I came home from vacation today to find that my froggy baby-sitter did not do a good job. 
My RETF had very little water in his water area, but was laying in it anyways. I actually thoguht he was dead at first, because it was daytime & he was on the bottom of the tank (on the ground), and a very dark color. I decided to put some water in just in case. An hour later I came back tocheck on him, and he had all his legs spread out trying to absorb as much of the water as he could. So I think he was just dehyrdated. He laid in there pretty much all day, and I went out for a couple of hours tonight. I came back home to find him on the ground of the tank again, but this time he's on the dirt. He still looks very sickly and he has a weird discolorment around his mouth. Does anyone have any suggestions for anything I can do?
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Red-Eyed Tree Frog & Dehydration
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Do you have a herp vet lined up already? I think it's time to use it.
Until your vet visit, monitor humidity well, mist the enclosure with warm water, and make sure temps are in the mid to upper portion of the prefered range.
For now you should remove your frog from its enclosure and put it on wet, moist paper towels. Add a water dish and a full plant to it for humidity. Keep your humidity at about 65-70% and the temp during the day at about 78-80 with it going down to 69-71 at night. make sure that there is food available to the frog also. Also be sure to mist the enclosure every time the humidity starts to drop. This hopefully should keep your frog alive untill you get him to a vet. Also, I have one question and its about your plants that are in the tank. The plants that you have in your red eyes tank, are they in pots and if so what kind of soil are they in and is there white pieces of foam in the soil which is called perlite? Because if you have potted plants in your tank and there is perlite in the plants soil, I believe that your frog may have ingested it which means it is slowly dehydrating your frog. Perlite is used in plants because it holds water and moister in the soil, I lost a red eye due to perlite before and my frogs symtoms were very simalar to yours.
