Question: Dark Spots on my albino axolotl

Re: Black spots on my albino axolotl, please help

I did it but is no superficial, If I dont get any other opinion I would get the antibiotic. Thanks for your help
 
Ok but axolotls dont do it, Do you know why the black spots appear in these animals before they shed?
 
Re: Black spots on my albino axolotl, please help

EM erythromycin has saved my Axies several times so it is my go to medicine ?. I wasn't sure if you tried salt bathing but usually that is for external fungal infections. If you have already done it and didn't see a difference then salt bathing is not going to help.

What you are showing is a little new and different. It is hard to pinpoint what it is. Basically if your axie eats healthy and behaves normally you can assume the axolotl is spotty and may have been a mixed breed. If your axie is sick, it will behave sick, ie not eat, be lethargic, float and look miserable, tries to scratch itself, etc. When they are very young, you can't see their skin discolourations.

Again definitely do share / confirm your water parameters. If your parameters are poor, no medicine is going to help.
 
Re: Black spots on my albino axolotl, please help

I have used salt bathing once when she had fungus in her grills, It solved the problem. I havent thought to used it now because I think is not a fungal infection like you say, but I will try. I cant check the water parameters because I cant find the testers in my country, I do a water change of 20% every 10 days or so with deschlorine water, I have a very good filter and the water looks very clean that s all I can say but I really dont think the water parameters are the problem now.

She behaves and eats normally, Her parents are an a albino and a melanoid. But I think The black spots and the darker skin around cant be normal because her skin is also rougher in this areas
 
Re: Black spots on my albino axolotl, please help

Ah there is your answer right there. Her parents being Melanoid and Albino. Usually mixed breeds will carry traits of both parents so it is not surprising she will have black spots. If she is eating well (she looks like a healthy axolotl to me) then I suspect it is her black spots from her Melanoid parent starting to show. How old is she now? An adult is a year old. As they age they do get more wrinkly. Some more wrinkly than others. My six year old female has tons of wrinkles under her chin, almost like she is a granny already.

Do not give your axolotl a salt bath. I think your first post about it was quite some time ago. If an axie is sick for over a month, they would have passed away already. I read your older post from the other thread and you never mentioned one of the parents is Melanoid. Personally I think your axie is absolutely fine but that is just me reading and seeing pictures. You are the one who sees her everyday, if you truly believe she is ill you can attempt the antibiotics, if nothing changes in 10 days then she is normal
 
Re: Black spots on my albino axolotl, please help

She is 1 year and 7 months old, I first noticed the black spots around 2 months ago and they have been expanding. Yes her parents might be the cause but what worries me is that the texture of her skin in this areas is different is dryer I mean It doesnt have the slippery texture. Are you saying that this could be normal? Thanks for your time
 
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I would keep my eye on it regardless, since there is not a whole lot of research for axolotls as pets susceptible to illnesses. Basically all you can do is watch for any behaviour symptoms they have if they are ill. Again a happy and healthy axolotl is one who is eager to eat, swim around and poop.

If you still need some other confirmation then behold! My axolotl's glorious, wrinkly butt. :)
 

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Re: Black spots on my albino axolotl, please help

Hey, heres my worst case scenario guess; by the looks of the big transparent layer of blob surrounding him, my guess is he could be heavy hit by fungus caused of very high ammonia levels in water. If you have been overfeeding him (not saying you have), overfeeding equals uneaten food and/or lots of poo wich then again means ammonioa levels rise to sky high level wich means negative bacterias - with them comes the fungus and paresites, and by the looks of how far (the dots if they are parasites) have etablished (they could have started developing from his cloak - again, dirty water - and they are now spreading through the body), but this is all guessing.

I dont keep axoloths myself so i am in no way an expert on them. but i have had fungus problems with dwarf frogs before that was due to bad filtration and high bacteria levels.

But as the gentleman above me kinda mentions, if he stops eating you have to react fast. Amphibians break so very easely. Good luck and hopefully its nothing to worry about
 
ive been having that all across my gfp leusistic axolotl. it was removable so i would assume its poop. once i started cleaning up their poop more often, his back started to get less poop on it. try cleaning out the poop more often and maybe do a better job at cleaning the tank
 
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