dead axie

[mizliz]

my sisters axolotl has recently died ( we think ) but we don't know what caused it. it hasnt been eating for about 4 day and it got skinnier and skinnier and it got all this gooey kind of stuff around its gills.It is now in a bucket not moving at all so were assuming its dead.

There is another axolotl in its tank and its fine though.

do u have any answers for why one died and the other didnt? thanks for your time

 

[ziggypie]

Four days isn't nearly enough for an axie to starve to death. There could be so many reasons- anything on the gills makes me consider a fungus attack or just a general tissue breakdown due to faulty housekeeping. What are your water parameters (nitrate/nitrite/pH/temperature/etc)? Maybe the conditions are to blame. I hope you are not keeping your healthy axolotl in a bucket [eep!] and instead keep a set-up for him comparable to that on the Axolotl site (link around top of page). Good luck!

 

[mizliz]

we just tested the water and it is all fine.The other axoltl is in the tank and is eating heaps of food. The dead axie,when we got him from the pet shop he had no left arm-because it had been bitten off by another axie. But that was about in february and the arm is fully healed now. But it is still dead.So maybe the tank wasnt set up properly we will look at the axolotl set up and make it similar to that

thanks for your time