One Of My Dumpy Frogs Died Today

[fr0g9]

I'm very sorry for your frogs death . They like day warm day temps of 85F; but 90F is too high and could have contributed to death.

They prefer it in the 80s during the day, but please stop being paranoid 90F isn't going to hurt your frog in any way.

On a side note, the remaining frog was dark when I got him and then lighted to a green. He's been that way ever since. The one that just died had been staying a dark green and then over the past week had gotten some spotting. He was really spotted yesterday on his head and this morning he was bright green like the one still living is. I wasn't worried as I had read that these guys to change their colors and often get dappling. The color on my now dead frog was flush against the skin and not raised or indented, so I thought nothing of it. I think I might have pictures of it, but I'll have to dig through my recent photo imports. I'll get them up tomorrow.

Spots appearing that weren't there when you got him are a RED FLAG!! A description of picture of the spotting would do a lot of good right now. If the frog had dark spots that look like small ulcers, or large puffy grey spots that to turn lime green spots right before death, you are looking at a fungal infection. If the spots are small white specs that usually run up the back, you are dealing with a bacterial infection. Actually based on the temperatures you are providing us, there is little to no chance it's fungal because Chytrid requires lower temps in the 70's to spread. Small white spots can also be natural, but generally speaking, specks are smaller than spots and always point to a bacterial infection.

First things first, clean that tank out and clean it good. No telling when the last time the pet store did a full cleaning and actually removed everything from the tank (I would be willing to bet NEVER). Next thing you need to do is determine what type of infection the first frog had (or if it had one), and treat the second Frog accordingly.