orbis
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Hello!
My boyfriends axolotl developed a small fuzzy bump on it's rear leg sometime in the past 24 hours. There is another small bump right behind the leg on the tail, but it is not fuzzy (you might barely be able to see it in the pictures). His gills are also curled forward quite a bit which is very unusual for him, so he appears to be under some sort of stress.
He did a water change yesterday, that is the only recent change to his tank. He's bringing me a water sample to test tomorrow so I don't know the water parameters at the moment but can update later. He did previously have an artificial plant in the tank that wasn't super sharp but could have scratched the axolotl, he did often hang out in the plant so that's possible. The plant was removed today after noticing the lump.
The axolotl hatched in October and is about 5 - 6 inches long. My boyfriend's very worried about him, so any advice would be greatly appreciated, I haven't seen this on any of my axolotls before.
Hopefully the attached pictures are helpful!
My boyfriends axolotl developed a small fuzzy bump on it's rear leg sometime in the past 24 hours. There is another small bump right behind the leg on the tail, but it is not fuzzy (you might barely be able to see it in the pictures). His gills are also curled forward quite a bit which is very unusual for him, so he appears to be under some sort of stress.
He did a water change yesterday, that is the only recent change to his tank. He's bringing me a water sample to test tomorrow so I don't know the water parameters at the moment but can update later. He did previously have an artificial plant in the tank that wasn't super sharp but could have scratched the axolotl, he did often hang out in the plant so that's possible. The plant was removed today after noticing the lump.
The axolotl hatched in October and is about 5 - 6 inches long. My boyfriend's very worried about him, so any advice would be greatly appreciated, I haven't seen this on any of my axolotls before.
Hopefully the attached pictures are helpful!