Welcome to the African dwarf frog world. Free tips about keeping African Dwarf Frogs. Lots of info and more on African Dwarf Frogs, your home and family and pet home.
The fungi Chytrid was apparently long thought to be predominantly free-living saprophytes, with a few species capable of infecting only invertebrates and vascular plants.
But, researchers then found a new species in 1999 which they called ‘Batrachocytrium dendrobatidis’ that infected amphibians and often caused the fatal disease ‘Chytridiomycoses’.
Bd is thought to have originated in South Africa from the earliest record that they have in a museum specimen from the 1930’s.
Scientists believe that this fungus came from African 'clawed' frogs which carry the fungus on their skin but do not suffer any ill affects from it.
These African 'clawed' frogs have spread all over the world due to the pet trade etc and carried the fungus with them.
If you have healthy African dwarf frogs at home and you want to purchase more then keep the new ones in quarantine for at least two months.
This is the amount of time it takes to see symptoms and usually the death of your new frogs.
I am sure your African dwarf frog is very precious to you and you would not want him/ her to die a horrible death like this one. See my next post for more information.
Information on aquariums click on: ‘exclusive news letter’.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment