My Fire Bellied Toads each have a black swollen eye!

I recently purchased two fire bellied toads, the second day, I noticed one of their eyes was bulging and black. The day after, I realized that the other one of the other toads toad's eyes was was also bulging and black. Otherwise, they seem very healthy. One is extremely active and is always climbing things and the other spends most of his time in the pool. But it does concern me that their eyes are like this.........any knowledge of what this could be would be much appreciated....I have tried in vain to research this on the computer.

Okay so today, the one toad is completely normal again....his eye shrunk back down and is normal coloured.....goldish with a black pupil. The other frogs eye is still swollen, but it is not completely black anymore.....I can see the goldish through the black.....but it still swollen and black. Could this perhaps be an injury???

My toads continue to thrive despite the problem with their eye. I have had them for 3 weeks now and they seem healthy...excluding the eye problem. As I was in the same boat as you I suggest waiting it out....it worked out for my toads (so far). I did do some on-line research and realized that these little guys can live 20-30 years, so they are more resilient then I first assumed. But I do suggest (as an animal lover) that if your little toad seems to be suffering and you can't afford the vet, that you find a humane way to kill it.

Best Of Luck!!

I also suggest calling a vet that deals with exotics and asking them how long is too long for the toad to go without food. They will give you a little bit of free info.

What are herps? And it seemed appropriate to post in this section given that these are freshwater amphibians and seem to have an illness....through deductive reasoning I posted under the freshwater illness catagory, however, if you know of somewhere where we can get more appropritae info for our froggies mutual problem, then do tell, as I am an amatuer when it comes to amphibians.

Cheers