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It's been a long time since I've written! I was out of the country for many months working, and then trying to get back in the swing of things.

Unfortunately, my two original frogs did not make it. After their passing, we did do a necropsy on the frogs, and they were both diagnosed with lungworms. Lung worms are a particularly horrible type of parasite that have a cyclical type of presentation in a frog. In other words, doing routine fecal samples does not always catch them. Frogs can get lungworms from exposure to already sickened frogs. We highly suspect that our two frogs got the lungworms before we even purchased them and brought them home from the store. This is why it is SO important to get your frogs from reputable breeders!!!

Here's the sad thing: lungworms are relatively easy to treat when they are caught at an early state. If you have a vet (if not, I highly recommend finding someone) I suggest doing a round of fecal samples. We did our fecal samples (for our new frogs) 3 times, in a month...about once every week. This way, we could try to catch any parasites, no matter the "cycle" they were in.

Please let me know, if you can, where you got your frog and how old he is. The irony, that we found out, is that younger frogs can live a long time with lungworms. Our frogs were almost a year when they passed away! The reason is because as babies, the lungworms are, in a sense, themselves "babies." They have not gone through enough cycles to overwhelm the frogs system. Hence, as they get older, the infestation also gets worse.

The sick frogs symptoms were as follows: always shedding, bright green spots (this is because of the weakened immune system!!! Imagine it like people who are very sick, and how they bruise really easily!), coughing type sounds, keeping the mouth open, not eating, lethargy.

As you can imagine, the lungworms make it very difficult for the little frog to breath.

Anyway, that's what happened with our two original frogs. I am happy to report that we now have three very healthy, very active, very personable frogs that constantly want attention and eat too much :P Oh, and in case anyone else reads this, we've found that green spots are just that...bruises in a sense. Just take it from our little frog Ori. He's constantly sliding among vines, hanging upside down and leaping precariously from branch to branch. Almost every night he has a different "green spot," but they go away usually within 24 hours...just like a bruise would.

HOPE THIS HELPS!!!