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[David Tobler]

No you dont understand, dwarf clawed frogs unlike normal clawed frogs Xenopus, do get sick from Chytric on contact and thats the reason people some times buy them and after a wille, some previously healty looking ones die unexpectadly. They dont become assimptomatic carriers unless you consider the space that goes between the beggining of the infection to its end, but that isnt qualified as such because the simptons are there, even if hard to detect. In my experience the frogs go increasingly thin and the skin gets a milky hue, before they go down hill.
This means that if you have someone that has kept a group of dwarf clawed frogs for like 2 mouths, that means they are chytric free as the patogen if present would have already have caused infection and loss of animals.
This is the info Ive gattered so far and seen first hand evidence of, however considering the large range of this genus Im open that some populations/species of dawrf clawed frogs indeed are resistent to chytric and become assimptomatic carriers like Xenopus do.

I wasn't specifically discussing the dwarf frogs... Obviously you have much more experience with that individual species if you're able to visually determine whether or not it's infected.

 

[coura]

I wasn't specifically discussing the dwarf frogs... Obviously you have much more experience with that individual species if you're able to visually determine whether or not it's infected.

I dont claim to be able to recognize visually if they are infected, the simptons I descrive were only visible in the very late stages of the infection where not much could have been done and could have been easily mistaken by any other bacterial/fungal infection, they are not specific simptons. The only thing I claim is that in my experience dawrf clawed frogs dont become assimptomatic carriers of this particular patogen because they perish if they come into contact with it. However this doesant mean some animals, populations, species within this same genus are resilient to Chytric and do become assimptomatic carriers, it is perfectly plausible. On the other hand Xenopus can be free of Chytric as well!
Even to is completly non recomended I know people that keep Xenopus in large many species display and no losses to Chytric, even to they sher the same water basin. Thouse are however indeed hardy species of frog.