Question: Double Chinned/Swollen Looking Throat??

[Huskar]

Double Chinned/Swollen Looking Throat?? Plus Odd Behaviour

Hi, I`m a very newb with axolotls and I have a leucistic and a gfp wild type Axie. recently I have noticed the wild type`s throat looking a bit bigger than normal, when I looked at other axie pictures they have similar looking throat but I have no idea if it's illness or normal growth. please help Im very worried

I keep my tank temperature around 60~64F with a chiller and everything is good, I've tested the water quality and its at 0 ammonia,0 nitrite and under 10 nitrate, ph is around 7.8, I do my water change every week around 20~40% depending on how much poop particles on the sand and my leucistic`s throat is fine but the wild type is worrying me. there are times when there is a lot of little particles of poop because I couldn't pick them up because they separated when I was at work.

The tank smells like old socks and little fishy for some reason and I am not sure what is causing this, They eat very very well, active, walking, float/swimming and always following me to see if I have food for them or not and they always look like they're hungry looking for food. I know for fact that I feed them enough because their bellies look as thick as their heads.

Also the weird behaviour that I have also noticed was that they use their tails to lift their bodies up to jump.. but they don`t go up a lot, they just,, jump up and down against the wall and they look like they are trying to swim through the glass I don't know why,,

Please help And I thank you very much for taking time reading this.

 

[Klakasharkie]

Has the wildtype been eating normally? What do you feed them?

 

[Huskar]

Has the wildtype been eating normally? What do you feed them?

Yeap! The wild type is the one that eats most of the food and he/she eats very very well and it's fatter than leucistic, right now I feed them frozen blood worms, I thaw it before feeding them and use Turkey baster and put them in the bowl so that they don't eat a lot of the sand with it.

 

[Klakasharkie]

I'd say that normally, this is just what a lotl looks like when it has a lot of food it hasn't swallowed still in its mouth, but if it's been like that for a while it definitely isn't normal. He may have something stuck in there? Maybe a more experienced lotl keeper knows something about this.. But I don't think it's normal growth, I can tell you that now