African Clawed Frog unable to use rear legs.

[FishAddict74]

The same thing is now happening to the female! WTF!:wall: Only this time I saw it happen.

I opened the tank to feed as usual. She knows that as soon as the lid opens food is coming. I dropped in a sinking tablet. She lunged for it and her entire body stiffened for about 5 seconds then she clentched tight into a ball and started convulsing. Now she is able to use her front legs... that's it.

I've tested the water and everything is fine.. same as usual. No ammo, No Nitrite, Nitrate under 20ppm. My PH is 8.0.

The male had what appeared to be a stroke.. now about 12 days later the female has the same thing. Although I'm sure they were related since I bought them both at the same time almost a year ago.

This sucks... :wall:

I wonder if it’s bad genetics. I had two albino sen bichirs for two years and then one of them had convulsions and died a few days later, then a week later, the same thing happened to the other. All my other fish were and still are fine and all parameters were spot on. I asked about this on another forum and it turned out that this was common with albino sens and the common belief after lots of responses was that they’re extremely inbred, especially albinos and that lead to poor genetics. I don’t know anything about clawed frogs, but if they’re commercially bred, that could be the issue. Did you get them both at the same time from the same seller?

 

[Wyomingite]

Old thread, but it's kind of been revived. It's cool you were able to rehab your acf, ALRtist, welcome to AC!

One thing people don't think about in situations like this is that animals are subject to some of the same physiological ailments as humans. I was reminded of this the day after Christmas when my Aussie-labrador mix had a stroke. We woke up to her blind, unable to move her rear legs and experiencing pain any time some one touched her below the chest. She was only 9 and was perfectly normal the day before. It was heartbreaking. Anyways, any animal that has a circulatory system can have a stroke, even fish and frogs, as well as heart attacks, seizures, blood clots, lung diseases in tetrapods, blood diseases such as anemia and leukemia, cancer, and so on and so on.

Then there are bad genetics, which are always going to be a possible issue in captive bred fish, especially in fish that are bred for certain traits, such as color, fin pattern, albinism, etc. Any fish could have a congenital disorder, but genetic problems are going to be higher in fish that have been bred for certain characteristics because obtaining those traits usually requires inbreeding to some degree, increasing the chance for harmful mutations.

As hobbyists we always want to know what killed or harmed our fish, but sometimes it just isn't possible to diagnose what happened and even if we could make a diagnosis we wouldn't be able to cure it. The only thing we can do is to make sure we provide the best conditions we can for our cold-blooded friends to reduce the chances of some of these things happening.

WYite