Illness/Sickness: My sick swollen Axolotl

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Hi
I am writting as a last chance to save my sick axolotl if he is not better or improving by Saturday I am going to take him to the vets to put him to sleep.

My Axolotl "Sam" is very, very swollen. He is 18 months old, he lives with my others axolotl in the same tank.

about four months ago, he stopped eating and became swollen,I took him to the vets who said she thought it was a parasite and sent tests of to the laboratory. She treated him with a diuretic, Panacur for worms and Flagyl for parasites; she also took fluid from him. One week later he was back eating and very active, after three/ four weeks he stopped eating again and I took him back to the vets, she gave him a scan, more Panicure and flagyl. He seemed better after a few days and ate a couple of meals, then stopped eating and gradually became more and more swollen, Last week I took about 20 ml of the fluid out of him with a syringe and gave him some diuretic and prednisolone, today I repeated the procedure, unfortunately I am not seeing much sigh of improvement .

Has any one out there any idea what the trouble might be ???

I know it is not the water because I have read all readable litrature on the subject also because my othere axolotl "Millie" is fine.
Can any one out there help???
 
G'day, Linda,

I have to admit that most of the medications that you are using are not familiar to me at all. In fact, I have never come across anyone who has injected medication directly into their axolotl, but that's not to say that it's unorthodox.

Anyway, I read your other post where you said that axolotl could be suffering from ascites. Once again, I haven't come across this, but I do know that an axolotl can be genetically predisposed to this condition. Some axolotls have the mutant gene for ascites (as). I guess it could explain why your axolotl never makes a full recovery, and probably never will. Undoubtedly, that's not very comforting words on my part, but it does offer a possible answer.

Jay.
 
Was this vet a specialist in fish/amphibians? If not then I can safely say she may have no experience with axolotls.
There are a few specialists in Australia, google it up.
 
Linda, did you get the results of the tests from the vet? If I were you, I would take him somewhere else for a second opinion, before giving up hope. I wish you good luck

Kal El, yes, I have also had to inject medication myself to one of my axie (antibiotics), which were prescribed by a specialist vet.
 
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