Hurt frog,

[keegan86]

Gimpy the frog is still with us. He is eating crickets and moving around, but his leg is still in pretty bad shape. We dont really have herp vets around here either. No offense to the frog, but I am not driving to Birmingham for his health care. I'm just gonna cut his dang leg off.... My online research says finquel is the anesthetic of choice. I can handle that I think , and if I screw it up all I will do is euthanize him, which is what the local vet will to do if I take it to them anyway. My question is whether I should give him some kind of pre surgical antibiotics. All of the literature I have read recommends doing this, but none of them actually name the antibiotic of choice. Yea I know there are a lot of antibiotics, depending on whether the infection is gram positive, negative, viral, fungal, etc. I don't have a friggin microscope and lab setup in my basement... I am just trying to take precautionary measures whenever possible. I have also read that some amphibians have a hard time metabolizing some antibiotics, and they can cause fatal liver damage. Like I said, I am totally new to this little hobby, and am completely ignorant when it comes to amphibian welfare. Is there some kind of general, commonly used broad spectrum amphibian antibiotic? Maybe something I could put in his water, or spray onto him? Petco sells tetracycline tablets for fish, and I am sure I can get pretty much anything off of Amazon.com. I really don't want to screw this up, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[GrifTheGreat]

Gimpy the frog is still with us. He is eating crickets and moving around, but his leg is still in pretty bad shape. We dont really have herp vets around here either. No offense to the frog, but I am not driving to Birmingham for his health care. I'm just gonna cut his dang leg off.... My online research says finquel is the anesthetic of choice. I can handle that I think , and if I screw it up all I will do is euthanize him, which is what the local vet will to do if I take it to them anyway. My question is whether I should give him some kind of pre surgical antibiotics. All of the literature I have read recommends doing this, but none of them actually name the antibiotic of choice. Yea I know there are a lot of antibiotics, depending on whether the infection is gram positive, negative, viral, fungal, etc. I don't have a friggin microscope and lab setup in my basement... I am just trying to take precautionary measures whenever possible. I have also read that some amphibians have a hard time metabolizing some antibiotics, and they can cause fatal liver damage. Like I said, I am totally new to this little hobby, and am completely ignorant when it comes to amphibian welfare. Is there some kind of general, commonly used broad spectrum amphibian antibiotic? Maybe something I could put in his water, or spray onto him? Petco sells tetracycline tablets for fish, and I am sure I can get pretty much anything off of Amazon.com. I really don't want to screw this up, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

For most internal bacterial or protozoa infections they use Baytril or Flagyl. There is a member on here that could definitely assist you with this. his screen name is Skeletalfrog. For external wounds you can apply Neosporine WITHOUT PAINKILLER. the painkiller would kill the frog. Just original Neosporine.