I know I've seen a few people warning not to toss a frog you think is dead right away, but this one surprised me.
I have a breeding pair, and I keep new frogs in a container for a few months, meanwhile the latest batch of nearly done morphing frogs get put into the container in a half-pint wide-mouth jar until they climb out to join the others.
Well the other day I found two of the older froglets in the jar, one of them was active, but appeared unable to get out... the other was spread eagle and not moving. I spooned them both out. The still one looked bloated, and its mouth was a millimeter or two agape and looked blocked up (I assume with a swollen tongue).
I thought it was dead for sure, but I left it on an Indian almond leaf for a bit while I did some feeding around the room. When I set it down, the legs were out a little. I came back to it a little while later and the legs were tucked up to almost normal, though it was still flat on the leaf. I thought maybe that was just a release of tension in the legs or something, but I decided to leave it there anyway.
Next morning there's no sign there was ever a problem! I'm not even sure which one of the two that size it was.
Don't throw the drowned froglet out with the tadpole water!
I have a breeding pair, and I keep new frogs in a container for a few months, meanwhile the latest batch of nearly done morphing frogs get put into the container in a half-pint wide-mouth jar until they climb out to join the others.
Well the other day I found two of the older froglets in the jar, one of them was active, but appeared unable to get out... the other was spread eagle and not moving. I spooned them both out. The still one looked bloated, and its mouth was a millimeter or two agape and looked blocked up (I assume with a swollen tongue).
I thought it was dead for sure, but I left it on an Indian almond leaf for a bit while I did some feeding around the room. When I set it down, the legs were out a little. I came back to it a little while later and the legs were tucked up to almost normal, though it was still flat on the leaf. I thought maybe that was just a release of tension in the legs or something, but I decided to leave it there anyway.
Next morning there's no sign there was ever a problem! I'm not even sure which one of the two that size it was.
Don't throw the drowned froglet out with the tadpole water!