*Hello & Help*

[JButera]

Anyone know of a private African dwarf frog breeder or anyone here selling any captive bred adf's? Had no success with any bought from the 'big two' pet stores.

[Jenste]

You can always keep an eye on the Classified's section but I don't recall any postings as of late for ADF.

What type of set up do you have? Maybe we can help you along those lines as well. (Just ruling out any possible problems for future frogs )

And welcome to the forum!

[celticstarb]

I am just getting back into dwarfs. I recently picked up 4 boys and 6 girls. It will be several months before I will have any babies ready for new homes. First I need to get them into breeding condition.

[JButera]

several months? great Lol please put me on your list.

[celticstarb]

There's really no way to be sure unless you send the deceased frogs in for testing, which can get expensive. I would bet they probably died from being held at a distributor, then shipped to the pet store and never getting proper treatment at either place. Most of these places feed them fish food. Sometimes the stress of netting them, putting them in a bag, and transporting them is just the last straw.

I suggest bleaching your aquarium, decorations, and all equipment just in case it was chytrid or some other pathogen.

Send me a PM and I'll let you know when I get some tads so you can cycle your tank. I'll post in the classified section when I have them ready for sale.

[JButera]

I'm thinking chytrid was to blame based on symptoms, but like you said I'm really not sure without lab results. I tried to attach a pic of one of the deceased frogs but the site refused the pic.

[JButera]

Hi Jen and thanks, I can't be certain but I believe they all died from the Chytrid fungus. I bought 3 recently and one died in the bag on the way home and the other died in the tank about three hours later. The third one died about 5 days later. Water parameters didn't seem to be an issue since they were dying off long before the water could even become toxic.