Cobalt not eating??!?? Getting Serious!! :(

[AaronAcker]

SO:

I was told that my cobalts looked a little on the skinny side about 3 weeks ago, both were eating fine, so I upped the amount of ff I gave per feeding. Still dusting my ff 1/3 feedings.

They still seemed fine, and after two weeks my female looked plump. Very healthy and very active.

About 6 days ago, my male stopped eating (up until this point he was eating fine, and appeared just as healthy as the female). Very weird, usually very active eaters. After two days of him not eating, he began to show very little activity. So I searched the forums and found that this was not too uncommon, upon reading some past threads I decided to move the male into a 2 1/2 gal tank that has a false bottom, swimming area with pebbles, and the land area lined with paper towels and a coco-hut. Provided food, still did not eat. The first day he was in there I was provided with a very small fecal mater, which I took to my vet to be tested. Came back yesterday clean.

I've provided a variety of different food items from pinheads, ff, and small wax worms, and he has not eaten nor "pooped" for 5 days. He looks really skinny! Like oh my god please eat! lol
:cry:

SO if he ate something he shouldn't have, or has ingestion problems? or there is some advice that I've overlooked in these forums please let me know!!!!!

[Julio]

did you try another food source, like termites, or waxworms to get them to gain weight?

he obviosly not impacted as he is skinny so other than that is really hard to say.

[AaronAcker]

To gain weight, I just upped the amount of fruit flies, since he stopped eatin Yes, tried termites, wax worms and pin head crickets, he did not eat any of them?

[Rain_Frog]

One of my male tincs stopped eating and lost a lot of weight. He was the "loser" when my female chose a mate; the other male bullied him a lot.

He has been anorexic for several months, however I have gotten him to eat again.

The problem was: the wingless fruit flies just aren't that active as the gliders. And, he was malnourished. After a few controlled feedings with calcium, he has perked back up.

Are you sure the pair was getting along at the time? When frogs want to breed, they can get nasty towards each other. Somebody once said they had a male tinc get killed by a female, because she loved him "to death."

The other possibility it is something like coccidia that doesn't always show up in a fecal, or it could be a bacterial infection.
http://www.dendroboard.com/phpBB2/viewt ... c&start=15

[AaronAcker]

They seem to get along fine. What do you mean by controlled feedings with calcium? And I feed them both types of ff, wingless and flightless... if that helps any? Should I try the petilite soak??

[Rain_Frog]

oddly, i noticed my male was more willing to eat in the evening. I made sure to feed him dusted food at that time.

I monitored how much he was eating. I was misusing the term "controlled feeding."

If all else fails, try the pedialyte soak. In the future, I'd purchase dextrose solution from Dr. Frye.

[AaronAcker]

Well, I am going to wait and see how he is doing in the morning... if he's not eating then, then I'll the the soak.

[AaronAcker]

well, still not too much activity... We'll see how he does in the morning.

[littlefrog]

Sounds like parasites to me. Get some fecals done ASAP. In the meantime, pull him out to a temporary container (a plastic shoebox or similar), in case it is a competition problem.

[AaronAcker]

Originally Posted by littlefrog

Sounds like parasites to me. Get some fecals done ASAP. In the meantime, pull him out to a temporary container (a plastic shoebox or similar), in case it is a competition problem.

Had a fecal done, came back clean... I did pull him out, he's in a 2.5g I set up for him.... Still not eating this morning?