Illness/Sickness: Floating Newt/ weird head

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Sorry i might forgotten(am not experienced) to post here

I was asked to help to figure out what's wrong with this newt, by the description This newt is around 3 years old, he was gray with spots, now he is, odd orange/bronze color, inflated, his skin texture is very strange and wrinkly, and the skin on the head... is breaking? He always floats and keeps head out of the water. (even if there are rocks to climb out of water, he still just floats)
The tank is big 60-70l (designed for reptiles, so it's quite long).
The food is live mealworms.
Any ideas?
There is another newt in the tank too, healthy and fine, could it be contagious?
Any tips to help the poor ill newt?
 
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About a year ago, I had a newt that showed the same symptoms. I put it in a small container with damp paper towels, and put it in the refrigerator for about a week. There was no noticeable difference after a week, so I removed it, and put it in a cool spot in the basement. After a couple of weeks, it was back to normal, and I put it back in with my other newts. I don't know what the cause was, or what I may have done right or done wrong. But it worked. That is my experience, for whatever it may be worth.
 
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The newt was separated from the tank, put in cool area for past weeks, with bit of sea salt in the water, he refuses to eat and keeps floating, the view is getting uglier, he lost weight his skin is falling off, every time the water is getting changed it's full of skin particles.

His tank mates: Paddle tail newt
He himself...is Pleurodeles waltl

Any help? He seems like he is dying in horrible long way.
 
Aren’t Paddletails poisonous? Also rather aggressive? Could the poison have caused some sort of organ failure in the P.waltl?
 
The first two photos look like bloat, and I'm not too sure what would be causing that head-injury. Also worth noting, it could very well be a disease from the Paddletail newt. From now on, I would recommend separating your newts into different enclosures. Here's some links that may be helpful in this situation:

https://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/Mixing_disasters.shtml

https://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/bloatEDK.shtml

https://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/illness.shtml

https://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/sores.shtml
 
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