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Dropsy frog - advice needed

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My ultimate fav frog has bloating disease (fluid under the skin). I'm gutted :(. Took her to a specialist who gave me baytril (antibiotic) and told me to put her in salt water. The MAJOR problem is that it has to be given orally but she's been so stressed out with vets visits that I can't get her to hand feed. I can catch her but then I can't get her to open her mouth for love nor money! For the past two days I have been putting the medication in frozen food that she can eat whole but my vet has told me that freezing the antibiotic can potentially lessen it's effectiveness.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can administer the Baytril properly?
 
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It is possible to force feed frogs, just like it's possible to force feed newts. Some people can do it as easily as sticking a fingernail and slowly opening the mouth. Some use a credit card. I believe it's easier to do it with larger frogs. It might be worth asking elsewhere in the forum (i.e. not in the frog area) because the procedure for force-feeding a newt is pretty similar (they have similar feeding mechanisms). I _think_ Paris Reilley has force-feeding of salamanders down to a Tee.

In any case, do not freeze the antibiotics, the vet is right.
 
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John said:
It is possible to force feed frogs, just like it's possible to force feed newts. Some people can do it as easily as sticking a fingernail and slowly opening the mouth. Some use a credit card. I believe it's easier to do it with larger frogs. It might be worth asking elsewhere in the forum (i.e. not in the frog area) because the procedure for force-feeding a newt is pretty similar (they have similar feeding mechanisms). I _think_ Paris Reilley has force-feeding of salamanders down to a Tee.

In any case, do not freeze the antibiotics, the vet is right.
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Thanks John, unfortunatley did not have any luck with the force feeding so I managed to get a needle and syringe from the lab at uni and am instead injecting the antibiotic into chunks of food. As she needs to get this daily I might have a fat frog on my hands very soon! No difference in bloating yet but it's early days so I'm still hopeful :happy:
 
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