Yaimfat
New member
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2010
- Messages
- 96
- Reaction score
- 2
- Points
- 0
- Location
- Sydney
- Country
- Australia
- Display Name
- Jake
Hi,
My axolotl, Mr Mastofoles, recently fell ill with what appeared to be a fungal gill infection. She had lost much of her right gill with a previous infection and it never repaired, most likely due to my ignorance of water parameters though luckily she never died, especially despite my cleaning the tank completely once a month in total ignorance of the nitrogen cycle. I recently purchased a male axie and he and her mated, the eggs are now hatched and the larvae are growing My concern however is that shortly afterward i cleaned the tank to remove the egg membranes that were left over and she fell ill, her right gill became fuzzy and red but with some pimafix that has cleared up. The lady at the pet store said the water quality wasn't great and now with some test kits and much more knowledge the pH is stable at around 7, the ammonia reads at below .50ppm and i have no way of testing for nitrites or nitrates, yet... After the water quality was fixed however she developed a fungus on the cloaca that isn't going away and it has been four days with the pimafix! Im becoming worried... My male, Mrs Mastofoles has yet to develop anything however so that is good... As well as the fungus she was recently floating at the tail and gulping air regularly however the addition of an air stone cured the air gulping and a large poop appears to have stopped the floating... I feed them, as of a week ago, beef heart as well as meal worms but am looking into a better staple diet, any suggestions? I also had a sea snail in the tank formerly aswell though removed it in case of parasites and feeding on the axies mucus layer. She also has a slightly curled tail and upturned gills on the left... That is about all I think I can say... any suggestions on the cloaca fungus? Is it possible in birth she tore her cloaca or that it became infected? She is still eating and apart from the described signs shows little stress...
Thank You!!
My axolotl, Mr Mastofoles, recently fell ill with what appeared to be a fungal gill infection. She had lost much of her right gill with a previous infection and it never repaired, most likely due to my ignorance of water parameters though luckily she never died, especially despite my cleaning the tank completely once a month in total ignorance of the nitrogen cycle. I recently purchased a male axie and he and her mated, the eggs are now hatched and the larvae are growing My concern however is that shortly afterward i cleaned the tank to remove the egg membranes that were left over and she fell ill, her right gill became fuzzy and red but with some pimafix that has cleared up. The lady at the pet store said the water quality wasn't great and now with some test kits and much more knowledge the pH is stable at around 7, the ammonia reads at below .50ppm and i have no way of testing for nitrites or nitrates, yet... After the water quality was fixed however she developed a fungus on the cloaca that isn't going away and it has been four days with the pimafix! Im becoming worried... My male, Mrs Mastofoles has yet to develop anything however so that is good... As well as the fungus she was recently floating at the tail and gulping air regularly however the addition of an air stone cured the air gulping and a large poop appears to have stopped the floating... I feed them, as of a week ago, beef heart as well as meal worms but am looking into a better staple diet, any suggestions? I also had a sea snail in the tank formerly aswell though removed it in case of parasites and feeding on the axies mucus layer. She also has a slightly curled tail and upturned gills on the left... That is about all I think I can say... any suggestions on the cloaca fungus? Is it possible in birth she tore her cloaca or that it became infected? She is still eating and apart from the described signs shows little stress...
Thank You!!