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Dead axlotol?

YakuThe’Lotl

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I don’t know if he’s dead or what, but My young axlotol stopped eating for about a week and I go to give him a new bowl of food and he looks like this but he isn’t floating… so?
 

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I don’t know if he’s dead or what, but My young axlotol stopped eating for about a week and I go to give him a new bowl of food and he looks like this but he isn’t floating… so?
i’d touch him or wiggle some food in front of his face, from the state of his gills and the thinness of his body i’d say he starved to death.
 

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As suggested, try to gently touch him - or scoop him up in a net. Otherwise, just wait a bit longer; dead animals begin to decompose fairly rapidly and will quickly lose their typical color and structure.
 

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his gills also look extremely curled, if he is still alive, it’s barely so.
 
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