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    Default Re: 2 new ADFs floating and climbing out of water

    Yes, fighting the pH of your water is a waste of time. Unless you have expensive fish with VERY specific needs (read: Discus) you are just going to fight a losing battle on pH.. most aquarium bred fish and especially aquatic frogs are very adaptable to any normal range of pH (6.5 to 7.5).

    I am not familiar with chytrid but that could very easily explain what is happening here. Did you not also have an ADF with a foot that rotted off?? That has to be chytrid of something particularly nasty..

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    the first frog I bought has a withered looking foot. I thought maybe he'd been born like that?
    I've not heard of chytrid causing a loss of limbs and I think he'd have been sick first if he bought the disease into the tank

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    Default Re: 2 new ADFs floating and climbing out of water

    Quote Originally Posted by froglett View Post
    the first frog I bought has a withered looking foot. I thought maybe he'd been born like that?
    I've not heard of chytrid causing a loss of limbs and I think he'd have been sick first if he bought the disease into the tank
    From what I saw of that frog when you first got it there was no disease. It is highly likely it was born that way. I have seen several with deformities including deformed and extra linbs. That's what happens when us humans are hell bent of saving them all. lol

    A store can have a good reputation and still unknowingly get diseased animals in. Chytrid is tricky and took a while to detect and learn how to treat it.

    Here is a site with treatments. To my knowledge the only method that works is the Lamisil treatment. I would not waste my time with the other BS.

    Chytrid Fungus Facts and Treatments

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