midna
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I know I just posted a thread earlier today about having only one froggy left, but now it looks like i'm going to have 0 froggies left.
this was my 5+ years male adf yesterday:
and this is him tonight:
y I k e s. i'm like 90% sure it's chytrid. okay, maybe 60%? at first I thought it might be dropsy because of the chin bubble and bloating, but... I don't know. maybe it is. the first frog I brought home from petsmart a little over a week ago was floating at the surface, lethargic, and looking maybe a teensy weensy bit bloated. she also had the same red spot by her eye, which grew overnight to go behind her eye before I said "Nope" and returned her to petsmart. I was a freaking idiot and immediately put her in the same tank as my current frog instead of quarantining her like I should have, effectively exposing my current frog to whatever illness this is, even if she was only in there for a little over a day. (dw, I'll definitely quarantine newbies next time. i'm not going through this again.)
so now he's showing the same signs: lots and lots of floating, sticking his head out of the water; I just saw him thrashing at the surface. he still goes down to the bottom and doesn't involuntarily start floating up like the first sick one was, but that's still not very comforting. he's much paler, too, and has those little inflamed blood vessels on the webbing of all four of his feet. btw, I did a 90% water change earlier today after I saw this drastic transformation. (I have seachem kanaplex but I don't know it's safe for adfs/will have any effect. I gave a dose to my last frog that was in quarantine and she died overnight. I dosed the tank with my frog that for sure had dropsy, and it didn't have any effect that I could see -- frog got worse and I had to euthanize her.)
if I can get it, I'll try a benzalkonium chloride soak tomorrow, but I fear it's probably too late for my poor boy. I feel so bad for him. i'm so sorry, bub. I thought this guy was gonna survive a nuclear blast and the resulting fallout with all he's been through.
this was my 5+ years male adf yesterday:

and this is him tonight:

y I k e s. i'm like 90% sure it's chytrid. okay, maybe 60%? at first I thought it might be dropsy because of the chin bubble and bloating, but... I don't know. maybe it is. the first frog I brought home from petsmart a little over a week ago was floating at the surface, lethargic, and looking maybe a teensy weensy bit bloated. she also had the same red spot by her eye, which grew overnight to go behind her eye before I said "Nope" and returned her to petsmart. I was a freaking idiot and immediately put her in the same tank as my current frog instead of quarantining her like I should have, effectively exposing my current frog to whatever illness this is, even if she was only in there for a little over a day. (dw, I'll definitely quarantine newbies next time. i'm not going through this again.)
so now he's showing the same signs: lots and lots of floating, sticking his head out of the water; I just saw him thrashing at the surface. he still goes down to the bottom and doesn't involuntarily start floating up like the first sick one was, but that's still not very comforting. he's much paler, too, and has those little inflamed blood vessels on the webbing of all four of his feet. btw, I did a 90% water change earlier today after I saw this drastic transformation. (I have seachem kanaplex but I don't know it's safe for adfs/will have any effect. I gave a dose to my last frog that was in quarantine and she died overnight. I dosed the tank with my frog that for sure had dropsy, and it didn't have any effect that I could see -- frog got worse and I had to euthanize her.)
if I can get it, I'll try a benzalkonium chloride soak tomorrow, but I fear it's probably too late for my poor boy. I feel so bad for him. i'm so sorry, bub. I thought this guy was gonna survive a nuclear blast and the resulting fallout with all he's been through.