troutnerd
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I don't post about all newt deaths..they happen. But this is weird.
My pair of granulosa have been great pets fro nearly 4 years..and have been quite happy since I first bought them and nursed them back to health.They, in many way, have the most personality of any newt I've owned.
Anyway, I came home the other day and was shocked to see my friendliest newt dead in the tank.It was near the bottom in some weeds. I was freaked but newts die for no apparent reason from time to time.Yet when I went to get the newt out, it was tangled in weeds.Once I was able to loosen it,I could see it had actually strangled/and or drown in a snarl of java moss.The stuff was knotted around its neck.The one strand was like a cord.It was virtually a noose. I'll ty and post a couple pics.
Has anyone ever seen this before?
I was tempted to get rid of all my java moss but the stuff is so good for egg laying etc.
A bummer way for a newt to die anyway.
Gord
My pair of granulosa have been great pets fro nearly 4 years..and have been quite happy since I first bought them and nursed them back to health.They, in many way, have the most personality of any newt I've owned.
Anyway, I came home the other day and was shocked to see my friendliest newt dead in the tank.It was near the bottom in some weeds. I was freaked but newts die for no apparent reason from time to time.Yet when I went to get the newt out, it was tangled in weeds.Once I was able to loosen it,I could see it had actually strangled/and or drown in a snarl of java moss.The stuff was knotted around its neck.The one strand was like a cord.It was virtually a noose. I'll ty and post a couple pics.
Has anyone ever seen this before?
I was tempted to get rid of all my java moss but the stuff is so good for egg laying etc.
A bummer way for a newt to die anyway.
Gord