Unwell African Clawed Frog

[tgampper]

I am not a vet, but based on your description, I think it is a bacterial infection. You will need to isolate the frog and get it to the vet as soon as possible. If you want to try a treatment and can handle the frog safely, try swabbing Bactine or another topical antibacterial ointment (no Betadine) on the wound. If it is a minor infection, it can take about 5 days to clear up. But as always, you need to get a second opinion from an vet. The vet will be able to isolate the cause of infection. Once you find out what is causing the infection, Paul has an excellent frog first aid sheet on the forum (look under the Care Info) menu. Good luck!

[ross800m]

Hello again,
Unfortunately despite my best effort wee Hurley passed away yesterday. I had tried using an anti internal bacterial but she didn't improve in the end. Hopefully young Sawyer will manage as a widower now, as I think he may try to eat any froglets if I were to get any.
Thanks for your help and advice, there just aren't enough specialist vets around it seems!

Ross

[tgampper]

Hello again,
Unfortunately despite my best effort wee Hurley passed away yesterday. I had tried using an anti internal bacterial but she didn't improve in the end. Hopefully young Sawyer will manage as a widower now, as I think he may try to eat any froglets if I were to get any.
Thanks for your help and advice, there just aren't enough specialist vets around it seems!

Ross

Sorry to hear of your loss. Hopefully your other frog will do just fine. In general, clawed frogs are very hardy animals and immuned to many diseases that inflict other frogs. I believe that decades of captive breeding and use in genetic and biomedical testing may have weakened their immune systems so that new frogs do not have the capability to fight off disease. Good luck with Sawyer.

[Kurt]

Sorry for your loss.