A sudden and sad death...

[UncleChester]

Sorry for your loss.

I'll probably pick up a box of powdered gloves ASAP,

It was probably a typo, but make sure they are NON-powdered gloves, and rinse them in your frog safe water before going to work. Vinyl are recommended if you will be handling tadpoles. The nurses know of what they speak

To think of it, Levi, Thermidor, Gnag, Bumpy, and possibly even the salamanders may all be infected with Chytrid, because, knowing that bullfrogs, Pacific Chorus frogs and (most likely) Green frogs are resistant to the fungus..

I'd be interested in hearing anything about Green Frogs and chytrid resistance that you've seen.

[Gnag the nameless]

It was probably a typo, but make sure they are NON-powdered gloves, and rinse them in your frog safe water before going to work. Vinyl are recommended if you will be handling tadpoles. The nurses know of what they speak

I'd be interested in hearing anything about Green Frogs and chytrid resistance that you've seen.

Oh, my bad! Sometimes this keyboard slips up on me, or I don't doublecheck. Yes, non-powdered gloves.

I'm not sure, but considering how high the Green frog and Bullfrog population seems to be in Vancouver and where I live, and that Chytrid is apparently present in Vancouver, as well as how similar Green frogs are to bullfrogs, it may be possible that they, too, are resistant.

I'll try and do some fieldwork for you if I can, see if I can find a Chytrid-infected area and search for Green frogs, not just bullfrogs. I already have seen the effects of what the introduction of bullfrogs has done to the Red Legged frog population, but I'm curious to know if any at my local lake are infected. If they are, then the huge population of salamanders, Chorus frogs, and Red legged frogs not a Km away may be in serious danger, which I'd immediately report to the BC Frogwatch.

[Bombina Bob]

Im so sorry about Nivose Caspian it sounded like chytrid.

[kueluck]

sorry about your loss