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liz
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This Taricha granulosa was born in captivity about 5 years ago. Maybe 2 or 3 years ago (I forget now, its been so long) he developed a curve in his back. At first I thought it was maybe broken, but he has always had full use of his legs and tail so I decided that was not the case. He has progressively gotten worse, his tail started curving around a year ago. Currently, he has recently started having trouble swimming, and now has trouble eating unless he is in a very shallow (less than half an inch) amount of water.
Has anyone ever come across anything like this before? Any ideas on what the problem might be? The only thing I've come up with is something like scoliosis, but I've not heard of that in amphibians before.
Has anyone ever come across anything like this before? Any ideas on what the problem might be? The only thing I've come up with is something like scoliosis, but I've not heard of that in amphibians before.