*Sigh*....

[Lija]

Sorry for not being around, but I was told about this thread...

Lisa... I'm not going to be nice right now. In any circumstances you should not be happy with Mike and frankly when someone is selling chytrid carriers or sick frogs, he or she goes into black list of sellers who should not be trusted. I would be a bit less angry if that would be WC frogs, but absolutely not when it is cb. I would request him to compensate for all your expenses, including testing everybody in your collection and treating if nessesary as minimum remedy. But even then....

Chytrid is not everywhere, but it's one of the most devastating deseases that swipe clean entire populations in a wild, and could be extremely devastating in captive collections. Careless sellers and breeders, like it seems Mike is, contributing to spreading a desease and people like that are the reason for government officials want to ban keeping amphibians. One of the important principles of exotic keeping is being responsible and care for environment, making sure nothing that leaves your premises is a danger to anything or anyone. if you fail and then downplay it - you are not I will ever deal with or suggest anyone to. It doesn't matter what kind of biocontrol measures are in a facility, if they fail, they are not sufficient.

Say you have one frog, you don't do qt or testing (only few people do that unfortunately), you flush used water, you wash whatever you use without bleaching it out, well of course not, how would you know otherwise. Say you have a frog from Mike... So now you are are possible reason chytrid is killing amphibians where you live. Now considering he shops all over the states.....

thank you for reading this is a short version of what I have to say lol