Is Pig ill? :.l

[victorsgrace]

Okay. She only told me that she's treated alot of individuals, that were bought from Germany, which had this disease. (She has Agatoads herself privately).

No she didn't swab first - I'm not sure which tests she can do at her space, but she said if he was to be tested for it, he'd need to be sedated, for one of the puss filled glands to be opened to extract enough infected material to determine, if that's his condition. In DK she's the most experienced herp vet I can come by and she lives about an hour away from me. She specialises in reptiles but has experience in amfibians.

Allright. Thank you, I wasn't aware. He was a bit malnourished when I bought him, and pr. what I've read up on it, it can come from contaminated food or water, especially if the animal is underfed, stressed out and kept in not propper conditions. When I bought him he was delivered in a small, plastic box with wet toiletpaper, that he'd been on all day during the expo, without any hiding places or means of shadow. So he might aswell have been a carrier from home, or caught an airborne version directly at the expo.

Thank you - me too :./ The underside of his theighs are reddish, which concerns me most, but he's eating, active and poops as he's supposed too.
Pt. I keep him in sterile conditions, but he has a cave, a water bowl and a big, bushy plastic plant to hide in and feel normal in, so the tank isn't bare.

[Ratz]

Sorry for my scepticism in the post before - it sounds more reasonable with your further explanations. I hope you can keep the diseases on a low level. I know thats possible with fishes, but (luckily) dont have experiences with Mycobacterioses in Amphibians.

I have seen the vendors displays in Hamm, this should be no problem for a healthy animal, if its for one or two days. More problematic are suboptimal conditions and stress over long time periods. It is always a risk to buy Amphibians at expos or in the pet trade as you never know how the animal were kept before. Best is to go to a breeder directly.

Wish you good luck!

[victorsgrace]

It's allright and duely noted. I was sceptical myself at first (by the way, I mailed her earlier today and she told me the reason she didn't wan't to swob is that both testing methods are exspensive for her 'cause they send their tests to America and that the swobbing method is not as presisce and might not give her enough of a sample to conclusively estimate the bacteria culture).

Okay. Well I know that, then. I have no clue of how he's been housed "at home", but he was close to the undernourished side, when I bought him. For future means I think I'll anyway bring a real, clean fauna box with me to transport any future aquirements home.
- Yes. I agree now

Thank you! I'll post updates here now and then. We'll see how it goes.

[victorsgrace]

Hey guys. An update on Pig: he is doping allright and we're keeping the infection down as best we can.

However he hasn't pooped for close to three weeks now :/ I've tried Warming baths for up to an hour (temperated and not hurtfull to him, ofcourse) but nothings going on. There is a definite risk that his infection already is so severe that it's damaged his organs, so this could be why.

He is still feeding well and not lethargic at all.

Do any of you have any other advise to make him go?

[victorsgrace]

- Nobody has any advise?

[Raya]

First of all, sorry to hear about your toad being ill.

Over at the pacman-section alot of owners with constipated frogs give them a warm bath with a few drops of honey in it. That should supposedly work but I've never tried myself.
Best of luck!

[kueluck]

I've found that feeding wax worms or night crawlers seem to help "move" things along. So sad to read about your toad and I just want to say thank you for not giving up on Pig. All toads deserve a keeper like you.