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Sorry to start another bloated/swollen axolotl post, but I didn't want it to get lost.
My younger brother has had a brown axolotl, Rosie (not actually 100% sure of its sex) for 4 years. She has a tank to herself with a filter, a couple of plants and no gravel and has always been perfectly healthy. She's been missing a foot since we got her but it's slowly re-growing.
We feed her a variety of things but she's currently eating cockles. The tank is regularly cleaned although we never change all the water, always leave the new water standing etc
We recently moved her tank (still in the same room, just a different position) and the other day she was lying on her back, not moving. We thought she was dead so we went to fish her out and discovered she wasn't dead. Since then she's lying the right way up but is swollen up all over, including her head. She was eating but seems to have stopped.
After reading the other bloated axolotl posts on her we've moved her into a smaller tank with the same water, the filter and have put her into an unheated back room- we can't put her in the fridge at the moment but it is pretty cold in there.
Does anybody know what might be wrong with her?
She's never been ill in all the time we've had her and we're wondering if it could be because of moving the tank?
Any help would be greatly appreciated- we were really upset when we thought she'd died but she's not very healthy looking and we don't want her to actually die this time!
Thanks.
My younger brother has had a brown axolotl, Rosie (not actually 100% sure of its sex) for 4 years. She has a tank to herself with a filter, a couple of plants and no gravel and has always been perfectly healthy. She's been missing a foot since we got her but it's slowly re-growing.
We feed her a variety of things but she's currently eating cockles. The tank is regularly cleaned although we never change all the water, always leave the new water standing etc
We recently moved her tank (still in the same room, just a different position) and the other day she was lying on her back, not moving. We thought she was dead so we went to fish her out and discovered she wasn't dead. Since then she's lying the right way up but is swollen up all over, including her head. She was eating but seems to have stopped.
After reading the other bloated axolotl posts on her we've moved her into a smaller tank with the same water, the filter and have put her into an unheated back room- we can't put her in the fridge at the moment but it is pretty cold in there.
Does anybody know what might be wrong with her?
She's never been ill in all the time we've had her and we're wondering if it could be because of moving the tank?
Any help would be greatly appreciated- we were really upset when we thought she'd died but she's not very healthy looking and we don't want her to actually die this time!
Thanks.