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Illness/Sickness: Bloated and emaciated axolotl, very thin and won't eat.

Orangeneer

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I'm recently rescued an axolotl from a friend, and he was very thin and emancipated. I just moved him from a ten gallon tank to a 20 gal last night, and about 2 hours later he became bloated on the left side. He already was a scarce eater, and won't eat the night crawlers now. I have been feeding him repashy grub pie usually. The first photo is the tank, lights only on for photo purposes, its dark else wise. The second photo is him last night. The third photo was 5 minutes ago. Please help, I am very worried.
 

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Re: Bloated and emancipated axolotl, very thin and won't eat.

I'm sorry, your photo's are not showing up.

Can you provide your tank parameters and temperature please?
 

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I'm sorry, your photo's are not showing up.

Can you provide your tank parameters and temperature please?

The tank is a 20 gallon standard, and the tempature reader I have is broken for the 20gal, I have to get a new one. But he is in a 36 degree Fahrenheit water currently, but bloating has gotten worse.
I'll try the photos again as well
 

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