What’s wrong with my Banana Slug? !help!

[sherman]

Sorry about the picture - I didn’t want to type it all out again. Also I’m so completely new to this website, just signed up, so I don’t know all the rules or how your supposed to do things. I’m just desperately trying to find somewhere I can get help with this.

here’s pictures of Sherman before and after -


before^

After^
just looking at these pictures makes me sick. I don’t want Sherman to be suffering. If anyone knows what I can do or what I’m doing wrong please let me know, thank you!

 

[Finikan]

What is the temperature in the room where it is kept?

Search the board for banana slugs and you'll find some threads about them. I was just reading cool temps with high humidity are needed to avoid slowly withering away. Good luck to you and your slug.

 

[sherman]

What is the temperature in the room where it is kept?

Search the board for banana slugs and you'll find some threads about them. I was just reading cool temps with high humidity are needed to avoid slowly withering away. Good luck to you and your slug.

it’s unfortunately usually around 74 F, I know how important it is to keep it cool and I put ice packs around the tank and leave all my fans on. Where I live is ridiculously hot all the time but it’s also super humid (I think I may have said it wasn’t in my original post, that was a mistake). Are there other ways to keep tanks cool? I don’t have any power over the temperature in my house.

 

[NMTs]

Assuming it was already full grown when your class acquired it, there's no telling how old it is. A quick Google search says average lifespan for one of these is 1-7 years, so it is possible it's just reaching the end of it's life. I don't have any experience keeping these, so can't offer more help unfortunately.

 

[Ajohnson5263]

try to find a better way to insulate the enclosure and monitor temperatures. I believe others have said they are very temperature sensitive.
try to move the enclosure to a basement or insulated container to keep it cool. an old cooler or tub filled with insulating material might help. there are some people on caudata.org that keep heat-sensitive salamanders in complex setups successfully, even in warm climates.

 

[Finikan]

It is also very possible that it was already at the end of its life when you acquired it, and that you did a great job with it for the past year.