Hi All,
I am hoping I can find out why my Axolotl died. I have been reading lots of information on here for a while and only just introduced myself 2 days ago. Unfortunately my Axolotl died this morning.
The worst thing is not knowing why. I only had her for 3 months and bought her from the local pet shop. I live in the NSW Snow Mountains so heat is rarely an issue. She stopped eating about 2 maybe 3 weeks ago. I was feeding her frozen bloodworms only. she wouldn't take pellets at all and I hadn't yet tried anything else.
I was told by the pet shop that pebbles were ok....I learnt on here they are most certainly not ok. I ended up fridging my Axie (Beelzebub Bella) in the hope of prolonging her life and also in the hope that if she had ingested a pebble she would pass it. I then removed all the pebbles from her tank and changed the water. I kept her in for 3 days and she had a bowel movement which I thought was a good sign. There were no pebbles present. I knew I had to get food into her and that she wouldn't eat while fridged. So after the positive bowel movement I transferred her back to her tank - i floated her container in the tank until the water temp adjusted.
After I put her back into the tank she seemed panicked. She kept swimming to the surface and it was like she was trying to get out.....I was hoping she would settle down and she did sometimes but was like a yoyo; calm then panicked. I didn't want to take her back out again so soon so let her go for awhile....I also tried to feed her with no luck. She died roughly 12 hours after transferring her from fridge to tank.
I also need to add that the last time I fed her she seemed to almost gag when taking the food. She swallowed but seemed to struggle; after that she refused to eat again.
I spoke to the pet shop staff and told them about the pebbles ( which i don't think they took any notice of) one of them told me that blood worms can have little spikes on the end of them that can possibly get caught in their throats like a fish bone would in a human........
The tank was filtered and I changed 2/3 of the water once a fortnight..
Sorry for the extremely long winded post - hope someone might shed some light on where I may have gone wrong as I would like to try again but am a little nervous now.
Cheers!!
I am hoping I can find out why my Axolotl died. I have been reading lots of information on here for a while and only just introduced myself 2 days ago. Unfortunately my Axolotl died this morning.
The worst thing is not knowing why. I only had her for 3 months and bought her from the local pet shop. I live in the NSW Snow Mountains so heat is rarely an issue. She stopped eating about 2 maybe 3 weeks ago. I was feeding her frozen bloodworms only. she wouldn't take pellets at all and I hadn't yet tried anything else.
I was told by the pet shop that pebbles were ok....I learnt on here they are most certainly not ok. I ended up fridging my Axie (Beelzebub Bella) in the hope of prolonging her life and also in the hope that if she had ingested a pebble she would pass it. I then removed all the pebbles from her tank and changed the water. I kept her in for 3 days and she had a bowel movement which I thought was a good sign. There were no pebbles present. I knew I had to get food into her and that she wouldn't eat while fridged. So after the positive bowel movement I transferred her back to her tank - i floated her container in the tank until the water temp adjusted.
After I put her back into the tank she seemed panicked. She kept swimming to the surface and it was like she was trying to get out.....I was hoping she would settle down and she did sometimes but was like a yoyo; calm then panicked. I didn't want to take her back out again so soon so let her go for awhile....I also tried to feed her with no luck. She died roughly 12 hours after transferring her from fridge to tank.
I also need to add that the last time I fed her she seemed to almost gag when taking the food. She swallowed but seemed to struggle; after that she refused to eat again.
I spoke to the pet shop staff and told them about the pebbles ( which i don't think they took any notice of) one of them told me that blood worms can have little spikes on the end of them that can possibly get caught in their throats like a fish bone would in a human........
The tank was filtered and I changed 2/3 of the water once a fortnight..
Sorry for the extremely long winded post - hope someone might shed some light on where I may have gone wrong as I would like to try again but am a little nervous now.
Cheers!!