Excessive Skin Shedding?

[mpmistr]

I'm not sure. How old are they? Could possibly be a growth spurt if young, but I don't know if ACFs shed more often during this period. It could be nothing. Terry may know whats going on though.

Oldest frog was purchased as a tiny froglet last May, the other a small froglet in June, and the last one is the youngest I think I got him in September, so these are still relatively small frogs around 3" to 4" give or take.

[GrifTheGreat]

Oldest frog was purchased as a tiny froglet last May, the other a small froglet in June, and the last one is the youngest I think I got him in September, so these are still relatively small frogs around 3" to 4" give or take.

Could possibly be a growth spurt. I don't have experience with this species. Terry does and can definitely shed some light on this.

[rodsboys]

Could have been a two part shed. Are you sure you saw the entire thing removed the first time?

[mpmistr]

Could have been a two part shed. Are you sure you saw the entire thing removed the first time?

Hard to say, they eat their skin about half a second. They haven't been shedding so much lately. I removed some rocks which I guess may have not been overly aquarium friendly? They were collected from a state park in a creek, some water worn nice looking rocks. I could just be paranoid though, who knows. I did treat the rocks and left them out in the sun to dry all summer I assumed they were safe.

[rodsboys]

I am sure the rocks are fine.

[mpmistr]

You're probably right. I am just a paranoid person when it comes to my tanks. Some of the rocks are huge, I'm hunting for a used 125 gallon to move my frogs into. Perhaps I will use them when I get that tank up and running (assuming I ever find a 125+ gallon tank).

[mpmistr]

After going over my tank and noticing some shed skin laying on plants (bad sign since my ACF always eat their skin) I decided to remove a suspect driftwood piece from my tank. It was purchased from an aquarium on craigslist and was used in a piranha tank for years and I left it out for the summer to dry out before adding it to my tank but......

It's soft and squishy, kind of smells like pond water and it was growing some rather blue/green looking algae (or cynobacteria..) on it. I believe it was rotting and irritating my frogs skin. They are very hungry and active frogs otherwise, but the shedding was bothering me a lot.

It looked very nice in the tank but if it's going to cause water condition problems, it has to go -- so it's gone.

Hopefully that was the cause and that resolves my problem.