Through death, pain and struggles - I present my Survivors.

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Was looking through Facebook pictures the other day, and I found these:
3 months old, when some of the other guys were still alive. He was the first one to get this big:
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4 months old:
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5 months old:
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10 months old:
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As you can see, Cocoa (the brown one) likes human contact, whereas Sparky (the gold one) will panic if he sees a human. One time, he flipped out and smacked his nose on the glass, ricocheted backwards and got stuck in a plant - I had to help him out of the plant, and he wouldn't stop thrashing about.
Cocoa also likes to bite my finger ;D

Basically, I got 24 Axolotl spawn for my birthday. They all ate alot of their food, however none of them grew apart from the two I have now. They all ended up dying. The ones who were left at the end died a horrible death - but died in comfort. An insect got into my food supply, somehow (from the shop :/ haven't bought from there for a long time), and killed one of them, I killed it before the other one died completely - he ended up passing within the half an hour surrounded by all of the food he could eat. He ate a little bit of it, before I came back, wished him well, and watched his final moments play out right in front of me.

The two I have now have had some "experiences", should I say. Sparky has fallen ill 5 times, to the point where i've had to leave him in new water by himself. Cocoa has never really been ill.

Also, does anybody have an answer as to why one of them is tame and the other isn't? They seem to know when they're about to get food, and Cocoa is usually the one who likes to have it first. Is that linked in any way?
 
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    Dear All, I would appreciate some help identifying P. waltl disease and treatment. We received newts from Europe early November and a few maybe 3/70 had what it looked like lesions under the legs- at that time we thought maybe it was the stress of travel- now we think they probably had "red leg syndrome" (see picture). However a few weeks later other newts started to develop skin lesions (picture enclosed). The sender recommended to use sulfamerazine and we have treated them 2x and we are not sure they are all recovering. Does anyone have any experience with P. waltl diseases and could give some input on this? Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
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  • Katia Del Rio-Tsonis:
    sorry I am having a hard time trying to upload the pictures- I have them saved on my hard drive... any suggestions-the prompts here are not allowing for downloads that way as far as I can tell. Thanks
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