QUOTE=SethD;37220]Captive bred or captive raised froglets rarely are seriously harmed by parasites. For one thing captive conditions are not usually condusive to developing a very heavy infestation, and for another thing frogs can usually handle even heavy infestations unless they become ill or heavily stressed out due to something else. There tends to be two major reasons why CB froglets die before adulthood. One, improper nutrition, and two contamination from housing them with sick WC frogs. Occasionally a frog will just morph weak and never do well or will develop some other type of problem but from what I have seen the majority of CB froglets that are lost were lost due to one of those two main reasons I mentioned.[/QUOTE]
Thanks Seth, any and all info in greatly appreciated.
So I understand, the parasites are usually not the "primary" problem, but are problematic only with a secondary infection (like Chytrid or other bacterial infections). This secondary infection can create the stress that causes the intestinal parasitic "bloom" and or the stress from changing conditions (buying a new frog), which can also cause the secondary inf. (Chytrid or bacterial inf.) to become evident, activate or worsen significantly. So basically it's the secondary infection (Chytrid or bacterial inf.) that will kill the frog, but the intestinal parasites can weaken the already ill frog and complicate it's treatment of the infection? I would also assume that you would need to rid the frog of the intestinal parasite before effectively treating the frog for the Chytrid, etc, especially if the treatment is given orally? If you give the treatment orally the worms will eat or absorb the medication so the frog will be unable to receive an effective dose to rid it of the infection..or am I stretching here? I am also assuming that the treatment for the intestinal parasites are a mild poison?, and giving the sick frog a treatment to rid it of the parasites, while treating it for another infection maybe lethal in itself?.......It's sounding very confusing and a really bad situation for the frog!!!! The CB frogs usually get these secondary infections from cross contamination from other CB frogs or untreated WC frogs. Have I got this right? BTW all my frogs are wild caught I took in a few weeks after they morphed and left my pool. I have not gotten them dewormed, but all are eating and seem healthy. Do you have any suggestions or thoughts whether I should have them dewormed or any other prophylaxis?

(another one of my pointless stories, but interesting)
This is very similar with people. We can live with parasites for...well our entire lives never having any serious problems (as long as they remain in the intestines), but if the person has say a autoimmune disease or gets a bad and long term virus, like MRSA, the worms will grow and reproduce (I've seen this in a man who came from India. He had every inch of his lg and sm intestine packed with worms I saw on a Upper & lower gi aka barium enema. Under fluoroscopy (continuous X-rays in real time) they were moving and wiggling around...YUCK!!!). He was just extremely thin and malnourished, but otherwise fine.
This may be invaluable info when and if it happens to my frogs, so I'd really like to understand it all now. Thanks again Seth for letting me pick your brain.