Urgent help, cricket attack!

[knighty]

[QUOTE=rob-stl-07;5101540
also to who ever said that the browns are worse than blacks - blacks in my own opinion are much worse than browns for attacks, which is why for my phibs i always buy browns [/QUOTE]

I agree browns are faster and jump more but blacks are allot more vicious and have a higher tendancy to bite.

Originally Posted by Morgan Freeman

Really? I'm a bit tentative to try that, I have a plant at home..

Thats a serious bite, and could be a mix of nose rub to mate. I would be inclined to reduce the humidity and keep it dry as mould, fungus and bacteria thrive in damp conditions.
I would not put any thing other than specialized amphibian safe treatments on to frogs. Aloe vera is not 100% natural and has been processed through a laboratory to make it more cost effective.

[ilovetoads2]

I think the aloe vera they were referring to comes straight from a plant you have in your house. You just have to snap a bit of the fleshy leave and squeeze it. Pure aloe comes out. I use it for my kids cuts and scrapes, nappy rash, sunburns, all sorts. It is good.

[Morgan Freeman]

Originally Posted by knighty

Thats a serious bite, and could be a mix of nose rub to mate. I would be inclined to reduce the humidity and keep it dry as mould, fungus and bacteria thrive in damp conditions.
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Yeah good idea.

I'm not sure about the nose rub, it was fine when I checked him a few hours before and the other guy is completely healthy.

[niki87]

hi yeah crickets are horrible. the key is to have some fruit or something for the crickets to eat in the tank. also at night take the crickets out. if the sore spot on you frog is still looking sore and/or bothering him and/or your worried it might be best to seek a vet out. I dont mean to scare you but i was recently the new owner of a tiny baby chameleon. one morning i check on him only to find he was covered in huge indentated wounds mainly along his back. watching i notice one of the crickets actually feeding from a wound. It was clear it was a cricket attack. I rushed my cham to the reptile vet but he was barely alive and died that night.

Obv this is worse that yours so dont be worried im just saying they do attack..and apparently it is to do with hunger. if its any help the black crickets are the worst. Maybe...if possible bathe the wound in an salt/water combo...this is the advice the vet gave me for my mouse's recent injury...to prevent infection.

Hope this helps. Good luck!!

[Morgan Freeman]

Cheers!

Yeah black crickets are def off the menu and fruit is always left in. Little buggers.

[rob-stl-07]

Originally Posted by AndyJY

rob-stl-07;510540 av got a name n it easier to remember than urs nob a got it wrong a read more about the brown silent ones eatin each other and also about an escape of browns which seeminly destroyed a fridge, on the other hand blacks are slower easier to catch make a noise so are easier to locate, blacks are harder to digest i also read blacks are more selective of food.....they both have benefits and flaws so realy it up to the owner which suits them hoppers would be the ideal option but to expensive for some folk i mix blacks and hoppers if my frog gets bitten ive tried my hardest to prevent it as ive sayed before the frog would be in more danger in the wild.

excuse me? what I said was not offensive at all. You are wrong; blacks ARE more dangerous then browns, one reason being that they also have a harder exoskeleton. and calling me nob? very funny, you mixed up the first letter of my name and re-arranged it to make a swear - are you 10?!

im sorry for not addressing you as your REAL NAME, Andyjy, but i was skimming the thread and when i came to write my post i wasnt expecting you to actually take offense to that - it was only offensive if you are that ignorant to think it is offensive.

[AndyJY]

am no ignorant but usualy even if skimmin a post if am gona refer to someone elses i generaly go back reread it and check there name refering to someone as whoever i do find quite offensive manners are easy, as you will see i have now agreed about the crickets i was just unlucky what i read when doin some research also i never stated browns were worse than blacks i said from what ive read browns will eat anything and blacks more selective i never changed the first letter of yer name a called ye a knob and dropped a letter just coincidence it worked the otherway,

anyway back to the subject try makin sure feeders are well gutloaded before they go in the viv as u remove them from viv anyway chances are they will only be in 48 hours max if ye miss them first night any u take out make sure they feed and dont put them back in the night after yev removed em.

[Saedcantas]

Can we have new pictures of this???

If it is a cricket bite and it hasn't gotten worse I'd always suggest leaving it alone as far as possible, in my experience things like Flamizine or F10 barrier cream just make the situation worse by keeping the area moist and open. Anything that you might apply to it potentially abraids repairing tissues and does more damage than good.

I'd keep his conditions the same as normal, optimal, struggling to deal with a dry enclosure is an extra stress that he doesn't need. So long as your enclosure is clean he ought to be able to heal by himself.

[Morgan Freeman]

Originally Posted by Saedcantas

Can we have new pictures of this???

If it is a cricket bite and it hasn't gotten worse I'd always suggest leaving it alone as far as possible, in my experience things like Flamizine or F10 barrier cream just make the situation worse by keeping the area moist and open. Anything that you might apply to it potentially abraids repairing tissues and does more damage than good.

I'd keep his conditions the same as normal, optimal, struggling to deal with a dry enclosure is an extra stress that he doesn't need. So long as your enclosure is clean he ought to be able to heal by himself.

I'll get some new pics when I'm home from work, though it looks exactly like it did in the first pic.

I've actually left everything the same in the viv only looking in while he's asleep to check on the wound. It looks like quite a large portion of skin that's missing but it's very clean, no blood, swelling or signs of infection and this is a few days on.

Obviously these guys are new so the last thing I want to do is stress them out, I'd have taken him to the vet if necessary but I can't see the stress being very helpful, I'd imagine it would just excarcebate things.

Thanks for the advice.

[Saedcantas]

To be fair, the original pic was as much use as a chocolate fireguard

I'm definitely interested in seeing some pictures that are in focus Otherwise there is no way anyone can tell you anything about how to help it. What I did think after seeing the first pic is that it looks nothing like a cricket bite.

Lotte***