Nice photos. The water looks a bit yellow, and I noticed that you have a piece of wood in the tank. If you picked this piece up out of your back yard, remember that wood (being organic, but dead) can rot or disintegrate in the water. In addition, wood often releases organic acids called tannins which taint the water yellow and slowly decrease the pH. Soaking the wood (outside the tank) for awhile helps alleviate those two problems.
Have you also gotten rid of those white worms that you posted about?
Hope you post more Taricha photos in the future! They are always a welcome sight.
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.
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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