Illness/Sickness: Female huge bleeding and floating

[Wikara]

Hello everyone, I'm new in this forum and I hope you all can help me. I have two adult leucistic Axolotl, a male and a female, they live in a 100 LT tank without gravel and sand. I've had them since last year. Last week my boyfriend and I noticed the female's belly was very red, almost violet, it looked like a big burning/bruise. We changed some of the water in the tank as we usually do, and the female started bleeding from the right gill. She bled so much that we thought her intestine had ruptured and we thought she was gone. Surprisingly she was still alive, so we managed to put her immediatly in the fridge in a small tank and separate her from the male. (He was and still is totally fine and very healty). She bled two more times and started acting letargic and floating on the surface. She became very pale, almost white (i think from all the blood she has lost..) and stopped eating. Now she is still pale but moving normally and swimming, but as I take her out of the fridge she starts floating almost immediatly and tries so hard to sink to the bottom of the small tank where she is living now. She still has'nt eaten and has'nt pooped. Other than that now she looks quite "normal", still a little pale but in good shape (she's always been quite fat). Can anybody help me? We've been changing her water daily and we've added an antimicotic called Dessamor. Sorry for the post's lenght but it's a long and bizzarre story, i hope you can help me and my poor girl! We've been also testing her water and the only wrong parameter was the PH wich was a little too high.. Again thank everyone who will ready!

 

[wolfen]

what are the water levels/parameters ie.. temperature, ph, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, if possible kh and gh.
STOP using Dessamor as one of the ingredients is copper sulphate which is very bad and toxic to axolotls.
for floating tub in shallow water (shallow enough that feet touch ground), water needs to be cold but not too cold ie.. 10°c - 15°c, change water daily using water that is dechlorinated first.
100 litres is a bit on the small side for 2 axolotls which can cause high nitrogen compound levels, change 50% weekly.
using 2g/l non iodised salt in the tank and any water containing an axolotl, 50% holtfreters + 0.1g/l magnesium sulphate would be better but need to know temperature, ph, kh, gh, first.
methyline blue + acriflavine (half fish dose) can be used for medicative and recovery (do not use in tank).

 

[Slijek]

Another thought...how old is your axolotl? Because they are exclusively carnivorous, that is very hard on their kidneys (also a problem for cats, btw). As they get older, their kidneys, which have been dealing with a heavy load of amines for years, have a harder and harder time regulating their internal osmolarity. This just happened to my 15 and 16 year old axolotls. One way to help would be to increase the osmolarity of their water. Others on this forum would be more knowledgeable than me about what ions and concentrations to use. What I did was not clean their tank as often and let the filter build up a good biological coating to handle the nitrogen. That seemed to help with bloating.