Limb regeneration

Hello everyone.

So about two weeks ago I rescued a little axie from the pet shop (short gills, all 4 legs busy regenerating).

He was quite skinny, so naturally I fed him lots of earthworms. He ended up vomiting out 5 (rather large for such a small guy) pebbles. Since then, he has gained weight, but not as fast as the other axies I nursed to good health.

My guess is that a large part of this energy he gets from food goes to his regeneration? In that case, I'm wondering how long it will take, since his stumps have hardly grown at all and I have no experience with limb regeneration.

The axie in question is about 15cm/6 inches.

All water values are perfect, I measure them often enough
And all my other axies are in perfect health.
Temperature tends to balance between 19°C and 20°C.

Other than feeding, is there anything else I can do to help him?

Thanks

Regeneration time varies with age. That size I would say 3-4 weeks maybe? Don't quote me on that but that's what I've seen from my experience.
Keep the little fellas water nice and clean and give him some nice fat worms and he'll heal up famously There's nothing else that you can really do but wait.
Good luck!

I only have experience in little ones (3-4in) regenerating limbs & I found that mine completely stopped growing & seemed to concentrate all energy on the limb regeneration - it took 4 weeks to regrow completely from a only about a 3mm stub. After it regrew it then started growing big & strong & is still just a bit behind the other now.

Keeping lots of good food available & keeping water healthy is all they need - their amazing system takes care of the rest

Sounds like you're doing everything right - maybe it'll take longer because its larger - it sounds like he's in good hands & he'll be a very grateful rescued axie



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It might take longer depending on damage. The rebuild of a tissue starts only when last of the damaged and dead cells are out of the way. So it is sometimes better to amputate or remove the rest of the limb just to accelerate the process.

I don't think I'll amputate, there seems to be no dead tissue.

Two toes have already appeared on the longest stump, so that's good

I guess I'll wait and see how the rest goes

I once had a tiny leucistic axolotl. Her sibling ate pretty much her whole tail off. I put her in a small tub and actually I thought she would just die.
But she didn't. The tail grew back completely and now she's a healthy 21 cm (still growing) axolotl, like nothing happened.

But it took her about a month to grow back a brand new tail. I guess it takes pretty much the same time (or even less. Maybe 2 or 3 weeks or so) for your axie to regenerate the limbs completely.