Frog Help

[crail4]

I've been told that if i ad a new frog to my enclosure i have to quarantine that frog for 3 months i don't have the space to do this but i would like to ad some more green tree frogs to my collection i was just wondering what my options were?

 

[hnn17]

you could buy more frogs from the same breeder, or get another enclosure

 

[cadwallader]

jungle male

the risks are that the new frogs will be caring some transmittable, disease or parasite and therefore all of your animals are at risk of catching it, to be honest if you happy to take that risk just throw him in, but i would suggest keeping him separate for at least a week...

just because your buying from the same breeder you did, doesnt mean that their collection is still clean.

although im not 100% on frog health issues

 

[crail4]

Yeah chytrids bad i heard about that didnt realise it was in captive frogs aswell can any amphibian get chytrid or just frogs?

Sorry nevermind i remember hearing about hellbenders carrying chytrid fungus

 

[Bluetongue1]

There are two major diseases of concern – chytridriomycosis = the disease caused by the fungus; and a viral disease. The virus is still fairly rare thankfully. However, chytrid fungus is not. There is also a variety of other diseases that frogs can get that are not so devastating but some of which you might confuse with chytridriomycosis if you do not known what to look for.

If caught early enough chytridriomycosis is treatable. Here is the best website around for giving you the info required and helping you to understand what quarantining can do: http://www.fdrproject.org.au/disease...reatment.shtml

It would not be hard to set up a container to hold your new frog for the required time. A plastic storage box - $10 to $15 from Bunnings, Red Dot etc. most Australian frogs do not require access to sizeable pool of water unless you want to breed them. They are primarily terrestrial – almost none are true aquatics. A water bowl and a daily misting is sufficient, especially if you use a bit of water retentive substrate. You won’t need heating indoors at this time of year. Nor will you need individualised lighting for three months. Just do your cleaning bit and store the container wherever it can get a bit of daylight (indirect of course) during the day and darkness at night. This could be on top of your wardrobe if you are that desperate for space. An appropriate sized curved branch with a fork so that it sits up off the floor, some pieces of paper bark sown at one end to form a little cave, which can then be soaked in water and used as moist hides (re-wet as required). Nothing heavy or dangerous in the container, such as rocks, and your frog will be fine.

Feed it, clean the cage, change the water regularly – all the things you would normally do. Surely you can manage to do that? If not, than I would strongly recommend limiting your frog collection to that which you currently hold!

Blue