jessiecharlie
New member
Please Help!
I have just arrived home after 3 weeks away on my honeymoon and my poor Axie Barry is not looking good.
His head is very enlarged, he is missing a gill, his tail used to have a little kink in it (since we first had him) and from where the kink was is now missing (around .5cm), his eyes seem to be popping out of his head and he is barely moving.
My mother in law has been taking care of him, she did 4 water changes (we are in Sydney and it gets quite hot), feeding him a cube of fish dinner (blood worm/beef/fish/cube) every other day.
I have water testing kits and the nitrate is sitting @ 0, the ph is neutral @ 7, and I have just discovered that I should be testing for ammonia (which I didn't know before) so I will have to pick that up tomorrow.
I always put in a capful of "Prime" to remove ammonia after a water change, and a capful of "stabilizer" also (which I have just discovered I shouldn't be doing so will pick up the appropriate kits tomorrow)
I have just found out my MIL did not put in the "Prime" to remove the ammonia when she did the water changes over the past few weeks.
Could this be the reason he is looking like this?
Is there any chance he will survive?
I have already done a 30% water change but I will now do 100% change.
Pics are attached of the poor little guy
Any advice would be wonderful.
Oh and I have already checked his little mouth, nothing lodged in there, bare bottom tank so nothing to swallow.
Thanks!
I have just arrived home after 3 weeks away on my honeymoon and my poor Axie Barry is not looking good.
His head is very enlarged, he is missing a gill, his tail used to have a little kink in it (since we first had him) and from where the kink was is now missing (around .5cm), his eyes seem to be popping out of his head and he is barely moving.
My mother in law has been taking care of him, she did 4 water changes (we are in Sydney and it gets quite hot), feeding him a cube of fish dinner (blood worm/beef/fish/cube) every other day.
I have water testing kits and the nitrate is sitting @ 0, the ph is neutral @ 7, and I have just discovered that I should be testing for ammonia (which I didn't know before) so I will have to pick that up tomorrow.
I always put in a capful of "Prime" to remove ammonia after a water change, and a capful of "stabilizer" also (which I have just discovered I shouldn't be doing so will pick up the appropriate kits tomorrow)
I have just found out my MIL did not put in the "Prime" to remove the ammonia when she did the water changes over the past few weeks.
Could this be the reason he is looking like this?
Is there any chance he will survive?
I have already done a 30% water change but I will now do 100% change.
Pics are attached of the poor little guy
Any advice would be wonderful.
Oh and I have already checked his little mouth, nothing lodged in there, bare bottom tank so nothing to swallow.
Thanks!