My Frog is Acting Sick. It is Thin and no Longer Active. Whats Wrong With it?
Your frog has become weakened by some factor, either stress from tankmates, or lack of food, or an internal problem. It may now be sick in addition to being weakened. Dart frogs, like many other animals, often get sick as a side effect of being weakened. It is my belief that most dart frogs get sick after first having been weakened by stress from tankmates, or by failure to receive enough food for a period of a few weeks. This last can also be the result of stress from tankmates, which can out compete a frog and keep it from getting enough to eat. At some point in this process your frog weakens and dies. They often begin to be unable to catch their food, and when they flick their tongue out to eat, they don’t get what they are aiming at. During the period as your frog gets weak, it’s very vulnerable to opportunistic infections, and if it becomes infected with a strain of bacteria, this infection can then be transmitted to your other healthy frogs.
