Flaky/Peeling Skin prob

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My black adult axie (lotty) appears to have flaking or peeling skin over her body. It is coming off in pieces is basically it is on her head and down the sides of her and a bit on her tail.

Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate are all normal. Ph is normal all water levels are fine and normal.

Water current is fine, there appears to be no visual signs that the water current is affecting her at all. There isn't much water flow at all. And most of it is at the surface and is only minute where the water comes in from the spray bar.

Water temperature is fine. It sits at 21 degrees all day everyday. They are acustomed to this temperature.

She is eating normal, she is expressing normal behaviour.

Lotty is the only one out of the 4 adults to have this problem.

After administering anti-fungal treatments the problem clears up then comes back slowly.

What do i do?
What is the problem?
Can anyone help me?
Please!!!

Thank you.

(Message edited by brendan on February 27, 2005)
 
It's good that all your readings are normal and she is behaving normally. But just in case an infection is involved you might want to separate Lotty from the others. Put her in the fridge an administer salt baths 3 per day 10 mins each.

Try and stick with a dry food like pellets while she recovers. If your others are ok it is unlikely but live food might be carrying some bug.

Brendan remind me is this a recurrant problem with this axie? i.e. a few weeks to a couple of months?

Are there any other symptoms soreness, redness etc?

Good luck for now...
 
Brendan - My only thoughts would be that it is fungus. I would treat her and keep her in the fridge until the fungus is completely clear.

Once it cools off there hopefully your tank will cool down as well and she wont get fungus so often.

She could perhaps just be more prone to fungus than your other axolotls.
 
Yes mik it is reoccuring. It happened a few weeks ago. Same axie same problem, all readings where fine then too.

I can not see any swelling, redness or abraisions but what i do notice is she is loosing colour. Fading to a grey colour. But this is only on her bottom half.

That is why i am confused. If it is the live food (crickets, worms) then i would assume it would affect the other 3.

If it was something to do with temperature or something to do with the tank that i dont know about then i again would assume it would affect the other 3.

I'm at TAFE atm, but when i get home i'll put her into a seperate container and keep my eye on her again.

Also i have taken pics but have not gotten around to uploading them from the PC to the net which i will do when i get home. This will show exactly what i am talking about in regards to how much skin is flaking and what it looks like. And will also show the fading of colour from black to grey.

Thanks for the reply's. Much appreciated.

(Message edited by brendan on February 28, 2005)
 
Probably velvet Brendan... my axie got flaky skin then died (he lost his colour too)... but it's quite strange that my axolotls did NOT 'flash' when it started to have those flaky stuff. Show that pic and I'll tell if it's velvet or not.
 
Yeah you're right... cute pic... I'm gonna get a Melanoid this time and call it Kuro Ryu (Black Dragon) but it might be given a different name.
 
mine is doing it aswell mine is a black axie it is mostly on his tail what did you do to get rid of it
 
its stopped now its ok im sure it looked like fungus but o well its stopped so it doesnt matter any more
 
I've put her problem down to a reaction to crickets...

Everytime she has crickets she will flake her skin. So i've been keeping her off crickets and she is doing wonderfully.
 
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