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    Default Is this bloat?

    Any ammonia present in your water is toxic and can damage your frog.

    You may want to do some water changes and try to get your water parameters under control. If your frog is swimming normally that is a good sign though.

    Few questions..
    Size of tank?
    Temperature?
    How many frogs?
    Do you do weekly water changes?
    What do you feed your frogs?

    It's a 30 us gallon long, temp is 78.8 F, there are four frogs (three male one female, all around 11 months old), I do weekly wc's, although this one has been a fortnight because I've been very ill (I really didn't think the extra week would do any harm), and I feed them Xenopus frog pellets from pollywog.

    Oh I hope it's not a stroke! Lost my frog kermit to a suspected stroke around may this year :-( those feet do look ragged. He has started trying to swim through the side of the tank too :-/

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    Default Re: Is this bloat?

    The size of the tank sounds OK for 3 ACF but 79F is pretty high for X. Laevis, it could be the problem. They do better at ~70F.. if you have a heater you should turn it down or remove it entirely as long as the water stays 68-72F.

    Higher water temps means their hearts beat faster, I don't believe X. Laevis does well at 80F+ they are not tropical animals, it puts strain on their hearts which could lead to a stroke.

    Run a water test for nitrite and nitrate.. you should have 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite and under 20ppm of nitrate if your tank is cycled correctly.

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