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Arachnobaron
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Hey guys,
Yesterday night i found a Bufo viridis hoping around, while i was watching 4 giant mediterannean geckos hunting moths on a lamb (its actually satisfying). Now that i look at it better, it seems very skinny, and unable to stand up properly. At the moment, i'm experiencing a mass death of my mealworm (3000 of dead, around 20$ worth of mealworms) so im left with 10-12, and probably wont be able to get more this week. I did force feed the toad since he refused to eat 5 times, and i also gave him some calcium, i dont know if it's good for them but he looked like he was missing minerals. He seems a bit better now but still he's not standing up like a normal Bufo viridis will do, but lying on his belly, like he's sick or something. I've kept Bufo viridis before, and raised them from eggs (released when reached frog stage.) but never seen one behave like this. Is the frog suffering frog an illness,bacteria or internal damage? Also since he is wild-caught, can he by any chance eat wild caught butterflies,moths,locusts or earthworms?.
NOTE : He isnt old, the behaviour is definetly not the frog being old, he is smaller than the average adult green toad (Bufo Viridis).
NOTE 2 : As im writing this, I can see the frog trying to climb up the enclosure, vertically, but he puts his butt and backfeet first, and head,front-feet second, like some type of yoga. http://prntscr.com/g9oihy (sorry for the blurry image im using my skype cam, since my phone is out of battery)
Yesterday night i found a Bufo viridis hoping around, while i was watching 4 giant mediterannean geckos hunting moths on a lamb (its actually satisfying). Now that i look at it better, it seems very skinny, and unable to stand up properly. At the moment, i'm experiencing a mass death of my mealworm (3000 of dead, around 20$ worth of mealworms) so im left with 10-12, and probably wont be able to get more this week. I did force feed the toad since he refused to eat 5 times, and i also gave him some calcium, i dont know if it's good for them but he looked like he was missing minerals. He seems a bit better now but still he's not standing up like a normal Bufo viridis will do, but lying on his belly, like he's sick or something. I've kept Bufo viridis before, and raised them from eggs (released when reached frog stage.) but never seen one behave like this. Is the frog suffering frog an illness,bacteria or internal damage? Also since he is wild-caught, can he by any chance eat wild caught butterflies,moths,locusts or earthworms?.
NOTE : He isnt old, the behaviour is definetly not the frog being old, he is smaller than the average adult green toad (Bufo Viridis).
NOTE 2 : As im writing this, I can see the frog trying to climb up the enclosure, vertically, but he puts his butt and backfeet first, and head,front-feet second, like some type of yoga. http://prntscr.com/g9oihy (sorry for the blurry image im using my skype cam, since my phone is out of battery)