HELP! is my newt shedding or fungi??

[meowmags]

Please help!

He's around 2 months old and his whole abdomen is stiff but the top part is moving

Is he shedding?? he's got clean water, almond leaves in (just changed them out) cool water,

Sorry had to compress the video

can I do salt baths? I've got rock salt available

 

[stanleyc]

Please help!

He's around 2 months old and his whole abdomen is stiff but the top part is moving

Is he shedding?? he's got clean water, almond leaves in (just changed them out) cool water,

Sorry had to compress the video

can I do salt baths? I've got rock salt available
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Sorry it doesn’t look like shedding to me. I don’t have experience with caring for sick newts this young still in the larval stage, so I can’t help you a whole lot with it, hopefully someone else can. But what are your parameters? Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, ph, temp. They’re so fragile at this stage, even if your parameters were off and that’s what caused it, I’m not confident correcting them now would do a whole lot of good. But maybe it can prevent your other newt from getting sick as well.

Again hopefully someone else knows more about how to deal with this.

 

[meowmags]

Sorry it doesn’t look like shedding to me. I don’t have experience with caring for sick newts this young still in the larval stage, so I can’t help you a whole lot with it, hopefully someone else can. But what are your parameters? Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, ph, temp. They’re so fragile at this stage, even if your parameters were off and that’s what caused it, I’m not confident correcting them now would do a whole lot of good. But maybe it can prevent your other newt from getting sick as well.

Again hopefully someone else knows more about how to deal with this.

Thank you, he sadly passed away this morning

Luckily, my larvae all have separate tubs in case something like this happens (I only have 1 fire belly 3 month old larva, 2x neurergus crocatus larva left and two fresh eggs of chinese fire belly)

 

[stanleyc]

Sorry for your loss. If you know your parameters were all good I would say don’t think too much of it. I don’t think it’s very likely you can get a 100% survival rate of larvae.

 

[MidMichiganNewts]

Sorry this happend ,be sure you aren’t over feeding ,when doing the water changes I use a stiff piece of aquarium tubing as a mini siphon to get all detritus and uneaten food,how often are u changing out water