Hello, I'm new to this forum and also to the world of axolotls.
I have got a pair of axolotls a week ago. I have been checking water in the tank regulary and it was good. Nevertheless the aquarium store gave me beside bloodworms fish food and told me it was safe to give it to axolotls. They didn't eat it and when I came back the water smelled strange. So I did the complete change of water and I continued changing 40% of it every thay. Unfortunately the day after (yesterday) one of my axolotls started swimming near the top and his gills turned white. After reading different posts on forums I have suspected a fungus infection so I placed him in a big tupperware where I keep changing water twice a day and I also gave him a salt bath with pure NaCl yesterday evening and this morning. He stopped eating and seems no better. His gills have reduced and turned completely white except one. He brathes from the top from time to time. He also has a small wound on his leg covered with white. I will take him tomorrow to the vet. I tried to find the methylene blue but it seems it is out of use in France. What shall I do until tomorrow afternoon? Shell I fridge him and continue with salt baths (at the same temperature)? I desperately need an advice, I wand to help him, but I don't know how as I have no experience with this kind of animal.
I have got a pair of axolotls a week ago. I have been checking water in the tank regulary and it was good. Nevertheless the aquarium store gave me beside bloodworms fish food and told me it was safe to give it to axolotls. They didn't eat it and when I came back the water smelled strange. So I did the complete change of water and I continued changing 40% of it every thay. Unfortunately the day after (yesterday) one of my axolotls started swimming near the top and his gills turned white. After reading different posts on forums I have suspected a fungus infection so I placed him in a big tupperware where I keep changing water twice a day and I also gave him a salt bath with pure NaCl yesterday evening and this morning. He stopped eating and seems no better. His gills have reduced and turned completely white except one. He brathes from the top from time to time. He also has a small wound on his leg covered with white. I will take him tomorrow to the vet. I tried to find the methylene blue but it seems it is out of use in France. What shall I do until tomorrow afternoon? Shell I fridge him and continue with salt baths (at the same temperature)? I desperately need an advice, I wand to help him, but I don't know how as I have no experience with this kind of animal.