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Unidentified very thin frog?:

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shirl
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Posted: 17 Aug 2008

I sent these pics in last night via the online reporting form, however I have searched the internet for hours and I have no idea what this is. It was found last night about 6pm in the garden, we have a stone trough which collects water run off from our field and it was sitting in that.

It is quite dark in that area so I had to use flash , the actual colour is a more brownish yellow (just seen it again and in daylight it is more yellowish), it is long and very thin and has none of the normal common frog markings e.g. bands on legs. Anyone seen anything like this before?

Shirl

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Peter
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Posted: 17 Aug 2008
Hmmm,   still looks like a common frog to me.  Not a very well one though!  Perhaps whatever condition it has (very thin!) is affecting it`s skin/colouration?



shirl
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Posted: 17 Aug 2008

It doesn't look well, don't think I have ever seen a frog that thin. It is still there this morning, quite close to the base of a tree near the trough  with a "normal" common frog just a few inches away. There is plenty of food in our garden in terms of insects and loads of slugs, so it has plenty to eat, it's a completely organic garden so it shouldn't be at risk from nasty things. Will keep an eye on it although not sure what else I can do.

Thanks for the reply

Shirl

 


Robert V
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Posted: 18 Aug 2008

 

Shirl, Hi,

whatever it is, you could always try buying a small box of house crickets from a reptile shop and feeding him/her up a bit.

R


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Alan Hyde
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Posted: 18 Aug 2008
Hi Robert, good suggestion

When we lived at our old house we reguarly fed the frogs by our pond and I often dealt with frogs in similar condition.
Rather than crickets buy a tub of wax-worms, these will add bulk to the frog much faster and they love them.
With extremely emaciated frogs like your one Shirl', I would get a very fine insulin needle and syringe and inject 10th of 1ml of liquid panacur into the waxworm to tidy up any parasites that might be causing the problem.

Prepare your wax-worm with panacur and start feeding the frog, once it has taken two or three throw it the injected worm and it should snap it up.

Good luck,
Al
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Alan Hyde
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Posted: 18 Aug 2008
Oh and, if this works repeat the dose 10-14 days later
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Baby Sue
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Posted: 18 Aug 2008
Poor skinny thing.
I wanted presents from lots of you. Snot fair that Ben Rigsby was the only one to send me Xmas & birthday presents.
shirl
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Posted: 18 Aug 2008

Many thanks for the replies and suggestions, let's hope we can get it back to a reasonable size.

 

Shirl


Dave1812
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Posted: 29 Sep 2008
Shirl, any update on the frog?
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shirl
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Posted: 29 Sep 2008

Hi Dave

A couple of days after the post it "disappeared", I keep checking but haven't seen it since. Haven't seen a body either so hopefully that might be good news. Will keep my eyes open, there is plenty of food for frogs in the garden, so I am hopeful it was able to survive.

 

Shirl


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