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[Crunchie]

Short version of story - tiny Hyla arborea jumped from her tank into a bucket of quite warm water. She is hopping around but her fingers and toes (?) look to be slightly curled up. I'm not really sure what to do with her other than keep the viv well misted. She is breathing a little heavier than usual as well and I'm unsure if there is damage to the feet and hands or if she's just keeping them that way due to them being sore. The hands (well I don't know what else to call them) have opened up a bit while I've been away at the football but I'm still awfully worried about the poor mite. Is there anything I can do or should I just continue to spray the viv more than usual. She is still able to climb the sides of the tank but I'm not sure if any damage would leave her too handicapped to survive.

I can't believe she jumped all the way from the tank smack bang into that bucket of water, she wasn't moving when I first took her out but she recovered a bit and is now hopping and climbing about but as I say her feet and hands just aren't right.

I really don't think keeping amphibians is for me, what a stupid thing to let happen.

[MJ]

Just leave it be for a few days spray as normal and see how it does if it's moving around fine after a few hours it will sort itself out in a few days

Dont let it put you off amphibians worse things happen just be a little more attentive as to where things are when working with them
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Paul

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[Crunchie]

Her fingers and toes are uncurling a bit though she still has difficulty climbing. However she was hopping around snapping up crickets earlier tonight so hopefully she'll recover and there won't be too much lasting damage.

I still can't believe she managed to jump straight into the bucket. It was no where near her tank either. I suppose I should thank myself lucky as I normally use water straight from a boiled kettle to dip their tank furniture in. Today i just used water from the hot tap and it had cooled a bit before Sweet-pea jumped in the poor soul.

[Crunchie]

Oh well my poor wee girl seems to be full recovered now (well she seemed to be fully recovered after a few days truth be told). I'm sort of hoping that everything that could go wrong has done and they'll all be OK now.

[ChrisM]

As Paul said- dont let it put you off. Accidents happen. Myself, and loads of other darts have had frogs jump out!

I've chased thumbnail darts around a friends house before!

[KJ Exotics]

[Crunchie]

I guess you can never speak too soon. The smallest of the three baby frogs I had deteriorated to such an extent I had to separate her last night. When I got back from work today I found she'd died.

She never really grew any in the two months I've had them. The other two have grown a fair bit and will hopefully be able to meet Padge (my adult male I found in the salad bag) before the year's out. Feel a bit rotten but I always did worry about that particular wee one. Is it common for even them to die even after turning into froglets? My baby frogs were tiny when I got them.

[MJ]

it does happen Tree frogs lay a huge amount of eggs (you should see some leaf frog clutches ) some will never make it past egg stage some not past tadpole and some just wont make it through to adult stage.. sorry you had to experiance it but its a part of keeping amphibians.. good suplimentation and a varied diet help reduce this though
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Paul

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[Phil1988]

I never knew you were the tesco salad frog person

[Crunchie]