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Hello and Help!
As of yesterday we have become unwitting frog owners - one of my daughters friends brought her a hoplobatrachus rugulosus as a birthday present from the local wetmarket.
To those of you unfamilar with HK's wetmarkets - the are gross, wet and smelly and definately unhygienic!
To make matters worse the mother of said friend (the kid is only 8 years old - don't blame her), who is now classified as a total numbskull, refused to inspect the frog when she bought it! It was popped unceremoniously into a plastic bag.
When my daughter showed me the frog it had red open swollen toes. It does not have red patches on the legs though, only the toes appear affected.
I haven't met the mother yet but she'd better beware because I'm really really angry at her.
We haven't taken it to the vet yet (sunday ) but a friend of a friend knows something about frogs so we sent some pictures over. Still waiting for a reply....
In the meantime, the frog is in a clean glass tank, which has some water in it....about 20 degrees Celsius. We caught some grasshoppers which it ate....
I'm doing some research as to the needs of frogs... and getting supplies this afternoon....We're successful owners of hermit crabs already so have some idea about difficult and delicate pets....
If you have some idea of what is wrong with it, and can give me advice IT IS ALL VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!! If I don't hear back from anyone, I'd be very tempted to put it in a diluted solution of antibiotics....
