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Walkerbait0524

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Hello, my axi ,peaches is so sick , he looks like all his slime coat is gone and he is raw from head to tail. He was fine 4 days ago eating, swimming and interactive. He is 3 years old . He hasnt grown much since i got him, he is only about 7 inches long and has reached maturity. I had him in a 40 gallon for 2 years thinking he would grow into it but he just stopped growing so i transferred him to a 20 last year but was healthy and happy no issues till this. I have pics but do not know how to share them on this site. Any advise
 
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Hello, my axi ,peaches is so sick , he looks like all his slime coat is gone and he is raw from head to tail. He was fine 4 days ago eating, swimming and interactive. He is 3 years old . He hasnt grown much since i got him, he is only about 7 inches long and has reached maturity. I had him in a 40 gallon for 2 years thinking he would grow into it but he just stopped growing so i transferred him to a 20 last year but was healthy and happy no issues till this. I have pics but do not know how to share them on this site. Any advise
 
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Hey there! What are your water parameters? Temp? Any drastic changes to the axolotls care? What I do for pics is I use a free pic sharing site called imgur, (you have to sign up to the website, it’s all free however!) Just upload your pics to imgur and copy/paste the link in the reply box. Try to take the best pics you can with whatever you have! I hope peaches gets to feeling better!

Note: I have little experience with axolotls, however slime coat loss usually is due to high temps and/or bad water quality. Using a refrigerator would probably help, there is a great post on this forum about fridging axolotls. I’ll see if I can find a link to it!
 
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Thank you for your response to this thread I realized there is a manage attatchments tab and add from my documents then my gallery to add pictures. Peaches is doing well after fridging him 2 water changes and 2 -3 tea baths daily did the trick.
 

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