Cheap Chytrid treatment options?

[frogparty]

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[markpulawski]

Chytrid usually kills within 48 hours of the symptoms showing up, in my experience frogs usually act fairly normal up to that point including eating. Good luck as it a plague on our hobby but thankfully over the last few years has been kept mostly in check.

[Brotherly Monkey]

Originally Posted by markpulawski

Chytrid usually kills within 48 hours of the symptoms showing up, in my experience frogs usually act fairly normal up to that point including eating. Good luck as it a plague on our hobby but thankfully over the last few years has been kept mostly in check.

How many people on the board do you think have had first hand experience with it?

I know I'm often surprised with how little it shows up in public discussion (making it seem like occurrences are rare), though that could be due to people being concerned about their rep, as well

[Ed]

Originally Posted by Brotherly Monkey

How many people on the board do you think have had first hand experience with it?

I know I'm often surprised with how little it shows up in public discussion (making it seem like occurrences are rare), though that could be due to people being concerned about their rep, as well

There are a number of reasons why we don't tend to see a lot of mortality from chytrid.. one of the first is that it doesn't kill the frogs unless the temperatures are under 75 F. The second is that if the frogs have access to warmer temperatures they can thermoregulate and keep the chytrid from killing the frog... The third is while the adults are infected, pulling the eggs and incubating them should reduce transmission onto the next generation, particularly since people tend to rear tadpoles singly (it can only infect the mouthparts of tadpoles so it doesn't kill them), and chytrid tend to rapidly kill metamorphs if they are kept under 75 F... This in general could be a reason why we don't see it more frequently in hobbyist reared frogs.. now frogs that are aquired through a importer or reseller or pet store are going to be at greater risk since some of those businesses may not engage in sufficient disinfection between groups of frogs or may group frogs from disparate sources together....

Some thoughts,
Ed

[Brotherly Monkey]

The only times I have came across it being mentioned (in a confirmed instance) here was in relation to imports, I believe

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[markpulawski]

Originally Posted by Brotherly Monkey

The only times I have came across it being mentioned (in a confirmed instance) here was in relation to imports, I believe

My only known instances, and there were several were all related to frogs imported from Europe, most of which died, including the first yellow Fants (now Summersi) to ever hit the states. The yellow Terribilis that is the basis for almost all in the US today were also European imports and tainted with Chytrid, luckily though I was able to spot it right away and with a 10 day Miconozal treatment save 5 out of the 8 frogs.

[Brotherly Monkey]

Originally Posted by markpulawski

My only known instances, and there were several were all related to frogs imported from Europe, most of which died, including the first yellow Fants (now Summersi) to ever hit the states. The yellow Terribilis that is the basis for almost all in the US today were also European imports and tainted with Chytrid, luckily though I was able to spot it right away and with a 10 day Miconozal treatment save 5 out of the 8 frogs.

One of the instances I read about on here concerned a recently imported red eye (wc, I assume). The other is from one of the sticky's on the subject, and I think that concerned imported leucs (wc)

PS what ever happened to that research project that was collecting swabs from peoples collections, did they ever publish the results?

[Ed]

Originally Posted by Brotherly Monkey

One of the instances I read about on here concerned a recently imported red eye (wc, I assume). The other is from one of the sticky's on the subject, and I think that concerned imported leucs (wc)

PS what ever happened to that research project that was collecting swabs from peoples collections, did they ever publish the results?

If you go to google and type in the search string "Dendroboard, chytrid" it turns up over 2,500 references on it, in threads ranging from how long it can hang around to potential modes of transportation to how it kills going back to at least 2006.


The paper is still in production.

Ed

[Brotherly Monkey]

I'm aware of discussions on the subject, I'm more talking about people actually identifying active infections in their collections. They seem to have been kept to a minimum

PS did you guys end up getting a good turn around on the swab kits you sent out?