Help! Injured axolotl!!!

[santiagcarcal]

Hi guys this is my first post here, so I hope you guys can help me. So I own two axolotls, and I have them for about 10 or 11 months now. A day ago, i woke up to find my wild type axie with some sort of injury on its face. It looked like some skin was hanging out or something, anyways, a moment later the hanging skin got back to its place. One day later, it looks like some sort of white spot, I believe it is some sort of scaring tissue. I'd like to know what could I do to help accelerate the scaring process, and keep it from infections.
I've heard about salt baths, but aquarium salt is quite difficult (if not impossible) to find in my country, I'd like to know if table salt is a safe alternative.

 

[FX1C]

Keeping the water cool & making sure it's fresh will help recovery. It looks like it may have bumped nose on something, feel the edges of any hides or filters air stones to see if anything feels sharp. It looks like it's healing well on it's own so far.

Keep an eye on him for now - I don't think you'd need salt baths at this stage - but have a read of the salt bath guide which is a sticky topic in the sick axolotl section.

Others hopefully will add to this with their thoughts / experiences to reassure you.

Keep us updated



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[Minniechild]

What you're looking for is a salt that doesn't have potassium iodate/ say iodised salt in the ingredients or anywhere on the package. Far cheaper, and works quite well. At the moment, I'd be watching it to make sure it doesn't become fuzzy. At that point, you have a fungal infection and you'll definitely need to conduct salt baths to clear it up.

I'd also like to raise a point about your substrate- whilst it is pretty, there's a pretty high chance that one of your darlings may swallow one of those stones- anything that isn't double the size of their head is a risk, unfortunately. Something like play sand, silica sand, slate tiles or even a bare bottom would be better for the long-term health of your babies (and far easier for you to clean!)

 

[Morrison]

I agree with Minniechild on both points.