Eastern tiger salamander parasites

they shipped in with no water? What? How did they make it?
 
KrabzAga said:
they shipped in with no water? What? How did they make it?
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They actually were fine because they are already gulping air. Although they seem much happier being in water again. They are in the middle of changing and probably need another week or 2. I can't believe the guy told me to just put them in their water dish.
 
Cindyrads said:
They actually were fine because they are already gulping air. Although they seem much happier being in water again. They are in the middle of changing and probably need another week or 2. I can't believe the guy told me to just put them in their water dish.
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wow if they really sent them without water then that is straight up animal abuse. That is like sending dolphins in moist soil because they can breathe air. Im really surprised they made it alive like that
 
Cindyrads said:
They actually were fine because they are already gulping air. Although they seem much happier being in water again. They are in the middle of changing and probably need another week or 2. I can't believe the guy told me to just put them in their water dish.
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OMG, I can't believe that either
 
Quag said:
The exact same thing happened to me, I just got a tiger from them and it arrived the same way. It also has bumps too so I'm assuming they are parasites but I've never owned a salamander before so I'm not completely sure.
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How is your salamander doing? My two seem to be doing well. I haven't noticed anything going on with the bumps yet.
 
Cindyrads said:
How is your salamander doing? My two seem to be doing well. I haven't noticed anything going on with the bumps yet.
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I havent noticed much either he’s doing fine and eating a ton, im taking mine to the vet today so if they find something I’ll lyk
 
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Cindyrads said:
How is your salamander doing? My two seem to be doing well. I haven't noticed anything going on with the bumps yet.
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Alright so the vet said that they could very well be parasites but probably not a bacterial infection or fungal infection. They wanted to poke the spots to see but I ended up not doing the test (a little to much). So I say just leave them be and if they get any bigger then take them in
 
Quag said:
Alright so the vet said that they could very well be parasites but probably not a bacterial infection or fungal infection. They wanted to poke the spots to see but I ended up not doing the test (a little to much). So I say just leave them be and if they get any bigger then take them in
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Oh wow, thanks for the update.
 
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