One of our four whites had a 3 mm white lump on his tailbone today. Some white fluid came out leaving a hole. Will call the vet. In the meantime how should i treat this? He is eating but has seemed kind of thin recently, not thin but less fat. Thank you.
Took the frog to the vet. Vet did a culture. Said he saw white blood cells and bacteria in the microscope so put him on cipro drops until culture comes back. Frog has edema on his back legs and seems tired. Can climb up the glass. But appetite is reduced.
We have renamed Brownie Uncle Fester. He is moving around more and cheerfully ate six two week old crickets this morning. Am hoping he will recover.
Uncle Fester is improving i think. He ate five crickets tonight and one of his really swollen back legs is almost back to normal size. Am still applying cipro drops twice daily and waiting for the culture results.
Culture for Uncle Fester showed acinetobacter, klebsiella, and morganella morganii, all susceptible to cipo. He is continuing to improve. Alert, eating lots, bathing. Wound is getting better and his swollen leg is slowly diminishing in size.
Glad he is doing better!
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Uncle Fester continues to improve. His back legs are close to normal size. His wound has nearly healed. He still has a lump behind the wound but it is getting smaller every day. His appetite is normalizing (instead of a dozen or more crickets each day, he is happy with five or six...used to get two per day). He is active, friendly, soaks, and looks much happier. Am still treating with several cipro eye drops on his wound and back to be absorbed through his skin twice per day.
Uncle Fester has his energy back. Is pretty fat and has decreased his cricket consumption. One back leg is still a little swollen so the vet changed him from cipro topical to oral baytril.
Uncle Fester still has slightly swollen back legs but otherwise seems all better, after a lot of cipro and baytril. Now off meds.
Uncle Fester is still active and eating but i noticed some small white stuff that looked like cottage cheese on his rock. Upon examination, he has two small draining abscesses under his back legs. No odor. I cleaned him carefully. Am hoping the swelling in his legs is just draining. May take him back to the vet to see if he needs more antibiotics. But he is very active and eating extremely well.
Uncle Fester seems all better. No more signs of problems. Weighs as much now as his cage mate, Sumo.
Thanks for documenting at the process
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Sad news. Uncle Fester died today after a sudden two day illness. He had doubled his weight and was active and healthy until two days ago, when he would not eat. One back leg swelled up and a sore opened but there was no pus. Yesterday he got lethargic and he spit out crickets i fed him. Today the vet gave him injected antibiotics because his leg had turned green and white ( usually he was always brown). When i went to get him from the vet after work, a few hours after the vet examined him, he had died from sepsis. He did not have any pus. The vet cultured the clear fluid in his leg for bacteria and is having his poop analyzed for parasites. We are heartbroken. So is Sumo, his cage mate of a decade, who seems totally healthy. Vet said he did not have a heart beat and he is limp, but his jaws are tightly clenched. Any ideas on what happened would be appreciated. RIP Uncle Fester. He was a totally cool friendly frog.
So sorry for your loss. It's hard to work so hard to save something and then it dies anyway.
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