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dragonwalker
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Hi,
I usually post in the Tylototriton forum but think that this may be less species specific.
Last year, I was fortunate enough to have breeding T. shanjing (professional institution not my home unfortunately). I ended up with over forty morphs and after some going to other zoos and some deaths, i now have thirty in my care.
Two started to get strange contortions in the body and have developed lumps along the spine. They seem to act twitchy as well when touched. As I feed all the same and they have been like this for a while (also one had some discolouration, the other didn't) I wasn't sure what it could be, but now there are a few others in other tanks also developing some of these lumps along the spine.
They are kept in clean tubs with one end with moist paper towels and moss.
I offer them food daily, fruit fly larvae, blackworms, pinheads and fruit flies. Most of them are still quite small and are nowhere near eating larger foods.
Any ideas on if this could be a calcium problem or something else? Some of the ones that developed the lumps did so during my weeks vacation and the paper towels had not been changed; they were dirty and did not hold moisture as well. They had slough on them that had dried that I had to take off.
Also, they hang out in the moss which is the damp end and they slough often. Is it perhaps too damp for them, but when I let it dry more then they get slough stuck on them.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Rachel
I usually post in the Tylototriton forum but think that this may be less species specific.
Last year, I was fortunate enough to have breeding T. shanjing (professional institution not my home unfortunately). I ended up with over forty morphs and after some going to other zoos and some deaths, i now have thirty in my care.
Two started to get strange contortions in the body and have developed lumps along the spine. They seem to act twitchy as well when touched. As I feed all the same and they have been like this for a while (also one had some discolouration, the other didn't) I wasn't sure what it could be, but now there are a few others in other tanks also developing some of these lumps along the spine.
They are kept in clean tubs with one end with moist paper towels and moss.
I offer them food daily, fruit fly larvae, blackworms, pinheads and fruit flies. Most of them are still quite small and are nowhere near eating larger foods.
Any ideas on if this could be a calcium problem or something else? Some of the ones that developed the lumps did so during my weeks vacation and the paper towels had not been changed; they were dirty and did not hold moisture as well. They had slough on them that had dried that I had to take off.
Also, they hang out in the moss which is the damp end and they slough often. Is it perhaps too damp for them, but when I let it dry more then they get slough stuck on them.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Rachel