Kacki
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Hello Folks,
I have a question about how to cure an obviously sick axolotl - hoping that someone can share his experience with us or give us some further advice.
One of our axos (female) was first denying to eat for more than 3 weeks, coinciding with an apathetical behaviour, and finally she showed up an abcess on her head. So we took her to a vet who opened the abcess; the pus poured out. She disinfected the wound and gave us an oitment (Floxal) for further treatment. We applied it on a twice-per-day basis for approximately one week. Nothing special happened with her - neither a noticeable improvment nor deterioration of her condition (still denying to eat / very lazy / apathitic). After stopping to treat the wound with the oitment, new pus gathered in her wound. So we again consulted the vet and demanded for gentamycin, because we got this advice in another specialist's community (I have to mention here that our vet is no real specialist for axolotls, but for reptiles...). Now since 3 days we are bathing the axolotl in a slighlty salted genta/water composition (renewed daily) and still we notice some new pus coming out.
So, please let us know what you think - is it the correct therapy despite the fact that still pus is being produced? Is it ok - do we just have to be patient? Should we abort the antibiotic treatmant (in principal, I would never do so without deepest consideration...) or must we think about a different medicine?
Many thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts...
Kacki
I have a question about how to cure an obviously sick axolotl - hoping that someone can share his experience with us or give us some further advice.
One of our axos (female) was first denying to eat for more than 3 weeks, coinciding with an apathetical behaviour, and finally she showed up an abcess on her head. So we took her to a vet who opened the abcess; the pus poured out. She disinfected the wound and gave us an oitment (Floxal) for further treatment. We applied it on a twice-per-day basis for approximately one week. Nothing special happened with her - neither a noticeable improvment nor deterioration of her condition (still denying to eat / very lazy / apathitic). After stopping to treat the wound with the oitment, new pus gathered in her wound. So we again consulted the vet and demanded for gentamycin, because we got this advice in another specialist's community (I have to mention here that our vet is no real specialist for axolotls, but for reptiles...). Now since 3 days we are bathing the axolotl in a slighlty salted genta/water composition (renewed daily) and still we notice some new pus coming out.
So, please let us know what you think - is it the correct therapy despite the fact that still pus is being produced? Is it ok - do we just have to be patient? Should we abort the antibiotic treatmant (in principal, I would never do so without deepest consideration...) or must we think about a different medicine?
Many thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts...
Kacki