Hey all,
I am quite upset. I have now lost 6 of my 7 pygmies over the past 6 months. I know 2 were old age, 1 was a freak accident (the crickets attacking her), and 1 was eggbound...ok. But both my lost males were totally healthy and seemed to die, literally, overnight....
I lost both my males to IDENTICAL SYMPTOMS. I could tell that my latter male was not doing great the past few days (he had REALLY odd coloration up for the past 3 or so days)....I woke up this morning to find him dead....although he was still standing up with his head held tall like always...I was quite surprised that he was still holding onto the side wall (he was standing upright vertically, dead!)
What is really bothering me.....I lost my favorite male in a separate enclosure to EXACTLY the same thing. He was healthy one night, the next day he was dead and had "chunks" missing from his body (I'm not sure if this means a cricket in the tank ate at him overnight, but the chunk seems somewhat large)
If you see the pics, you can see that he is missing a chunk out from under his chin and (hard to see) a chunk out from under his armpit. What REALLY boggles my mind is that he was definitely alive last night when I went to sleep, and he was very dead this morning....but look at his eyes!!
Why would one eye completely dry up/disappear, while the other eye is still present and slightly open? ANY info on cause of death would be highly appreciated...seeing as my pygs are kept in 2 SEPARATE enclosures so its not like one would have reasonably infected the other even if a disease was involved (which I doubt b/c the females in the respective tanks did not die to this)... and what the heck happened to his lip?
Very sad to be down to 1 young lady only....
EDIT: In particular compare his left and right eye......also, are his colors not generally odd for a pygmy? He was extremely pink, esp in the arm areas his whole life
I am quite upset. I have now lost 6 of my 7 pygmies over the past 6 months. I know 2 were old age, 1 was a freak accident (the crickets attacking her), and 1 was eggbound...ok. But both my lost males were totally healthy and seemed to die, literally, overnight....
I lost both my males to IDENTICAL SYMPTOMS. I could tell that my latter male was not doing great the past few days (he had REALLY odd coloration up for the past 3 or so days)....I woke up this morning to find him dead....although he was still standing up with his head held tall like always...I was quite surprised that he was still holding onto the side wall (he was standing upright vertically, dead!)
What is really bothering me.....I lost my favorite male in a separate enclosure to EXACTLY the same thing. He was healthy one night, the next day he was dead and had "chunks" missing from his body (I'm not sure if this means a cricket in the tank ate at him overnight, but the chunk seems somewhat large)
If you see the pics, you can see that he is missing a chunk out from under his chin and (hard to see) a chunk out from under his armpit. What REALLY boggles my mind is that he was definitely alive last night when I went to sleep, and he was very dead this morning....but look at his eyes!!
Why would one eye completely dry up/disappear, while the other eye is still present and slightly open? ANY info on cause of death would be highly appreciated...seeing as my pygs are kept in 2 SEPARATE enclosures so its not like one would have reasonably infected the other even if a disease was involved (which I doubt b/c the females in the respective tanks did not die to this)... and what the heck happened to his lip?
Very sad to be down to 1 young lady only....
EDIT: In particular compare his left and right eye......also, are his colors not generally odd for a pygmy? He was extremely pink, esp in the arm areas his whole life
