Hi There,
I need some help, does anybody know anything about these little creatures?
I have two albino African Clawed frogs male and a female, I don't know much about their history because I just happened to be in the pet shop when their previous owner came in looking to off load them before going away to uni and I took pitty upon them.
From what little she told me about them, I don't think they were cared for very well. She told me the female was "all puffy" and that she used to poke her
convinced this wasn't quite right I did some research on the internet and found out that she wasn't "puffy" she was infact suffering from a serious case of Dropsy, I have been treating this for a while with regular doses of Anti-Internal Bacteria (Aquarium Treatment 9) most of her still looks like she is going to explode at any minute, the poor thing has thighs like space hoppers, but there are patches that appear... shriveled, under her chin has gone down to the point where the spare skin looks like a third lip (no joke).
Their care has been an on going learning process for me, my main concern at the moment though is my females' eye. It's the right one as you look at it (her left), the outter lense and the pupil (the red dot in the middle) on the other eye both appear to be convex, the outter lense on her left is convex but the pupil is flat.
I'm wondering if she is blind in that eye, or if the other one is swollen for some reason, the dropsy maybe?
In other respects she seems fine, she is more active and friendly than the male and they mated a few months ago, produced eggs then ate them. The male has come into season a couple of days ago (the pads on his forearms have gone black) so I'm hoping there will be eggs again, this time I will seperate them.
If anybody has any useful information etc on either the dropsy or the weird eye thing I would be very greatful.
I'll try and get some pictures up.
I need some help, does anybody know anything about these little creatures?
I have two albino African Clawed frogs male and a female, I don't know much about their history because I just happened to be in the pet shop when their previous owner came in looking to off load them before going away to uni and I took pitty upon them.
From what little she told me about them, I don't think they were cared for very well. She told me the female was "all puffy" and that she used to poke her
convinced this wasn't quite right I did some research on the internet and found out that she wasn't "puffy" she was infact suffering from a serious case of Dropsy, I have been treating this for a while with regular doses of Anti-Internal Bacteria (Aquarium Treatment 9) most of her still looks like she is going to explode at any minute, the poor thing has thighs like space hoppers, but there are patches that appear... shriveled, under her chin has gone down to the point where the spare skin looks like a third lip (no joke).Their care has been an on going learning process for me, my main concern at the moment though is my females' eye. It's the right one as you look at it (her left), the outter lense and the pupil (the red dot in the middle) on the other eye both appear to be convex, the outter lense on her left is convex but the pupil is flat.
I'm wondering if she is blind in that eye, or if the other one is swollen for some reason, the dropsy maybe?
In other respects she seems fine, she is more active and friendly than the male and they mated a few months ago, produced eggs then ate them. The male has come into season a couple of days ago (the pads on his forearms have gone black) so I'm hoping there will be eggs again, this time I will seperate them.
If anybody has any useful information etc on either the dropsy or the weird eye thing I would be very greatful.
I'll try and get some pictures up.
I've got two of these little beasties and from what your tell us, they weren't cared for properly at all! Clawed frogs grow to about 6", sometimes larger, sometimes smaller, they're not picky eaters but turtle sticks seem to be a favorite food for them. I supplement in frozen blood worms and sinking shrimp pellets to my two some time, each frog should have atleast 10gallons of space, although at a juvi size (0-2.5") a 10gallon will do for the two of them. Watch for canabalisim, as it tends to happen, although they rarely succed, they enjoy earthworms, and when full grown will even eat larger fish.
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