Thank you Ame. How horrible for you Pam finding your toads like that. I hope the virus David Attenborough was talking about is not the one hitting our frogs.
i've just watched the david attenburgh documentary about frogs & he said that they can catch a highly infectious bacterial infection that causes their skin to thicken and they cannot release salts through their skin until finally their heart stops, i think it was called Kitrid (sic)
I have never heard of this infection sanjy - hoping that it doesn't bring the frog population down - we need all the wildlife we can get - with the loss of so many ponds & marshes etc. aquatic animals & insects are having a bad enough time without extra problems. Poor little creatures what an awful end for them.
I have just removed another dead frog. I have one remaining live but I could see he was not a well frog. His skin was patchy and a pale on parts of his body and he occasionally wreched forward like a human does when trying to swallow something unpleasant. I think I will find him dead soon. I thought for a short while the spawn appeared to doing ok but at appears to have disintegrated, no hatched taddies. I had a large tadpole from last year and that has gone also. I don't know how to cope with this, my pond has also got newts and lots of water snails. the last thing I want to do is drain it and start again. This all depends on whether the disease is airbourn or not. All I can hope is that with no frogs the disease will run its course and go. I will search for this disease Sanji, thank you, and see if the symptoms fit.
After my bulletin yesterday I am very pleased to say whilst doing a bit of weeding near my pond I managed to spot 5 frogs hiding in the pond plants and all appeared to be healthy. Heres keeping my fingers crossed.
I had a look at images of the chytrid disease Sanje and they do not look anything like my dead ones. Apparently it is a problem mainly around rainforest areas and other hot countries where some have even become extinct. Lets hope it never arrives here!
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Thank you Ame. How horrible for you Pam finding your toads like that. I hope the virus David Attenborough was talking about is not the one hitting our frogs.
i've just watched the david attenburgh documentary about frogs & he said that they can catch a highly infectious bacterial infection that causes their skin to thicken and they cannot release salts through their skin until finally their heart stops, i think it was called Kitrid (sic)
I have never heard of this infection sanjy - hoping that it doesn't bring the frog population down - we need all the wildlife we can get - with the loss of so many ponds & marshes etc. aquatic animals & insects are having a bad enough time without extra problems. Poor little creatures what an awful end for them.
aww i know, it's sad isn't it. I just googled it and it's called chytrid frog fungus
I have just removed another dead frog. I have one remaining live but I could see he was not a well frog. His skin was patchy and a pale on parts of his body and he occasionally wreched forward like a human does when trying to swallow something unpleasant. I think I will find him dead soon. I thought for a short while the spawn appeared to doing ok but at appears to have disintegrated, no hatched taddies. I had a large tadpole from last year and that has gone also. I don't know how to cope with this, my pond has also got newts and lots of water snails. the last thing I want to do is drain it and start again. This all depends on whether the disease is airbourn or not. All I can hope is that with no frogs the disease will run its course and go. I will search for this disease Sanji, thank you, and see if the symptoms fit.
After my bulletin yesterday I am very pleased to say whilst doing a bit of weeding near my pond I managed to spot 5 frogs hiding in the pond plants and all appeared to be healthy. Heres keeping my fingers crossed.
I had a look at images of the chytrid disease Sanje and they do not look anything like my dead ones. Apparently it is a problem mainly around rainforest areas and other hot countries where some have even become extinct. Lets hope it never arrives here!