HELP!!!! Sick Axie!

[Risa23]

Hello all!

I went away for a few days over the weekend and my axolotl was perfectly healthy! I came back today and he looked dead. I thought he had first been caught under the pot that is his home..but when I moved it, he moved (I think I might have slightly frightened him). That's when I noticed that it looks like his skin is peeling. It was not like that when I left. I am very worried that he is not going to survive this. I contacted the student who is in charge of caring for them and he suggested a salt bath, which I am currently doing. I just wanted to know if anyone else has had this problem at all. If so, what did you do to help your axie?

 

[Fidget]

It looks like a fungus, so a salt bath is a good place to start. Cool, clean, dechlorinated water changed every day should be his home until he feels better. Keep a bucket of dechlorinated water out and put him in a container with the water, change it every day. I don't know if you should do salt baths every day or not, I've only done (and am currently doing) tea baths, so I don't know if there's a difference in treatment.

 

[Risa23]

Thanks for your input. I just found this tonight and my professor, who is somewhat of an expert on axies, is out on vacation right now. So I asked the student in charge what to do and he said a salt bath but I just wanted another axie owners opinion. Hopefully Guillermo will be doing better in a few days.

 

[Quentari]

Is that on top of the skin?? from the pics it looks like it's just a hole into his insides!! D:

 

[Risa23]

It was the top portion of his skin. Sadly, he didn't make it through the night

 

[Petersgirl]

I'm very sorry for your loss May he swim under the rainbow bridge.

 

[pookiewn]

I'm sorry for your loss, poor thing. May he rest in peace.

Do you have any other inhabitants in the tank? Looks like he was eaten by something.

 

[Risa23]

No, at the time this happened he was the only animal in the tank. I had some feeder fish in there about a week prior so I'm wondering if they might have been infected and then when he ate them, got infected. I'm extremely sad that I lost him but luckily my college had a few left so I now have a new baby lotl.