Septic? Need details on this :(

[DVirginiana]

Sorry to hear that...
As to whether or not the frog would be contagious, it's probably not a threat to the new one in his tank, especially if it was cleaned before the new one was put in. Don't know a lot about it in frogs, but usually sepsis is the result of another underlying condition. It can be caused by something like toxicity in the bloodstream from a perforation in the gut; not necessarily something contagious. If the frog only went septic after you brought it home, my guess is there was probably nothing dangerous present while it was in the store.

[GrifTheGreat]

What were you feeding him? Was there anything in his enclosure he could have eaten by accident that could have injured him internally?

[Danielle Mammano]

What were you feeding him? Was there anything in his enclosure he could have eaten by accident that could have injured him internally?

Sorry for poofing, work got busy and time got away from me. I was pretty much just feeding him small crickets, I'd toss five in every week or so. I was keeping him on coco fiber, but tong-feeding him. I plan to keep, or at least feed, my next baby on wet paper towels. I raised my other two from babies and they never had issues with the fiber, but I realize that it's silly to generalize all Pac Mans based on the two I own.

I really do feel that animal quality has gone downhill. I do my best to take care of the reptiles and amphibians at my pet store (I work at a Petco), but my employers are not...smart...we'll say, and made me the small animal specialist. I haven't had a warm blooded pet in SEVEN years, and I know the ins and outs of everything we sell there (except for the weird exotics my manager orders from time to time - never knew Flying Geckos existed, haha). Most of my associates who do reptile care don't check for things that should be checked for - our White's Tree Frogs drop like FLIES, we lose baby corn snakes all the time, and whenever I do reptile care, and it's rare, I almost always find two or more health problems. I don't think my coworkers are apathetic, I think they are just uneducated, which makes me wonder more WHY *I* am not the reptile specialist. I suppose the main reason is I am the only one not allergic to the small animals' bedding that works there...but the logic is still bad; why take away from our herps someone who knows their stuff just because the bedding we use is allergenic? It'd be easier and better for the animals to change the bedding we use. Our morning manager is terribly allergic to fuzzy things so he always makes someone else do the infirmary (it's always got at least one guinea pig in there) - but why schedule yourself for the morning if you can't do the job? Corporate America is silly T_T. He even refused to give a baby ferret it's medicine because he was allergic to it. It passed away. He still has his job. How bloody hard is it to put on some latex gloves an scruff a ferret? It puts them to sleep and you can give them their meds and move on in under a minute. I could write a book on how frustrating it is to seem like the only one who cares about animals working in the pet industry >_>

Thanks for all the info on the disease. A blood infection just makes me wonder more - I use bottled water for my frogs since you can SMELL the chlorine in my tap water from across the room. Perhaps I should be treating even the "clean" stuff too.

I might just get my next Pac Man from Ivory Reptiles, haha. It would have to be a situation where I could set the date of delivery though, I'd hate to not be home and have the poor thing sitting in box in the front office for hours . My boyfriend is still too sad to want to get another one right away, so we'll see what the future has in store. I'm tempted to look for an adult or juvenile albino if we do go that route, I just am too paranoid about the baby ones now.

[GrifTheGreat]

I'm sorry for your loss. Most chain stores don't give a damn about their animals and don't even know anything about them. I call them out on what they do wrong all the time with no change.

It would be best to buy from a breeder like Ivory Reptiles since then you are guaranteed to get a healthy animal.