dancing newts! :D?

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I had owned two Spanish ribbed newts who have unfortunately have passed since, so i got three crested german danube newts, changed up the tank and cleaned it out but only one thing stayed, which was a piece of bamboo. So today i caught my newts dancing around the bamboo. (if this bad please tell me.)
 
Apparently its them just dancing to attract a mate, courtship displays. Thats all I found on this.
 
How is it going now? What pets do you have?
It's going just barley but at least it still is... I lost one of my northern two lined salamanders I tried putting in a small Mason jar to put live blackworms in and they stay alive and contained longer than they would in a bottle cap but the other morning I found the largest of the 2 salamanders I had floating and dead in the jar and it looked like more water from the drip wall enclosure filled up the jar and I have assumptions that maybe it was gravid and carrying eggs and that made it difficult to get out of jar. They both have gone in and out of the jar a number of times until the last one. Very sad and unfortunate and I couldn't find it's partner for the longest time until I saw him swimming in the water section so I think they were mature enough for the partial water setup but I guess it's all part of the hobby and living and learning. Hopefully I can find him another partner in the future but rn still sad and mad at myself for making such a costly mistake...apologies for such a dark sad story but feels better to tell someone...how are you and your animals?
 
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  • Katia Del Rio-Tsonis:
    Dear All, I would appreciate some help identifying P. waltl disease and treatment. We received newts from Europe early November and a few maybe 3/70 had what it looked like lesions under the legs- at that time we thought maybe it was the stress of travel- now we think they probably had "red leg syndrome" (see picture). However a few weeks later other newts started to develop skin lesions (picture enclosed). The sender recommended to use sulfamerazine and we have treated them 2x and we are not sure they are all recovering. Does anyone have any experience with P. waltl diseases and could give some input on this? Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
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  • Katia Del Rio-Tsonis:
    sorry I am having a hard time trying to upload the pictures- I have them saved on my hard drive... any suggestions-the prompts here are not allowing for downloads that way as far as I can tell. Thanks
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    Katia Del Rio-Tsonis: sorry I am having a hard time trying to upload the pictures- I have them saved on my hard... +1
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