Does my frog have redleg?

[monster]

Hey, how cold is the glass underneath the substrate? I find when my guys burrow right down to the glass and sit there for a few days if the glass is really cold it makes them under side look red/pinkish. Have you noticed if he stays up for a bit it goes away?

[Bynny Ribbit]

If he is acting normally, I'm more inclined to believe the pinkness is irritation of some kind. Redleg is actually a symptom of different kinds of infection in a frog, so the likelihood of him presenting redleg and no other symptoms is very unlikely.

[Sajuuk Khar]

If he is acting normally, I'm more inclined to believe the pinkness is irritation of some kind. Redleg is actually a symptom of different kinds of infection in a frog, so the likelihood of him presenting redleg and no other symptoms is very unlikely.

Ok thats good to know. Thanks.

[Sajuuk Khar]

Hey, how cold is the glass underneath the substrate? I find when my guys burrow right down to the glass and sit there for a few days if the glass is really cold it makes them under side look red/pinkish. Have you noticed if he stays up for a bit it goes away?

I am not sure how cold the glass is, I have heat pad underneath but I am not using it. Perhaps I should hook it back up again. I assume the glass is colder than room temp. I do heat up the whole room for them so not sure how cold the glass is. I am going to hook up a probe and find out.

He has been underground for about a month and half. so maybe thats why its irritating his skin? He hasnt come out and sat on top so I cant see if the redness goes away.

I do have an orante who is doing the same thing (underground for a month) but when I check him he has no redness at all.

[Grim FrogBreeder]

It is not red leg, but pre-red leg stadium. Bath it in water, change substrate, make tank clean. Red-leg is caused by overgrowth of microflora of frogs skin, caused by not clean enough tanks or overpopulation of frogs, like in case of my Trachycephalus nigromaculatus frogs. It is harmless at this stage, just showing you need to do a better cleaning.

[Sajuuk Khar]

It is not red leg, but pre-red leg stadium. Bath it in water, change substrate, make tank clean. Red-leg is caused by overgrowth of microflora of frogs skin, caused by not clean enough tanks or overpopulation of frogs, like in case of my Trachycephalus nigromaculatus frogs. It is harmless at this stage, just showing you need to do a better cleaning.

I first noticed the redness maybe 2 months ago. At that time, I changed the substrate and disinfected the tank as best I could. Now a month and half later the redness is the same or maybe worse. The frog has been underground that whole time so he is not defecating or urinating so the substrate is not getting dirty. I am not sure how much cleaner I can get it. I gave him a soak yesterday when I took those pictures.

[Grim FrogBreeder]

Hmm that's strange, it shouldn't be there this way. You are sure it is not the frogs natural colour of legs?

[Sajuuk Khar]

Hmm that's strange, it shouldn't be there this way. You are sure it is not the frogs natural colour of legs?

The pink on the legs is normal he has always had that. My concenr is the redness under the belly and the throat. He never had that before. And now he seems to have a really dark red spot in the middle of the throat that is also alarming as it was not there before.

[BossFrog]

What kind of frog is he? Grim FrogBreeder is right it could be natural color. As for throat/belly, can you post a better picture of that area? Frog's fat kinda covers it up XD