Just to clarify, (as my post got a lot of response and it seemed like the right thing to do for me to say something,) in the situation I had with Ford, I got the best advice I could from the only professional I could access at the time. She was a fellow frog owner at our local, largest aquarium store, where a friend of mine from high school works and I have gotten very good service. The advice I received from this forum was non-specific and unhelpful with the immediate situation. Although the information about Pimafix and text kits was nice, it didn't help at all. So, please don't criticize the help of pet store advice. I wasn't at Walmart or Petsmart. In the event of an emergency, I sought out the best help I could.

My concern about your forum was that it calls itself an ER and no one was here to help. You shouldn't call it an ER if folks aren't available more than once in a 24 hour period. I get faster responses on forums that don't involve living things, like technical support forums, etc. I check my email several times a day, and a lot of people do. So if you are an "expert" running an "ER" forum, you should be checking it probably at least twice a day or you shouldn't presume to call your forum an ER, which carries the connotation of immediate help, short notice. This is especially important when, for most people, there isn't a local fish doctor to take your helpless friends to. I was checking for updates on the forum once an hour. No professional or tangible help appeared.

I resent being told that what I did was incorrect, when NO OTHER OPTION was presented. Read through the posts. No one gave me any tangible advice whatsoever. I'm not a regular poster, and I have no interest in starting a "flame war." However, your responses to my post read more like folks defending their own community, or club, than making much sense in regards to what happened to me. I would have been willing to do whatever it took. In fact, I did. I went to my local aquarium store, then went and got the supplies she suggested, and did as she told me to do. I would have done the same with any advice from here, had it been given.

My only complaint was that your forum is incorrectly labelled an ER. It's not an ER. It's just a subtopic about illnesses. That's very misleading. Notice that Dr. Barb still has never surfaced, after how long? You can enjoy defending her, but the truth is that the forum did not function as advertised in this case. That's all I was pointing out. But I understand that online communities can be very close knit and you may feel you have to defend her. In the end, my frog is dead, and the only online resource I thought could help me just didn't help me. That's it. I'm not writing off the forum or anything. I've read a lot of interesting stuff here. I just had to learn the hard way that it doesn't work the way it says it does, and unfortunately I relied on it at exactly the wrong time.

So, please, don't take this with a grain of salt: You have still, even in the last three posts, only said what NOT to do--with the exception of pointing out Maroxy. Thanks for the tip, I'll use it again if I have a fungal infection on a frog. But still, no one has told me what to do with an injured frog with a fungal infection, or what to do to help it when it gets an air pocket trapped in its side due to the infection.

I'm not being bitter or upset. I am pointing out a straight forward fact that you can choose to ignore. This forum did not help me. It has still not helped me. If anything, it just made me feel like I was bashing my head against a brick wall. Perhaps one of you will read this and see that you should change the name of your ER forum or designate qualified advice members to help regularly throughout the day. Do one of the two so that no one has to go through this headache again!