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C. pyrrhogaster Cloudy eyes/blindness

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Blind C. Pyrrhogaster?

I dont have any pictures...but its eyes are sort of milky so im guessing its blind? anything i should do to take care of a blind newt out of the ordinary? its also my first newt too, what luck. Oh yea to anyone who's been paying attention to me I finally got a newt! woo yay me, hope it makes it because after i purchased it one of the assistants took one of its tank mates out because it was apparently dead =( sharing a tank with firebelly toads pfft i feel bad for contributing but it was the last one left. Planning on gettin more this weekend if anyone is interested but yeah it may be blind, and I wouldnt need to concern myself about him breathign only underwater because hes an adult right?
 
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i recently posted asking about blind treatment (how to care differently) for my C pyrr. I may be wrong about him being blind and he/ she may just have cloudy eyes due to either infection, shedding problems, diet, injury, or toxins. It is most likely to be a diet infection or a toxin issue with toxins being least likely. My Rex is brand new..got him tonight and if its infection id like to know what kind of infection could cause his eyes to cloud, unless any infection can trigger this, or if its a specialty infection how could i go about treating this? ive read the caresheets and have seen nothing specific towards clouding leading me to believe its generally caused by infection but please, input is always accepted =P
 
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Hi, I put your two threads together because they are basically the same issue.

Since the newt just arrived from a pet shop, it could be anything. It could have been exposed to a toxin during the import/wholesale/retail process, or it could have been exposed to something infectious that could do this. Diet seems less likely, since the diet they get in the wild is usually good.

How cloudy are the eyes? It may go away when the newt sheds its skin. I don't know of anything you could do to treat it, particularly since there's no way to know the cause.
 
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Hah i noticed, thanks and they are both resolved if i dont mind saying so myself. I feel bad giving the store money to buy newts to mix in with the firebelly toads..but im practiclly buying their next shipment. i can probably say this post is closed and sorry i made two seperate posts.
 
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