My ACF died :( ... think it might have had bloat?

[AlbinoFroggy]

Hey,
I have housed my African Clawed Frogs for about a month or so now. From an earlier thread I mentioned that one frog "Squish" was bigger than the other "squash". I thought it was because I had a male and female, and the larger frog tended to eat alot more. Yesterday I noticed the smaller one wasn't moving as much and kept at the top of the tank on the surface in the leaves. I cleaned the tank and the smaller frog "squash" still wasn't moving alot, only into the tank and settled. Later when feeding, the larger frog ate, however the smaller one hadn't and didn't acknowledge that the food was in the tank, i moved some towards the smaller frog but still didn't eat.

Unfortunatly this morning i found it had died My boyfriend who knows more than me about amphibians had a look, we both agreed it's from something internal. We think he might have had bloat from the pet shop because he didnt have such an appetite as the bigger one and he didnt grow like the other.

I know alot of people on here will know more than us, so I would like to check/ here your thoughts on how it might of died. I took some pictures for you to see.

[AlbinoFroggy]

sorry, the images didn't show up. Sorry images didn't show up.

[tgampper]

Sorry to hear about your frog. I don't think it was bloat that killed your frog. I noticed some reddish patches around the vent that seems to indicate there was a bacterial infection. The frog doesn't seem bloated at all. Some of the symptoms of a bacterial infection is reddish areas on the skin, lethargic, and refusing to eat. Once the symptoms appear, often death occurs suddenly within a few days. There is not very much you can do as far as treatment. Try adding some salt to the water (one teaspoon of "sea salt" per gallon), ACFs are quite salt tolerant and it may prevent bloating.

[AlbinoFroggy]

Yeh that makes more sense tbh, it stayed on the top of the water for the majority of the time and very rarely dived to bottom.
Thankyou

[Paul Rust]

I had the same impression Terry. I was leaning toward a parasitic problem, I was hoping you would see this as you have more experience with these guys. Anyway, I agree with Terry that it looks normal as far as bloating goes.

[AlbinoFroggy]

Recent Information Guys:

my boyfriend just rung the pet store he bought them from, he had told them all the information you kindly gave us regarding squish, and the man on the phone blamed it on our care. not only does my boyfriend keep c.orientalis he knows alot about the care of amphibians. i am disgusted/ that the store have stirred away from their responsibility at adressing a viral outbreak.

[Paul Rust]

Remember that we are making educated guesses here. Without testing we can't make any difinitive statements. I don't know what killed the frog, I just know what might have.