Bloated Xenopus Laevis

[Jenste]

One bath per frog and the bath water can only be used once.

Don't try and double doses to have two frogs together.... The salt doesn't "know" to divide evenly and you could really hurt your frogs.

Using bathwater over risks infection due to risk of bacteria forming, concentration or dilution of salt due to absorption / evaporation....

Just too many risks.

Epson salt is very cheap and the quantity you use per bath will make the container last a while.


Unfortunately, you wouldn't have had to do as long of a treatment if they had been treated earlier. Now their bloat is quite severe and needs longer treatment.

Can you post updated pictures of all the frogs?

[Seberous]

Currently, my Xenopus are always big. I would put pictures of when they will be less bloated.

What is the risk of a bath to my Xenopus same time ?

[Jenste]

Currently, my Xenopus are always big. I would put pictures of when they will be less bloated.

What is the risk of a bath to my Xenopus same time ?

I answered that in my last post. Put two frogs in one bath with twice the salt per volume of water and you are exposing both frogs to a higher than recommended level of salt. Think of it this way - - if you and your friend want to go tanning together, you decide to go into the same booth to save money and the attendant turns the temperature up twice as high because they think it will spread the temperature out to you two evenly. What happens is you both end up getting horribly burned.

The double salt content doesn't :know: to go to one frog or another, both frogs just get exposed to high levels of salt.

You waited a long time to treat them. Rushing now is not the answer for these frogs.

[Jenste]

Currently, my Xenopus are always big. I would put pictures of when they will be less bloated.

What is the risk of a bath to my Xenopus same time ?

I answered that in my last post. Put two frogs in one bath with twice the salt per volume of water and you are exposing both frogs to a higher than recommended level of salt. Think of it this way - - if you and your friend want to go tanning together, you decide to go into the same booth to save money and the attendant turns the temperature up twice as high because they think it will spread the temperature out to you two evenly. What happens is you both end up getting horribly burned.

The double salt content doesn't :know: to go to one frog or another, both frogs just get exposed to high levels of salt.

You waited a long time to treat them. Rushing now is not the answer for these frogs.

[Seberous]

I did not increase the dose of salt. I just made salt baths to three frogs at the same time. Is it less efficient to bath three frogs at the same time? With salt baths, my big white frog has skin folds. Is this normal? It is the effects of salt? Here are the pictures:

[Seberous]

I apologize for the double post. My biggest frog (the white) was in very poor condition and she would die, so I "pumped" the frog with a syringe. But the syringe is small (it is the syringe of my cat diabetic), the syringe has not removed enormously fluid. it's been two days in a row that I punctured the frog. That's a lot of injuries because I punctured several times to fill the small syringe. So I have several urgent questions: Can I puncture several days, she will suffer? And do I only punctured in the legs or do I punctured the body (because I'm afraid to kill)? That has not changed its state at the moment. She does almost no debate when she is out of the water (this is useful for puncturing) and in the water she leans back. I hope this will lead to improvements in his condition...

[Bolisnide]

I apologize for the double post. My biggest frog (the white) was in very poor condition and she would die, so I "pumped" the frog with a syringe. But the syringe is small (it is the syringe of my cat diabetic), the syringe has not removed enormously fluid. it's been two days in a row that I punctured the frog. That's a lot of injuries because I punctured several times to fill the small syringe. So I have several urgent questions: Can I puncture several days, she will suffer? And do I only punctured in the legs or do I punctured the body (because I'm afraid to kill)? That has not changed its state at the moment. She does almost no debate when she is out of the water (this is useful for puncturing) and in the water she leans back. I hope this will lead to improvements in his condition...

Wait, are you serious? Who advised you to lance the frog with a syringe?