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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tomoran" data-source="post: 30055" data-attributes="member: 1152">Your temps sound great; I was just curious if he could have been dehydrated by some type of heat source. MatthewM1 brings up an excellent point. Unfortunately, many of the Ts sold through pet stores are wild caught, and you never know what you're getting. They can be old, sick, with parasites, or mature males. There is a good possibility that your husbandry was fine and the little guy wasn't going to make it either way. If that's the case, then at least you gave it a good home in the end. I wouldn't beat yourself up. As HungryGhost said, don't let this drive you from the hobby. He lists some wonderful species for the first time T keeper, and all of these can be procured from reliable breeders and vendors via the mail. If you need some place to check out, I'd be happy to share the ones I have experience with. I'm sure others will share as well.</blockquote>