Bad Aub
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My female axolotl is having trouble eating and seemed to stop altogether a little more than a week ago. She is about 1 1/2 years old. We feed her salmon pellets, usually five a day until she stopped eating. When we drop them down to her she doesn't suck them out of the water like she used to do. She opens her mouth very little and proceeds to expand and contract her neck, it looks like a frog ribbetting. The pellet stays in her mouth for a bit and then falls out. She does not attempt to eat it on her own. She has also been throwing up partially digested food that does end up in her stomach and her neck does the same thin as when she seems to try and swallow. We thought she might have a blockage.
Our attempts to help include:
- Fridging her for 2 1/2 days where she pooped twice. The first was messy and broken up while the second looked like partially digested food/throw up. I changed her water every 12 hours. We chose fridging since it seemed to be a digestive issue.
- Checked for fungus - none to be seen.
- Ammonia, nitrate, and ph levels are normal. ph is about 6.8-7.0
- After fridging and pooping we took her out of the fridge and let her warm up slowly. Then we tried feeding her and the weird neck thing continued.
- She is back in the fridge.
We're worried it might be a parasite. What should we do? I have looked all over, but nothing seems to match our symptoms.
Our attempts to help include:
- Fridging her for 2 1/2 days where she pooped twice. The first was messy and broken up while the second looked like partially digested food/throw up. I changed her water every 12 hours. We chose fridging since it seemed to be a digestive issue.
- Checked for fungus - none to be seen.
- Ammonia, nitrate, and ph levels are normal. ph is about 6.8-7.0
- After fridging and pooping we took her out of the fridge and let her warm up slowly. Then we tried feeding her and the weird neck thing continued.
- She is back in the fridge.
We're worried it might be a parasite. What should we do? I have looked all over, but nothing seems to match our symptoms.