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It's probably been about 6 months now or even longer since I noticed my White's Tree Frogs back legs really haven't been very strong. He still uses them, so there is circulation, feeling, and some type of strength left in them, but when he jumps or moves around he leaves his legs sprawled and just seems kind of tipsy when he falls off a branch trying to get somewhere and just not stable. He eats fine, has no weight loss, sits in his water dish, and is normal, but I just don't understand how his legs could all of a sudden lose as much strength as they have. I've had him for about 4 years and 3 months and I've never had a problem with it before. I do vitamin supplement once a week, so I'm kind of eliminating Metabolic Bone Disorder as the cause, but am still not sure. He doesn't have disfiguration, but if anybody has any idea as to what could have caused it, please let me know. None of my other frogs show any problems at all and he's healthy otherwise...I'm enclosing a picture of one of the positions he will just sit there in...and not try to correct his body position.

Accidentally clicked post message instead of preview before I got the picture in...

You said you do vitamin supplements, but do you dust with a calcium supplement too? Just double checking...

What are the temps and humidity?
What exactly are you feeding, how much, and how often?
When was the last time he deficated?

I don't know if it's just the picture, but to me he looks Skinny...

Good luck.

Temperature's anywhere between 83 and 87 during the day...70's at night and humidity is moderate...I have live plants and I spray the cage. Yes I do cricket dusting, which is what I meant in the last post and if there are left over crickets I put cricket food in in the cage for them (a separate cage) and give them water. I feed the frogs 3-4 crickets every 3-4 days. He eats fine...and the position of his body in the picture makes him look skinny. I'll take a better pic of him and post it...everything else about him is healthy. Last time he's gone to the bathroom was probably like 2 or 3 days ago...a day or two after the last feeding, but I haven't checked the cage today (I just fed them last night). So there's the story...I'm not really worried about it because it hasn't affected his personality, I just feel bad that it happened, and am trying to find out why.

Here's a bit of a better picture for an idea of the frog's size...along with another idea of how his legs will just lay out like that without him always trying to correct it. Eventually he will put his legs back where they should be next to his body...but not for a while.