American Green TF Skin Disease?

[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.

[Kurt]

Its not coming off in your hands, is it?

[daziladi]

In Las Vegas a visit to the vet + medicine cost a little over $100 and he was better in 10 days. The money thing is an issue for many of us, but you'll forget about the money crunch after he's feeling better.

[John]

I think the frog is fine - just some quirky genetics or something.

[Tripe46]

Update. This frog is always hanging out on the fake rock background in the terrarium, or he has just leaped from it. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and saw him sitting on the log in the center of the cage for once, so I flicked on the light and he was just about as green as the other frog I had pictured. Weather the background has something to do with it or not he seems fine so I put the frogs back together.

[scribbles]

Glad to hear it.