Need advice, again.

[Kisa]

Apologies if someone has already mentioned this, but handling amphibians with any type of glove is something that should be avoided.

Amphibians can have adverse reactions when exposed, regardless of the material (latex, nitrile, vinyl, etc.), or presence or absence of powder. These types of gloves can retain manufacturing residues and can perpetuate epidermal tears.

I've found that the best route is limited handling with clean hands (completely rinsed), dried, and then moistened.

~Aja

Oh I haven't used the latex gloves since he was sick, but thanks for saying that, I never would have known. My vet used gloves when handling Bruce the first time, but the subsequent times after that she just picked him right up with dry hands to examine him. I trusted her though and she only helped him for a few minutes to examine him before setting him back down again so I didn't pull out my spray bottle. XD

But every time I've handled Bruce since then I've just rinsed my hands thoroughly with soap and water, made sure all the soap was gone and the soap smell had left my hands, dried them to the bone, then moistened them again with frog safe water from his spray bottle. I even spray him down a little so his skin doesn't stick to my hands and pull.

I only take him out if I have too...well no that's a lie, sometimes I just can't help myself. But I don't handle him every day and certainly not for long periods of time. It's usually anywhere between 3-10 minutes of ACTUAL holding, and I limit myself as best I can. He was sick recently and I find taking him out and checking on him every few days eases my mind that he won't get sick again.

[Sugar]

My vet used gloves when handling Bruce the first time, but the subsequent times after that she just picked him right up with dry hands to examine him.

Yeah it seems like the right thing to do! I had the same idea but some others with whom I was doing field work stopped me and told me what the gloves can do to amphibians. So I like to pass on the word.

But every time I've handled Bruce since then I've just rinsed my hands thoroughly with soap and water, made sure all the soap was gone and the soap smell had left my hands, dried them to the bone, then moistened them again with frog safe water from his spray bottle. I even spray him down a little so his skin doesn't stick to my hands and pull.

That's what I do too : ]

[Kisa]

Yeah it seems like the right thing to do! I had the same idea but some others with whom I was doing field work stopped me and told me what the gloves can do to amphibians. So I like to pass on the word.



That's what I do too : ]

Oh alrighty. XD I wasn't planning on using the gloves anyway after I heard that he couldn't be harmed from my cold or any other illnesses I may have, I was just concerned with skin-to-skin contact since frogs use that organ to drink, I didn't want him "drinking in my illness", as it were. But now that I know he can't be harmed from that stuff I definitely won't be using the gloves unless I feel them completely necessary for a short period of time. I was a little worried about touching his open wounds with my bear skin when he had the lesions on this leg so I think if he did get something like that again I wouldn't feel safe unless I used gloves. D:

[Leefrogs]

oh dogshrik, dont take it went! Itsbeen 2 weeks since u joined and u r first post was like what frog to get. So no decision yet? I thaught kisa and had u sold on whites. What r u doing for a tank or whatever, no matter what yr getting, u should be setting up already. Just curious

[Dog Shrink]

oh dogshrik, dont take it went! Itsbeen 2 weeks since u joined and u r first post was like what frog to get. So no decision yet? I thaught kisa and had u sold on whites. What r u doing for a tank or whatever, no matter what yr getting, u should be setting up already. Just curious

that was a little difficult to read but I jjust kinda filled in the blanks with what I thought you meant so I hope I'm answering this right...

I didn't really get a whole lot of responses in my "what to get" thread, so I've been doing the research on my own on the types we were interested in. In doing that research is when we came across tiger salamanders watching youtube videos of frogs (don't ask me how they came up I have no idea), The boy saw those and was like oooh... asked me about them, what they ate etc, and was really excited about them becauase they eat earthworms (well that and their tiger colors) and he LOVES digging up earthworms, and the whole frog thing kinda wained a bit as he went all OCD on salamanders so that's why we're still up in the air about things.

When we do decide tho I have a 20 gallon tall aquarium that would be set up all nice and proper like for whatever species will occupy it. I want to decide first as I'm sure there's some different set up requirements depending on species of frog/toad that will go in there, and the 20 long I have for the salamander is currently occupied with a mediterranean gecko that stowed away on one of the oil meters that was shipped to my hubby's shop from Huston, so until I set up the 10 gallon we have that was suppose to be for a gold fish for the gecko we're kinda in a hiatus. Geesh that sounds like playing musical tanks doesn't it