American Green TF Skin Disease?

[scribbles]

Yes, if possible, both frogs need to be tested. I have never even had to take an amphibian to a vet, I'm sorry, can't tell you the relative cost.

[John]

Firstly, you can't tell a frog is suffering from chytrid just by looking at a photo of it. Is this frog eating regularly and well? It doesn't look thin. If its behaviour is normal, appetite is good and the frog is active, I wouldn't worry about it, just keep an eye on it in case things change.

[Paul Rust]

[QUOTE=John;18136]Firstly, you can't tell a frog is suffering from chytrid just by looking at a photo of it.QUOTE]

Agreed.

[Tripe46]

Firstly, you can't tell a frog is suffering from chytrid just by looking at a photo of it. Is this frog eating regularly and well? It doesn't look thin. If its behaviour is normal, appetite is good and the frog is active, I wouldn't worry about it, just keep an eye on it in case things change.

I feed him 3 to 4 times per week one of those times with the calcium supplement, he eats so much that my main concern up until now was that he was eating everything I put in the terrarium before the smaller "healthier" looking frog had a chance to get some grub for himself. Anyway I appreciate your positive thinking John, as I really cannot afford to take him to the vet at this point. Do you think its a good idea to keep them separated while I'm observing the "sick" frog?

[John]

Do you think its a good idea to keep them separated while I'm observing the "sick" frog?

There's no harm in it. I would like to see another photo of the frog from the side. Does the grey area feel different to the touch than normal areas of the back?

[scribbles]

I agree with John, I wouldn't panic as long as the frog is eating well and remains active.

[Kurt]

I have dealt with chytridiomycosis, its nasty. In my case the animal was a fire salamander, that had stopped hiding, was refusing to eat, was quite lethargic, and when handled bits of its skin would flake off in my hands. Where not talking about a normal shed that looks kind of like wet tissue paper or sort of like runny eggs. We are talking about flakes of skin, kind of like what you get after a bad sunburn, but these wet and black. It was like the salamander was disintegrating right before my very eyes.

In a case like this, a vet must be seen and that vet needs to take skin samples to be sent to a lab like the Center for Wildlife Disease at the University of South Dakota or the Center for Integrated Biotechnology of Washington State University. Once confirmed, the standard treatment is a daily bath in an itraconazole solution. I have used this drug, it is expensive and has a very short shelf life.

Other solutions are raising the temperture up for a few days or using Lamisil solution bath. Since these have not come reccomended by a vet, I am hesitant to use them.

Now what I think you may be dealing with could be a skin irriatation from housing more than one species together. That being said, I would still get it checked out. Where are you located? Maybe one of us can reccomend a vet in your area.

[Tripe46]

[Tripe46]

Oh and the discolored skin feels the same as healthy skin.