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Hello again all, last you heard I culled the eggs from Milo and Ernie's grand affair, but little did we know that one wasn't found until a week later and now we have a baby, who is doing very well and is a gorgeous little tyke. My problem is with Milo, the mother. It's been almost 4 weeks and in the past couple days I've noticed an odd growth coming out of her privates. It's like a mucus ball that can be pulled slightly away from her body with light sucking from a turkey baster, but I don't want to hurt her by pulling too hard to try and sever it. When I let go the ball bounces back into place. Do you think that she got a hernia from giving birth (and if so, why didn't appear so prominently right after birthing)? Or is this the last of some bad eggs that got lost in her system? I've watched the tank religiously and haven't seen any spermatophores, and it's in a ball, not cone shape, so I don't think it's that... anyway here are some pictures, excuse my long windedness.







And here is one of the baby, to end on a happier note:

wow ive never seen that before, it does kinda look like the last of the egg slime, mucus stuff... (whatever you want to call it) but you would have thought it would have gone by now. sorry i cant help you with that. maybe someone else might have seen it before. it doesnt look too painful though
thats such a cute looking baby though! i remember when mine were that tiny, i kinda wish they were still that tiny, they eat soo much now!
anyone want one?!

(Message edited by shane_88 on April 30, 2006)

Thank you for the response Shane! Since Sunday she expelled a huge mucus ball full of old, bad eggs and dragged it around the tank on a thin mucus line. I wish I had taken that opportunity to sever the connection to her body, but didn't and she wound up sucking it all back up into her body (through her back-end, including the sand, etc, that got stuck to it as she walked around). So now her backsides are so completely swollen, her privates completely opened (to at least a centimeter), and has a huge mucus/egg ball keeping her in pain (sometimes she looks like she is screaming in the tank). It is so horrible and I don't know what to do for her. I hate seeing her like this, but I don't want to hurt her further by trying to suck them out for her. My theory is that, because this was her first birth and she laid so many eggs, she didn't have enough strength to lay them all and so these stayed inside her until now (3 1/2 weeks later) when she had regained her health, but she can't expel them for whatever reason.

omg those are horror photos! I gasped so loud.....i feel so sorry for her too! Poor thing. If it were me i would try using the turkey blaster...why would she suck it back in!! i hope she'll be ok!
the baby is cute. is ti a wild type? What were the parents

ouch, that does look painful! im not sure what you could do for her other than let her be, trying to remove it may be very stressful and could have risks.

alot of fish re-absorb their eggs if they dont lay them all, perhaps axies do this too?

hopefully someone can come along and offer more adivce

Cant you take her to a vet?

i think you should ask one of the Caudata site experts about this. It looks very painful! i also think most vets probably wouldnt know what to do either (unless theyre specialists!!)

Yeh i meant a specialist

Take her to an exotics vet they can help.