malaysian horned frog!

[Heatheranne]

will do complete update with pictures, how to and care sheet to best of my knowledge i just want to test a few things. or may be I'll better put down what i already know and will update with any new info. will do in a few days will have time then.

Sounds great .

[Lija]

I'll start with picture update this is my healthy one, that is a male I think, but haven't heard him calling.

[Lija]

that is how the other remaining frog looked like 7-1o days after 2 weeks after symptoms first started to show.

that is he now after treatment, almost 2 weeks after first pics were taken, it is a male and calling like crazy despite whatever is happening to him.



that is his hospital set up ( tall plastic container, all walls and bottom covered with paper towels, partially covered with paper towel, 5.0 UVB present during a day for 12 hours.


just pics for now, will do a description later.

[Starforce2]

I wonder if CB of the species will have the same issue. ANy ideas what it is? Fungus, virus, bacteria?

[Lija]

those wounds are bacterial infection that doesn't respond to topical antibiotics. it was treated with systemic broad spectrum ones and Flamazine directly on a wounds 2xday.

so that is how it all happened. as I said it was a very educational and sad experience for me, i see my fault in some of the things I've done ( or hadn't done), you live , you suck it up and learn from your mistakes. The reason I'm writing this is to help future owners of nasutas to not to experience what I had to go thorough, as well as I mentioned the work is still in progress
- i got 2 frogs initially, wounds appeared within 2 days, seizures after 2 days after, frog died the next day after seizures started. the other frog was ok.
- I got one more frog from same pet store at about same time as the first one died, that one had wounds on its knees, so was treated and quarantined for 1 month. it that pet store nasutas were kept in small enclosures in a groups of 2 or 3.
- a few weeks after i got third frog, same species appeared in the other pet store, so i got those 2 as well, they were very healthy and were kept in separate enclosures in that pet store, i put them together and added other 2 after quarantine was over.
- one of the frogs started to show wounds on a horns shortly after they all were housed together, it didn't responded to topical treatment and died shortly after seizures started. all frogs lived in temporary enclosure ( 24x18) at that time.
- shortly after that one died I moved the remaining company to a bigger tank ( 36x18) with waterfall, pond and false bottom
- everyone seemed to be very happy, eating like pigs for a a few months. A month or so ago another frog got wounded horns, was quarantined and treated with Flamazine alone, looked to be better a bit, but not by much, i had to leave for a few days and a person who looked after forgot to mist hospital set up for one or 2 days, when i got home a frog was sitting on dry papertowels and looked quite dry, wounds were not that bad. I did complete dehydration therapy, but a frog didn't recover and died within few days, wounds during this period were going worse.
- at about same time one more frog started to show same symptoms, wounds on the horns, at that point world known and one of the best amphibian vets in north america was involved, the result you see above. currently recovered frog is still in his hospital set up, but will be transferred to his home probably today, and will be housed separately from healthy one for 3-4 month.

to be continued with possible causes.... gotta go now