Hey guys. Long time no see. Unfortunately it is with bad news that I come back from my hiatus. While I've been away, I adopted Albus and Jinx, my old roommate's axolotls. They've been great for months, but the other day we ran into a problem.
I had gone to feed everyone, when I opened my worm container to find all of them dead. Of course I couldn't feed my axies dead, moldy worms, so I asked my boyfriend to go to the store and get more...
...a few minutes later I walk by Albus and Jinx's tank, to see Jinx in a curled position, holding his arm out oddly. Then I saw the injury.
It seems that Albus took a good chunk of flesh out of Jinx when he realized he wasn't getting a worm. I'm pretty upset about this because it's been a very long time since we've had a serious injury.
I immediately put Jinx in the fridge, where he has spent most of his time since this happened, which was Wednesday evening.
Here's a link to some images. The first group of them were taken one day after the attack, and the last two were taken just now. You can see how his limb is swollen and discolored.
My basic plan is to monitor it closely, offer him food often, and basically keep him mostly in the fridge until the wound starts to close (if he doesn't drop the leg).
My question is can you guys think of any other measures I can take to make this easier on him, or to make sure fungus won't set in?
I had gone to feed everyone, when I opened my worm container to find all of them dead. Of course I couldn't feed my axies dead, moldy worms, so I asked my boyfriend to go to the store and get more...
...a few minutes later I walk by Albus and Jinx's tank, to see Jinx in a curled position, holding his arm out oddly. Then I saw the injury.
It seems that Albus took a good chunk of flesh out of Jinx when he realized he wasn't getting a worm. I'm pretty upset about this because it's been a very long time since we've had a serious injury.
I immediately put Jinx in the fridge, where he has spent most of his time since this happened, which was Wednesday evening.
Here's a link to some images. The first group of them were taken one day after the attack, and the last two were taken just now. You can see how his limb is swollen and discolored.
My basic plan is to monitor it closely, offer him food often, and basically keep him mostly in the fridge until the wound starts to close (if he doesn't drop the leg).
My question is can you guys think of any other measures I can take to make this easier on him, or to make sure fungus won't set in?