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I have had my chinese firebelly newt for approx. 3 weeks. (he is still relatively small/young)

at first i noticed that he was shedding, yet it didnt come all off (the skin)
i then called the fish store, and they said that they are not supposed to shed, and that he may be too wet (not out of the water enough)
so i proceeded to get a higer rock for him, which worked well
he then seemed to have been attacked my my frog (who does have a little bit of a history of harming things smaller than him - but since my newt was larger i thought they would be fine)
i took the newt out and moved him to another tank
his back limb seemed to have been attacked, and showed the bone
i then noticed a couple days later that his front leg also looked like it was attacked
the front leg healed, and the back leg got worse - the bone kept coming farther and farther out, until now, where he was no use of his leg past his knee
his front leg has also gotten worse even after seemeing to get better
you can now see all the muscle in his front leg, and he has no use of it
i also noticed that he is now looking fuzzy

he has not eaten for the past 2 weeks, and is very lathargic (i can see his ribs and spine)

what is rong with my guy?

sounds to me like he got an infection. I'm not sure about the cure but if you go to caudata.org someone there will help you are fairly quickly. The people on that site are VERY knowledgable when it comes to newts. Good luck!

Ok firstly your gonna have to get him eating otherwise he won t get any better try mashing up some bloodworm and force feeding via a 1ml syringe do that as often as he used to eat then keep an eye on him for a few days if still no sign of healing you could try some sanipur from tetra its a hebal treatment for scratches and bites your local reptile shop should have some or can get some, im not sure if this would work with newts but form my injured frog i got told to use vetadine http://www.eurorep.net/medivet/vetadine.htm

let me know how it goes, good luck