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Illness/Sickness: Swollen cloaca? (lol)

iAxolotl

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Well i discovered my golden albino ( I got him for a week now) has swollen balls or whatever it is called.
I try to make more pics, My other axie got nothing :S
Edit: He's also walking the whole time with his backpart of his body floating :S
 

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Re: Swollen balls? (lol)

That's called the cloaca. That doesn't look very good. I am not experienced with this kind of stuff, but it might be cloaca prolapse (?)
 
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Re: Swollen balls? (lol)

Before you go into a full blown panic, could you post some more pictures of your axolotl. Full length and so on. I am not too worried about their size, my axolotl males seem to get larger every now and then. But more pictures would help confirm if there is anything to worry about.
 
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Re: Swollen balls? (lol)

it doesnt look quite like the photos of prolapsed cloacas i've seen, but it does look a little swollen.

More pictures, water parameters etc will help you get help

Bren
 
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Re: Swollen balls? (lol)

Well after 2/1 Hour(s) it became back to normal :S
So i can't make more pictures of it.
 
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Good! Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you ^_^().
 
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From that photo, it looks like my leucistic males cloaca when he is dropping spermatophores.

Mel
 
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