Quote Originally Posted by IgbyKibbits View Post
Hello guys.

So, I've gotten the results of the necropsy for Igby :sad: She died due to nodular pneumonia caused by lungworms. I'm a little surprised given that we did fecal cultures on both Igby and Kibbits! Wouldn't the worms have passed through and shown up in the culture? We definitely treated both Igby and Kibbits for all parasites that tested positive. Do you think it was just too late!?
Take what the vet tells you was the cause of death with a grain of salt, maybe that was the cause and maybe not, very very few vets know much about amphibians so in a necropsy it is not uncommon for them to blame it on something that is a symptom or accompanying issue rather than the primary cause of death. After all if your paying for a necropsy they don't really want to tell you "I don't know". Sometimes I think amphibian medicine is just slightly more advanced then human medicine was in the days where they often blamed malaria and yellow fever on "swamp vapors". Most of the time vets just give broad spectrum antibiotics or broad spectrum antifungal medication and if that works great, if not about 9 out of 10 times they have no more real idea what the problem is than you do. That is why I never bother taking sick frogs to vets unless I already have a good idea what the problem is and just need prescription meds that I couldn't otherwise get.

Why would lungworms cause spots on the skin?
They wouldn't.

We just don't want to lose anymore frogs : (
If the death was not not bacterial or fungal related chances are you will not if the other frogs appear healthy.