Whites shedding problem??? plz help

[illadelfyaEAGLE]

I was away last weekend and when i got home i noticed a green blotch on my whites tree frog. My whites is almost always green but this time he was brown. During the next few days he turned green again and the blotch was brown. The temp is 83 during the day, humidity 60-65%. He is moving around and eating. Has anyone seen this before? If it is skin should i try and remove it? i don't want it to get infected or anything.

[tjtreefrog]

Unfortunately I'm not sure what this is, but if this is dead skin, I would try gently spraying him with room temp water to see if it helps loosen it. Sorry I can't offer much help. I wish you the best of luck with your White's.

[Leefrogs]

you need to have Kurt or Paul look at this. Imeadiatley!!!

[illadelfyaEAGLE]

whats the best way to contact them? I private messaged them but got no response.

[tjtreefrog]

Private messages should work. You could also go to their profile page and leave a visitor message. The thing that puzzles me about this spot is that it changes colors. I hope you get everything figured out.

[illadelfyaEAGLE]

The spot is drier then the rest of the frogs skin. I soaked him in a warm water and skin sloughed off, and there was a very tiny amount of blood around the margins of the spot, but almost barely noticeable. I put some neosporin on it

[Leefrogs]

bumping this one up to see how it's going,

[illadelfyaEAGLE]

My frog is acting 100% normal again. He was eating throughout this ordeal but at night he was less active(prob saving energy so he could heal), but last night he was bouncing around the terrarium every which way. To say i'm relieved is an understatement. The wound seems to be healing nicely. Warm water baths and applying neosporin seemed to help. I believe that the wound was caused by him wedging himself tightly against the styrofoam background of my exo terra and the top metal screen. I think that the delicate frog skin sinks into the screen and circulation is cut off and the tissue dies. I believe this because i saw him wedged there a day or two ago and i moved him. When I did I saw the beginings of same green blotch on the other side of the wound where his skin was in conntact with the screen. If any one has an exo terra with this styrofoam backgound and has a treefrog, I would advise them to block the two ledge areas at the top of the tank so the frog can't wedge himself against the screen.I also now i can get him a buddy as i was about to hold off due to the fear it was a bacterial/fungal infection. I didn't want this to happen again.

[Leefrogs]

oh it does look better. more identifiable, like scab instead of a hole. Good to hear. I'd jam that spot with moss or something. Mine had spots like dons pic, jamming themselves between corner of terrarium and big bamboo, so I had moved it farther away, and haven't seen it since. Like marks when u cross your legs for a while, but frog colored, LOL. I read somewhere they feel temp with bellies not their backs, so that explains why he didn't move soon enough. I hope u get a friend for him and all goes well. Thank u for posting and sharring, I'm also currious on size and known age of yr frog, mine are 21/2 and 3, Petco didn't know how old they were. I don't know when to cut back on calcium and feedings. Thanks in advance

[DonLisk]

Yes, that does look so much better.... I'll post a pic to show you why I think mine was more a burn or irritation...
Also, I don't ave any mold that I see in my substrate so not sure how it gets started,

My Whites like to sleep on the electrical outlet and the littlest one has his head right at the ceramic socket for the bulb... I had to move that but and make this socket not used.

[illadelfyaEAGLE]

Ginger&Lee, my frogs about 3 in. SV. I got him a year ago at petsmart and he was a shade under 2 in. I have no idea the age but i'm guessing he's about 2 yrs old, maybe less (i dunno how fast they grow in the first yr, i've seen some tiny ones at petsmart/petco).Since he's a male (he calls) I'm guessing he's about finished growing. I also read that blue phase whites (the australian sub species) is generally smaller than the indo's. As for feedings, it depends on the size of crickets that are available at the local pet store. For a while now they are fairly small (which isn't bad because the younger crickets have softer bodies, less hard chitin and wings). He'll eat around 4-6 every other day or so. I don't have a rigid feeding regimen really, i mean in the wild i'm sure hunting is hit or miss. I calcium feed once a week. I coat 3 crickets and hand feed as i have moss in the tank and moss is very sensitive to calcium. Recently i fed waxworms as i felt his tympanic ridges weren't robust enough, so he added some weight a bit.

Oh and Don, thats good news. I think in both our cases that the wounds are mechanical and not disease related, which is certainly a relief