One Of My Adf Has Died :(

[ellena]

posted in emergencies [URL="http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=297111&hl="]http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=297111&hl=[/URL] but it's too late this morning
I can't see any sign of the skin hanging off the dead one and can't get a good look at the other one.
Any idea what it may have been?

 

[ev_michael]

Aw the frog died?! Sorry that stinks...but is strange! I think you can be sure it wasnt from the shedding, but maybe disease or something...all i can think of. Are your other ADFs acting ok? (i think i remember reading you had more)

 

[ellena]

Thanks for the reply I have just the one more, and it seems fine, eating and swimming around OK. Even more active than usual I think actually. No sign of anything on the dead frog, in fact, I thought his leg moved so I put him back in water in case he was still alive he looks so perfect. No sign of skin hanging off either of them, so they must have eaten it I suppose.
I know the remaining one shouldn't be kept alone-I intend buying more once I get back from holiday.

 

[saltynay]

Removal of the slime coating can result in bacterial infection which can lead to excess shedding as one of the symptoms before death occurs. They do eat the skin I noticed one of mine was shedding on its leg and as i was watching another sneaked up behind and managed to bite a large amount of the shedding skin but it hadn't fully detachted so the two frogs started going crazy wrenchng at each other so I had to step in and seperate them.