on the bottom and the other was just sitting there. I rushed them into my bathroom, and put James on some toilet paper and he was not moving. He was dead. I put Lily in the sink and she just sat there. I put her in my hand and she curled up into a little ball. I put her back in the sink and saw her hands and legs were blood red, but weren't bleeding. Then she started opening and closing her mouth. And she has weird green dots up her arms and legs. I have no way I can get to a pet doctor!!! What should I do????? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I'm such a bad pet owner!!!!! HELP!!!!! = 0

J.L.

I had a few whites do this to me before. Mine turned out to be infested with internal parasities. There could be some sort of a chemical in the cage that hurt them. Or it could be impaction. There are lots of reasons.

Ok, did yours live? What did you do for them? Also, I forgot to put this before, their stomachs felt really hard.

J.L.

One of them died but the other lived because I gave it meds. Go to a vet in your area and ask for "panacur" or something along that line. It kills harmful paracites in there body. The stomach thing suggests it is impaction. What do you use for substrate?
so find out about the meds and try that.

Thank you for all your help!!! I had no substrate in the cage they were in. I think I've confirmed it was parasites because in the cage they were in, I saw little wormlike things inside it. How do they get parasites???

J.L.

Ya, that must be the problem. So if the other is still alive then try that panacur or other paraisite drugs. Also for the other question alot of the frogs,ect. that are incaptivity usual have bugs when you buy them. Or sometimes its infected feeding insects. It could be lots of things.

Good Luck!