Help! Red Eye Tree Frog problem!! Red Wounds on belly.

[kittysolo]

I have another frog now with the same red wound on his foot. I feel so helpless.

I started Cipro drops yesterday, I can give it to them without having to disturb them which is really nice. I moved the tanks from my living room to my kitchen so they can be as undisturbed as possible. I also covered up the sides of the tanks with cardboard to try to keep them even more isolated. The kitchen still gets a lot of light, so I think I'm going to cover up the windows too.

I have been told to clean out the tanks with diluted bleach, and read on a site to change the paper towels everyday. I haven't to avoid further stressing them, but do you think its a good idea? The new frog that has the wound (Charlie) was in a different tank, but was housed with Bernard(sick guy on post) till Sat (and that tank was put together a week before). I'm wondering if there's some sort of bacteria that was left behind which caused Charlie to become sick too.

When Eloise got this this last week within 2 days she was covered in hemorrhages, Bernard has not developed any new ones, but the ones hes gotten have gotten worse everyday.

Day one is pictured above.

Day three:


Day four:


This is Charlie today

[Leefrogs]

I really feel for you. Bleach has to be rinsed really well. Like 2/3times. And diluted allot, like 1-10 parts water. If you can smell the bleach in the cage, that's not good. Bleach leaves a residue, that could be sticking around. When I deep clean , I dunk in bleach/water, scrub, and soak in water for 10X longer than they were in the bleach. For spot cleaning I use vinegar water. Vinager evaporates faster than water and leaves no residue.

I'm glad you've covered the cages this may aide in recovery.
Maybe change to spring water while they're in treatment.
But now after all this, it could've started with the bleach.

[kittysolo]

Maybe change to spring water while they're in treatment.
But now after all this, it could've started with the bleach.

I have not bleached, the tank was cleaned with Healthy Habitat cleaner originally, and when I removed Bernard from the tank with Charlie and Faraday on Sat I did not clean the tank.
I was asking if I should clean the tank now, or just leave them alone?

I've been using reverse osmosis water, is spring water better for them?

[Kurt]

Oh yeah don't use reverse ossmosis water. This could be part of the problem. Mist with distilled water and fill the water bowl(s) with either dechlorinated tap or spring water.

Clean out the tank and all its funiture with a bleach/water solution, about a 1:10 ratio. Rinse thoroughly and rinse with water with dechlorinator in it. Wooden items cannot be bleached, but you can boil or bake them. Plastic cannot be boiled or baked, but can be bleached.

Lastly get these guys to the vet.

[kittysolo]

Lastly get these guys to the vet.

Been to the vet already, their on a Ciprofloxacin prescription right now. I'll bleach their tanks tonight, everything's glass or plastic in their tanks.

Everything I read online is different, about their care. I'll switch to spring water, I've been using distilled water in the 29g's fogger, I'll start using that in the mister too.


Thank you so much!

[kittysolo]

Just finished bleaching the tanks. Really worried that both Bernard and Charlie started bleeding. A wound on Charlies foot opened up, and I'm not sure what exactly bleed on Bernard. I swabbed them with neosporin before I put them back in their tanks.
Oy vey! I really hope that was worth it!
I switched them to spring water too.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Kurt]

Time will tell. Good luck and you're welcome.