Irianian Newts: Neurergus kaiserii

Dealers or wholesalers, it doesn't matter. Don't buy 'em. If in doubt do some research on here to find out if the person is a CB'er or not.
 
Thats what I was trying to figure out, John. You mentioned that there are sufficient populations being captive bred. Who are involved in captive breeding? I may be interested in getting involved down the road.
 
Debrorah, it's great that you are interested, and that you were willing to contact those sellers to complain about what they are selling. It probably won't change anything for the current import of kaiseri, but it may make some of them think twice about obtaining threatened species in the future.

At this point, nobody has bred kaiseri in the US, to my knowledge (though some have gotten eggs from newly-imported WC females). They have been truly captive-bred in Europe. My advice is to get as much experience as you can raising larvae and juveniles of ANY caudate species, and you'll be in good shape to help with whatever breeding opportunity comes along.
 
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    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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    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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