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s1ren
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I just read these pages: http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/limb_series.shtml and http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/limb_series2.shtml
It was great to see such good photos of the whole process. Really interesting stuff!
I had a C.O. lose a leg about five years ago, and the way it grew back was quite different than the photo series and accompanying notes describe:
One of three C.O. that I bought - in very bad condition from a LFS - lost a leg two weeks after I brought it home, due to a fungal infection (the other two died within three weeks of bringing them home). I quarantined it, gave it salt baths, and kept the water very clean, changing it every day.
Instead of this "blastema" forming and growing outward into a new leg, what happened was this: after about two weeks of just a stump, I began to see a little white filament growing out of the stump - after a couple of weeks, I thought it must be a bone, because that's exactly what it looked like: it was white, and appeared stiff, not bending or moving when he brushed it up against the glass or a rock. A few weeks later, the leg began to regenerate in a very similar way to the pictures shown on the websites above; but the flesh grew out over this "bone", which formed while the leg stump was still ragged.
The whole process took about three months total, from leg loss to complete regeneration.
Has anyone ever seen it happen this way? Or was I seeing something else, and misinterpreted it? I'm really curious now
I *wish* I had pictures to show, but I didn't even own a camera at the time, much less a camera that could have shown such tiny detail.
And I wish I could say that the little guy lived happily ever after: about six months after his new leg finished growing, he used it to escape, and died.
(Message edited by s1ren on February 22, 2006)
It was great to see such good photos of the whole process. Really interesting stuff!
I had a C.O. lose a leg about five years ago, and the way it grew back was quite different than the photo series and accompanying notes describe:
One of three C.O. that I bought - in very bad condition from a LFS - lost a leg two weeks after I brought it home, due to a fungal infection (the other two died within three weeks of bringing them home). I quarantined it, gave it salt baths, and kept the water very clean, changing it every day.
Instead of this "blastema" forming and growing outward into a new leg, what happened was this: after about two weeks of just a stump, I began to see a little white filament growing out of the stump - after a couple of weeks, I thought it must be a bone, because that's exactly what it looked like: it was white, and appeared stiff, not bending or moving when he brushed it up against the glass or a rock. A few weeks later, the leg began to regenerate in a very similar way to the pictures shown on the websites above; but the flesh grew out over this "bone", which formed while the leg stump was still ragged.
The whole process took about three months total, from leg loss to complete regeneration.
Has anyone ever seen it happen this way? Or was I seeing something else, and misinterpreted it? I'm really curious now
I *wish* I had pictures to show, but I didn't even own a camera at the time, much less a camera that could have shown such tiny detail.
And I wish I could say that the little guy lived happily ever after: about six months after his new leg finished growing, he used it to escape, and died.
(Message edited by s1ren on February 22, 2006)
