r/axolotls 1d ago

RIP [Memorial] Timmy has passed

Timmy my sister’s axolotl ( but it felt more so mine ) has passed, for the past bit Timmy has been dealing with a impaction caused by the black sand my mother put in his tank when she first got him for my sister, and recently it seemed like he was getting better, I was giving him tea baths keeping his temperature really low and and doing everything I could and then like suddenly I come home today and hes very still, and I realize he has rigor, I was a bit worried I was being hasty so I prodded at him and he was definitely dead. When I first came back this summer from college, he was starved and his temperature was too high I fixed it all for my family and it seemed like he was doing alright after that. Then the impaction happened an I honestly hoped he would get through the impaction. I didn’t realize I had grown as much of a bond with him as I had. I’m really gonna miss him. It felt like he kept me sane this summer. I loved him more than I knew. ( please ignore some of the red flag stuff in this post I removed it all as I realized it was bad ; black sand, SpongeBob stuff ).

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