I feel like with panthers, the colors develop slowly, one basic group at a time. I feel like reds are more dominant though... sort of like brunettes in people. I'd be curious to see what others say to this question, if they all see that same pattern in their panthers...
I also think it's difficult, but not impossible, to avoid line breeding. I think that with import quotas it will be even more difficult. I don't think that it is as common in nature as people assume, though. With a limited gene pool here in America, yes, it's going to be difficult.
I don't...
Been there, done that. Actually "bugs" are, like svatch says, a really great source of protein and calcium! AND LOW FAT!!! People in many many countries eat them and they actually taste really good!!
Most Americans are scared to try things out of the ordinary at first, but when it's popular...
The retention of water is NOT necessarily a bad thing in gravid females. :)
Also, adding a dripper to help with edema is not necessarily going to work. Plain water will still be attracted extracellularly if the toxicity of the extracellular minerals is high (i.e too much calcium or potassium...
Any other symptoms? If they weren't moving, I'm not totally convinced that they are parasites, but anything is possible!
Runny, smelly poo can come from many different problems due to the digestive system. Many parasite treatments are NOT specific to any one bacteria or other microbes. Often...
Just curious: is this a fecal smear or blood sample?
I do not see any of the characteristic flagella of flagellates, not even inside if this were the cystic stage. I am very curious about it though, so do keep us posted.
I will keep looking also.