Merry Christmas everyone, and I know it's Christmas Day, but something odd happened to o e of my FBT's today.
I don't know if it matters, but yesterday I moved them into a new, bigger setup but used all the same stuff apart from new Eco earth and moss - though still the same as what was in their original setup.
Anyway, this morning I noticed one of them floating around and not really swimming properly and rubbing his head and eyes. Then he was sort of twitching and arching his back, getting his back legs and rubbing at his back. As I watched him for a minute or so, I noticed what looked like a kind of mucus covering him and restricting movement of his legs. He carried on twitching and rubbing for another minute, and seemed to rub whatever it was off him and get free of it.
Now he's swimming and climbing as normal. I can't see any lumps of mucus in the water or covering anything, don't know where it came from.
Do they secrete anything from their skin or something? The other 2 FBTs are fine, no problems.
I agree with Jerome it sounds like he was shedding.
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1.0 Bufo americanus
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Definifely shedding.
Agreed
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^ what they said.......shedding.
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Cool, thanks for the replies guys, I didn't even know they went through shedding!
is it like when reptiles have to she'd skin as they grow bigger? do they do it often?
im glad its normal though, I was a bit worried he might be ill or have fungus on him or something, thanks very much for the info and reassurance that its all normal FBT behaviour
I had the same thing happen with mine awhile back. I assumed it was shedding before reading up on it here - they continue to fascinate me in a new way every week!
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