Well the new guys didn't spawn or re-enter into amplexus so I turned the rain off after four days as the humidity won't be helping their rubs to heal. I've left them in the chamber at low humidity to keep them separate from the others in the interests of quarantine and they seem healthy and happy.
Sadly the group of four I bought at Hamm are all dead, they obviously had something very nasty and all went down hill very quickly. Early symptoms looked like this:
They got a lot worse looking at the end turning all kinds of colours with very red bellies. I'm still waiting for the results of the chytrid and ranavirus swabs so I may at least find out what they died of eventually. I treated them for chytrid when I first saw symptoms (the skin on their backs also went very hard and shell like) but the treatment had no effect.
So of the 12 I bought, I now have 6 left. The 4 in the rain chamber, the remaining individual from the first group of 3, and a LTC that I managed to find in shop a couple of hours away who had been in their possession for 2 months. Fingers crossed I can at least get these guys to survive.





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