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Illness/Sickness: Axolotl not eating!?

sebguy

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Okay, so my axie-ari recently got over a bad fungal infection about a month ago, for the following weak and a bit she was eating fine behaving fine and seemed generally happy, however about a week ago she stopped eating and slowly got weaker and weaker... the other night i got her to eat a tiny bit of food but other than nothing. please help as she is getting very skinny and her arms and legs are looking quite bony:(
temp-18.9
and all other chemistry as fine(ive been checking it frequently and been doing weakly water changes) also ive been feeding her this->Fish Fuel - Axolotl Food
 

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Do you notice anything else unusual? Like any colouring changes? from my understanding from posts here is that those frozen cubes contain a lot of seafood and are considered not the best staple food diet. However axolotls I had years ago were fed these and seemed to do pretty well on them. Have you tried other foods? You could try a scallop to tempt her to eat. These aren't the best long term but just to get something into her and tempt her to eat it may be worth trying.
 

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I haven't noticed any kind of change in colour however her gill filaments have deteriorated a bit
and with the food i have tried earthworms before but she didn't seem to be interested in them.
and she has been lunging at the food and even occasionally having a snap at the food, but she never seems to get her mouth far enough open. Recently however, she hasn't been going for the food when i hand feed it to her.
 
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