I need help for my longirostris

[chris2009]

Hallo together,

i think my salamandra longirostris are ill.
they are not eating and they breath like they have a cold.
if they exhale the breath is jerky and not calm.
the skin is a litle bit mat, otherwise the common condition
is still ok...
if they have endoparasites the actual status was more bad or not?
have someone here a analogical sick observed?
tnx u very much and sry for my bad english!

greetings chris

 

[Azhael]

The difficult breathing would possibly point to some kind of infection (i think i recall reading about respiratory infections caused by inadequate humidity). Take them to an specialized vet if possible.

 

[chris2009]

Hallo together,

1 salamander is dead!
Its maybe a chytridinfektion!
I send the body to a institute in berlin, its called exomed.
I worked with a vet together but hes not spezialised with amphibians.
We medicate them with itrafungol, as a bath 1 a day.
Have someone here experience with this disease?

greetings christian

 

[shmifty5]

i hope it isn't Bd as Bd is very infectious and potentially deadly for most amphibian species, if the deceased animal does show positive results for Bd i would advise you to keep your survivor(s) in isolation and make him/them as comfy as can be until they succumb.

other wise i would get those animals to a vet as soon as possible, a death is never a good sign when the group is infected.

 

[chris2009]

Hi all,

my Salamandra have no Bd, they have massive infection with Dematiaceae.
Its a fungus too, but i hope its not so phatogenic and deadly like Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
Have someone here experience with this spezies or tips for me?
I work with a vet together and we use itrafungol at the moment, but only for 1 group of my salamandras.
I am interested how i can make the enviroment bad for the fungus, without damage for my salamandras.

Greetings christian

 

[shmifty5]

fungus like the same kind of environment as most salamanders, moist, dark, etc, try to keep their tanks as cold as you can manage, i know that some fungus can't live in a cold environment and for most other it will definately slow them down, keep the moisture at a good gradient, not too dry, definately not too wet (like feet...kind of), other than that im not really of any use to your main question, sorry!

 

[chris2009]

Hi shmifty5,

tnx u for the tips.
I have them now in a fridge.
There are 8-10 c.I hope the fungus grow more slow then outside.
Whats with the ph-vatue, d like fungus more acid or more basic ph-value?
I think they like more acid.

Greetings christian

 

[shmifty5]

I'm really not too sure about pH ranges, i would assume that a 7.0 to 8.0 range would be prefered by fungus', they really inhabit almost any pH range one can naturally find (the extremes like 1-3 and 10-14 would most likely kill them and any other creature), in a slighly related topic, my uncle has been growing his own mushrooms at home and they grow in anything from fresh peat mulch to "super basic" dirty cardboard.