Red Eyed Tree Frog - Gooey Bum

[chris354724]

Hey,

My baby RETF has some type of gooey substance sticking to its bottom. No idea what it is, anyone had any experience of this?

[pollywog]

gooey substance? your going to have to elaborate on that

[Saedcantas]

What colour is it and does it seem to be attached?

[chris354724]

its attached to its bum. like jelly. i managed to remove some but theres still some there. Hope the crickets havent bit some of its bum off.

[Saedcantas]

I'm extremely concerned that this is a prolapse.

If it's attached to his bum, coming out of the cloaca (bumhole!) and isnt easy to move it sounds more than likely that it was a prolapse.

If this is true and you have managed to remove some of it your frog might be in a very very bad situation.

I'd suggest removing the animal to a sterile container with nothing it can catch it on and no crickets whatsoever.
Try bathing him in a dilute sugar solution, get some tupperware add about a centimeter worth of water and then a teaspoonful of sugar. This will at least keep it moist and if it is a prolapse this could help it reabsorb by itself. Do this for an hour or two at most and check him every 5-10 mins.


You didnt say what colour it is.
When you removed some did anything happen or did just a jelly like substance come off quite easily?
If you look at it quite closely now is it clearish beige with tiny veins in it or completely clear?

It may be I'm panicing over something much less harmful, I hope so!
Lotte***

[jesuslovestheladies]

a runny poo perhaps...

[pollywog]

This is what a prolapse looks like:

As said if it is a prolapse bathing the frog in a sugar water solution can help. I personally mix it up to 4 Oz of spring water with the amount of sugar you can pick up on the first cm of the tip of a tee-spoon handle, adults I bath overnight and normally by morning it will have righted itself but if your frog is only young I'd go with Lotte's time recomendation. In order to bath it your best putting it in a shallow tub so it can't climb all the way out of the water but make sure the waters only shallow as they can drown themselves.

[jesuslovestheladies]

wuerg nurgh wurgh... barfs... that gross... why the hell does that happen? dont tell me its possible to literally crap out your guts...

[chris354724]

ok ill try that. its not as gruesome as that but may be the beginning of that.

i seen the veigns in it but it was a lighter colour.

[mad4frogs]

Its a bit like the human equivalent to piles Its caused by the frog straining when going to the loo. Ive had a couple of redeyes with the problem. First time I sprayed the site with water to keep moist and then left the frog alone, sprayed couple of times per day, and it made its way back in and the second time it wouldnt go back in by itself so I bathed in sugar water same as pollywog stated and all was well by the morning

If it is this problem then whatever you do dont pull at it...its attached