ADF with dying foot/leg?

I have had two ADFs for about 8 months now in a 20 gal long (heated, filtered, planted) with a male betta. Both seem happy and healthy. While at pet supplies plus today, I just had to go through the fish section and I saw they had ADFs in the same small tank as ACFs. I have no experience with ACFs but I was always told that they would eat ADFs, so I felt I had to take the two ADFs. They were skinny, but looked fine otherwise. The employee found a third ADF while trying to catch the two I had seen, so I took that one too. I have another 20 gal (heated and filtered) that is just housing plants and snails and figured I'd put them in there. I fed them before adding them to the tank, so I'm not sure if I just overlooked this or if this somehow happened in the 7 hours I've had them. One frog's foot is whitish, or lacking color. The webbing looks clamped and I noticed what is possibly the bone showing. For lack of a better description, it looks like the foot is dying. Higher up the leg, on the knee area, there's some type of growth that looks like it could be bacterial or fungal. The leg doesn't seem to move much when he swims around, but he is active and eating. Since I added them to the tank I've been watching them, so I don't think this happened since I've had him. My filter intake has a cover on it so their legs can't get sucked in. My gravel is very light, almost white, and I didn't notice the discoloration of his leg until he was floating at the top. I have separated him for now so that no diseases spread. (Excuse the food in the pictures, I fed him after I separated him to make sure he was still eating) Any ideas of what this is and is there anything I can do about it?

 

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Poor little thing
His front flipper doesn't look to well either.

Sadly once outside symptoms show it usually means whatever is wrong is pretty far along.
I can't say exactly what is it.

There aren't very many medications that are safe for frogs.
You could try maracyn 1 and 2 for bacteria infection and Maroxy for fungus (if it looks fuzzy)

Hard to say if you should treat right away or wait to see if it was an injury that he'll recover from.

Let's see what other frog keepers have to say.

 

Thanks for the quick response. I noticed that as well when I was looking at the pictures. I went back and took a look and the arm looks a bit underdeveloped, but he does use it. I thought I was saving them from getting eaten by ACFs, but this guy might be doomed anyway

 

Could be but at least you are trying.

Perhaps with good nutrition and care he'll show some improvement.
Being that they were all skinny this may have been a diet issue that is effecting him now.

Often poor water quality can effect the flippers that way.

Sorry I don't have concrete answers for you

 

If it is a nutrient problem you can try picking up some frog and tadpole food and feeding that to him sparingly along with his regular food. Just don't give too much as it can cause constipation. But it would have a lot of vitamins and minerals that your frog needs.

 

Good water conditions, good food (e.g. bloodworm, daphnia) and temp at 78F should see an easy recovery in this case I'm sure. I've had worse (from the retailer).

 

From the information I've been able to find, I think it's a fungus. I found a thread with very similar pictures, but they amputated the frog's leg and I'm not comfortable doing that. It was suggested that I try Pimafix on him, so I guess that's where I'll start.

 

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I don't know what is wrong with your frog, poor little thing as you did, I would keep him apart, keep his water clean.If you would like to go ahead with a fungus treatment, I would try Maroxy as mentionned by Lucy, not a lot of medication are good for frog and I have read conflicting opinions on the use of Pimafix with frogs. Hope for the best

 

How is your frog doing?