Tips for saving a starving dwarf frog?

[RachelG]

I just got a little African dwarf frog from my neighbor and the poor thing is nothing but a skeleton! They were feeding only fish flakes and fish pellets, and it apparently wasn't eating those. I've never kept a frog before, let alone a sick one, so I don't know what I'm doing. I have it right now in a spare one gallon fish cube with a bare bottom and a little terracotta pot, because I'm wary of putting in my 20 gallon long with the fish, because I don't want to give my fish any diseases from it if it has any...I no longer have my quarantine tank.

How should I feed the frog? I put some frozen bloodworms in the cube, and I don't know if the frog has eaten any yet. I also have frozen baby brine shrimp, would it eat those? It isn't active. It just sits there. The water temperature seems to be sitting at about 68 degrees f. I don't have any small heaters or money to buy one, so I'm not sure what to do about that...They didn't have a heater on their tank where I got the frog from, either. is the low temperature harming it?

I could get a larger container/fishbowl soon, but I can't get another real quarantine tank because space reasons(and money). I have a spare Tom Mini filter I could use, and I could put a few of the biomax pieces from my Aquaclear filter in the Tom if the frog needs a filter.

I use seachem prime water conditioner. Is that okay for it?

 

[RachelG]

I just looked at it again, and the frog was flipped upside down! I went to open the lid of the cube, and it flipped over on its feet again...I think it is going to die soon.

 

[Crazyhermitcrab]

The little guy will hopefully me fine. They like to flip over. Mine just eats lever fish food and he is fine. He's a plump little guy too. But if ur guy is a picky one (some will only eat one thing: frozen and luve bloodworms) there is a way to feed him. If he is picky he would eat freeze dried bloodworms, you need to buy life bloodworms and frozen bloodworms, feed it to him with tweezers or a turkey Baster. Also add stress coat to help.

 

[RachelG]

Unfortunately, froggy died last night. I guess he was too weak to make it by the time I got him.