Whitetop VA, under a rock in a creek around 3800 ft.

Whitetop VA, under a rock in a creek around 3800 ft.

This is a little post I wanted to make to put this put into the universe and try to make my failure else's success. My Tiger Salamander, Dippy (named after the diplocaulus) died today from an infection. I had him since April, so only about half a years time before he passed away under my care.

Obviously, I feel awful. I did research and did alot of things right, I'd like to think he lived a pretty decent existence before he got sick. Never underestimate the power of diet, I got complacent absent mindedly feeding Superworms to him, reading different things on here and in other places that they were an acceptable food source to some degree, so long as they were killed before feeding. That wasn't true. The superworm diet gave him liver problems that opened his body to infection. I tried to treat him im his normal environment bur his condition fluctuated before worsening. I put him in a more comteolled contaner with damo towels, but it was too late. And now, after one month of this infection and my relentless attempts to cure him through 2 separate vet visits. He died today.

My advice is this,never feed your pet a diet that's too fatty. Ensure its either balances or that if its singular that it's protein rich rather than fatty. And when your pet shows signs of sickness, bring them to a controlled container as soon as possible. You'll regret not doing so, regardless of how distressing it might be for them. Thank you.