You said..."My theory is that they are injuring themselves. How? well that im not positive of but I think it could be due to shooting at the same prey and connecting tongues as I have seen them do that. One will retract and will pull the others tongue with the retracted tongue"....this is one reason not to keep them together unless the cage is quite big. I prefer longer shorter cages for babies so that it gives them more horizontal space to spread out. It seems to cause less problems that way.

You said..."I dont think it is a nutritional thing as I have some panther chams going on 5 years old(not breeders) and a mellers whos about 2 years"...different species seem to differ slightly in how much of an imbalance they can tolerate before there is a "reaction". Its possible that we are just keeping them on the "edge" of their nutrient requirements so some fall over the edge so to speak.

If its an injury at least some of them should get over the injury and be able to shoot the tongue again I think??

Hope you get it figured out!

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