Problems with my western toads.. Chytrid suspected (pics)

[Namio]

Chytrid is challenging to identify (usually requires tissue analisys) and even when some frogs have developed immunity to it

Actually Carlos, no frog species known to date is immune to chytridiomycosis. There are several frog species that are highly resistant to chytrid infection but no amphibian is actually immune to it.

[Mentat]

Actually Carlos, no frog species known to date is immune to chytridiomycosis. There are several frog species that are highly resistant to chytrid infection but no amphibian is actually immune to it.

Thank you! My sentence should read then "Chytrid is challenging to identify (usually requires tissue analisys) and even when some frogs have developed resistance to it, they remain carriers."

[toadman]

Thank you very much for your guys' advice, I guess the only thing I can do now is just wait and see

[demon amphibians]

when it comes to wild caught toads and frogs, they have a very high chance of having red leg. Their immune system may keep it at bay and be unnoticeable but when introduced to stress it lowers the toads immune system and the red leg symptoms will set in. From what i can see it does not seem like red leg but i have never seen it in that particular species so I cant tell. Usually it starts with red and brownish spots on the under side of the frog or toad then its coloration will turn pale. shortly after it will become lethargic and wont eat. that is when the legs will start to turn blood red but usually when your frogs legs start turning red it will be fatal within a day or two. also with my encounters of red leg my frogs did not shed there skin. They lost all there slime and started to dry out even when soaking in water. with toads this will be a symptom you may never see. The coloration of your toads underside looks normal to me however i am not a vet and i am not inclined to make such judgements. But what i do know for a fact that the signs of red leg on the underside are very unique.

[CJ PELCHER]

I just lost a frog due to red leg... demon is completely right. THEY WILL NOT SHED when they have chytrid fungus. Mine took about 9 days to pass on and i brought mine to vet to try FORTEX an antibiotic which had no effect what so ever... Then tried a saltwater bath but it was too late in the stage for that to change. As of now to my knowledge there is NO SOLID CURE for this disease.

[demon amphibians]

I just lost a frog due to red leg... demon is completely right. THEY WILL NOT SHED when they have chytrid fungus. Mine took about 9 days to pass on and i brought mine to vet to try FORTEX an antibiotic which had no effect what so ever... Then tried a saltwater bath but it was too late in the stage for that to change. As of now to my knowledge there is NO SOLID CURE for this disease.

Sorry to hear about dixie. It is very frustrating being helpless to do anything when it comes to red leg. There are many ways to prolong life but it always ends the same way.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

There is a Documentary called The Thin Green Line that has a lot of info on how the Chytrid fungus has effected the frog population of the world and how some are trying to fight it.
Video: Frogs: The Thin Green Line | Watch Nature Online | PBS Video

[demon amphibians]

that was very moving! very very good.. lets put the severity of this into perspective so some may better understand the impact of this Chytrid Fungus. If there were a disease out there similar to Chyrtid that infected humans. It would be a plague of biblical proportions. imagine an infection that could do this to us. This would exceed the impact of the black plague, so to speak in those times of course, which killed almost 50 percent of the worlds population. Chytrid which as wiped out 60 percent of the worlds population of frogs (if i read it right/ kinda hard to believe). of course we cant compare a humans immune system with a frogs. But none the less that is how serious Chytrid is to the frogs of the world. And it is something that must not be ignored.

[Namio]

[QUOTE=CJ PELCHER;176106THEY WILL NOT SHED when they have chytrid fungus.[/QUOTE]
Excessive sloughing is one of the symptoms of chytridiomycosis due to the nature of hyperkeratosis that the amphibian HAS to slough of skin to stay alive. On the other hand, if they don't shed it is likely that the disease isn't caused by chytrid.

[CJ PELCHER]

mine had the bursting blood vessels on the belly... the "TELL TALE SIGN OF chytrid"