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So me and a friend (heatfreakk) decided to use the microscope that the local community college loaned me to do some fecals last night. WOW 
We found a little bit of everything.
First; the wild caught cobalts I just recieved which look awesome and are a great weight were full of ciliated protozoa and what looked like hook worms. A bit of bacteria too.
Second; heatfreakks wc cobalts were pretty clean. A mild number of protozoa. No giardia in any. The were all little globual ciliates. Maybe coccidia. Maybe something else.
Third; a healthy looking azureus had a bunch of the same or simular protozoa.
Third; from a healthy looking pair of citronellas. i think there were a few protozoa but there seemed to be an abundant amount of rod bacteria, both singular and chained together.
I am now going to get with a good vet after doing fecals on the rest of my frogs and quarentine and treat all of them for what ever they have.
The protozoa looked a lot like this
Or like this
The worms my cobalts looked just like this
The worms in my new regina that I tested a few days ago looked like this
Oh, I don't remember which frogs but there were also some really small squigily worms the size of bacteria.
If anyone has any information one what I saw that'd be great. I really want to know if there are any beneficial or benine ciliate/flagulate protozoa that are common in a fecal. The one thing I know is they didn't die in the cobalts after a week of metro drips on the back.
We found a little bit of everything.
First; the wild caught cobalts I just recieved which look awesome and are a great weight were full of ciliated protozoa and what looked like hook worms. A bit of bacteria too.
Second; heatfreakks wc cobalts were pretty clean. A mild number of protozoa. No giardia in any. The were all little globual ciliates. Maybe coccidia. Maybe something else.
Third; a healthy looking azureus had a bunch of the same or simular protozoa.
Third; from a healthy looking pair of citronellas. i think there were a few protozoa but there seemed to be an abundant amount of rod bacteria, both singular and chained together.
I am now going to get with a good vet after doing fecals on the rest of my frogs and quarentine and treat all of them for what ever they have.
The protozoa looked a lot like this
Or like this
The worms my cobalts looked just like this
The worms in my new regina that I tested a few days ago looked like this
Oh, I don't remember which frogs but there were also some really small squigily worms the size of bacteria.
If anyone has any information one what I saw that'd be great. I really want to know if there are any beneficial or benine ciliate/flagulate protozoa that are common in a fecal. The one thing I know is they didn't die in the cobalts after a week of metro drips on the back.