I'm sorry if this question has been asked many times before, but I can't find exactly what I need.
I got a Fire Bellied Newt from Jack's Aquarium and Pets a few weeks ago. She had two toes from each front toe missing, and now some form of limb rot is ravaging her poor body. She also has an open wound near one of her legs that are being eaten away. In the water, it looks fuzzy and almost crystalline, but out of the water, it looks like tissue. I've tried using an ich treatment with malachite green, and when I was gone, my dad used a stress coat: slime treatment that he used for the fish, and that and the water treatment seemed to make the fuzzyness go away, but it didn't seem that she was healing and repairing her limbs. When I used the malachite green, I used very little and diluted it, and did a spot treatment on her limbs and side. She is also lethargic and not eating, I tried giving her different foods. I know she will eat shrimp because she ate it before she got really sick. When she is touched, however, she will move, so she still has some life in her.
So, I have two questions. Does she have limb rot? And are we doing the right thing or do we need to do something else for her? I'm so scared she's dying painfully and I want to help her.
I got a Fire Bellied Newt from Jack's Aquarium and Pets a few weeks ago. She had two toes from each front toe missing, and now some form of limb rot is ravaging her poor body. She also has an open wound near one of her legs that are being eaten away. In the water, it looks fuzzy and almost crystalline, but out of the water, it looks like tissue. I've tried using an ich treatment with malachite green, and when I was gone, my dad used a stress coat: slime treatment that he used for the fish, and that and the water treatment seemed to make the fuzzyness go away, but it didn't seem that she was healing and repairing her limbs. When I used the malachite green, I used very little and diluted it, and did a spot treatment on her limbs and side. She is also lethargic and not eating, I tried giving her different foods. I know she will eat shrimp because she ate it before she got really sick. When she is touched, however, she will move, so she still has some life in her.
So, I have two questions. Does she have limb rot? And are we doing the right thing or do we need to do something else for her? I'm so scared she's dying painfully and I want to help her.