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Hello!
We are in desperate need of advice regarding our sick axolotl. We have two axolotls for little over a year now, but since last summer one of our axolotls is eating less and less. It started more or less after we had moved our axolotls when we were on holiday for a week. After that, one of our axolotls started eating less and less (sometimes eating a pellet but then spitting it out again), while the other one started gaining weight (maybe because he ate all the leftovers?). At first we thought is was due to the stress of the move and also the hot summer, but then it didn't improve. However nothing really changed compared to before the summer, when they were doing fine. We tried seperating them and feeding it blood worms but neither helped. We checked all the water parameters (pH, ammonia, nitrate and nitrite) with a test kit (with liquids) and they were all fine. We also noticed that when comparing to early pictures of them, their gills have shrunk a lot, so this for both of them. We now moved the sick axolotl to our bedroom because it's cooler there. The water temperature of tank here in the usual room was 20°C, which is not perfect, but should be okay we thought. But also the move doesn't seem to help so we are kind of desperate what to do now because our axolotl has become véry skinny and we are afraid he might die. Can anybody give us any suggestions what to do?
Big thanks!
We are in desperate need of advice regarding our sick axolotl. We have two axolotls for little over a year now, but since last summer one of our axolotls is eating less and less. It started more or less after we had moved our axolotls when we were on holiday for a week. After that, one of our axolotls started eating less and less (sometimes eating a pellet but then spitting it out again), while the other one started gaining weight (maybe because he ate all the leftovers?). At first we thought is was due to the stress of the move and also the hot summer, but then it didn't improve. However nothing really changed compared to before the summer, when they were doing fine. We tried seperating them and feeding it blood worms but neither helped. We checked all the water parameters (pH, ammonia, nitrate and nitrite) with a test kit (with liquids) and they were all fine. We also noticed that when comparing to early pictures of them, their gills have shrunk a lot, so this for both of them. We now moved the sick axolotl to our bedroom because it's cooler there. The water temperature of tank here in the usual room was 20°C, which is not perfect, but should be okay we thought. But also the move doesn't seem to help so we are kind of desperate what to do now because our axolotl has become véry skinny and we are afraid he might die. Can anybody give us any suggestions what to do?
Big thanks!