Illness/Sickness: HE'S DYING! please please help!!!

[daremo]

snails are also carriers of parasites, but if they lived in the tank long enough I guess they didn't have anything bad...

if deodorant or any other chemical was in the tank it should have affected the other axie as well right?

it's quite rare, for the symptoms I would think something like poisoning...

I'm really sorry about your axie, I do hope Charlie is ok, I would remove him from the tank as advised just in case, and maybe clean the tank?

 

[Kaysie]

I had an axolotl recently do something quite similar. I had a 7 year old melanoid male (my first axolotl, even *sniff*). He went off his food, eating only occasionally. This went on for a couple of months. He was never extremely thin, but thin enough that I could easily point out hip bones. Then he started swimming very spastically, almost like he was having a seizure. I had him in the fridge for multiple weeks, but it did little good. I put him back in his tank with the others to live out a 'normal life' for a few days, and he died the next day.

I have no idea what could have caused it, nor does anyone I've consulted with. My best guess is that it was some kind of infection in the neural system. It did not infect the other axolotls, whom have all been living together for years. But that's really just clutching at straws.

 

[sam1014]

Awww thats ashame Kaysie, thats exactly what happened to mine, was horrible seeing him having his fits. Its ashame he didnt survive, at least you know you did everything you could.

So, i need to know what i'm doing about my tank?
Charlie is in the fridge now, he seems to be doing ok in there.
Need to know how long to keep him in there and what to do with my tank water?


thankyou for all the help guys

sam.

 

[Kaysie]

I was pretty bummed. Unfortunately all my pathologist friends are far away from where I currently live, so I couldn't do a necropsy.

As for the tank, I'd drain it and empty it of everything. Then rinse the tank and everything in it in a 10% bleach solution. Allow everything to air dry without rinsing it. Then rinse it, and rinse it, and rinse it some more. Bleach dissapates (or evaporates) pretty readily, If you have a substrate, just replace that.

Good luck.