My baby's very sick and i am confused after reading too many threads....hELP ~

[kapo]

<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1>Quoting laura jones on Sunday 18 March 2007 - 22:43 (#POST125035):</font>

do a complete water change and go see what your nearest aquarium center can suggest, there are lots of good fungus treatments that are for fish that might help kill off the diesease, most stuf suitable for fish is good for axies! have you gotten the water levels checked? how is the amonia and nitrites and ph? might be worth a check?<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

Betty, I was hoping you wouldn't clean out your tank completely! You should have got your tankwater tested and if there was an ammonia, nitrite/nitrate prob; then daily partial waterchanges would have sufficed.

Just try and keep him as comfortable in the fridge as can be (ie daily waterchanges) whatever happens. There was something about a specialist vet, that a couple of australian owners mentioned last year that they used, by phone, to try and get some advice/help. It's somewhere in the threads might have something to do with prolapses if you try a search.


Laura.. sorry but I have to disagree regarding fish medicines and aquarium centres/petshops. Where axies are concerned you have to be extremely careful as fish medicines can be toxic to axies. Not all aquarium centres/petshops give the best advice; I have yet to find one who can explain cycling to me (now I know, but at the time I was getting more info prior to owning our axies, they gave all wrong information; especially where food/gravel/health and setting up a tank was concerned.

 

[kate]

<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1>Quoting Kapo on Monday 19 March 2007 - 10:11 (#POST125092):</font>

There was something about a specialist vet, that a couple of australian owners mentioned last year that they used, by phone, to try and get some advice/help. It's somewhere in the threads might have something to do with prolapses if you try a search. <!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

http://www.caudata.org/forum/messages/793/54479.html

"If you are looking for an axolotyl specialist in Australia, there is a vet called Jim Greenwood who gives phone consultations for $20. He owns a vet clinic in Surrey Hills in Melbourne, but now only offers phone consults in the evening, as he stopped practicing vet science full-time and works for the fishing industry during the day. He's spoken at many, many conferences about axolotyls and is considered an authority within Australia on these creatures.

If you want a phone consultation, call Canterbury Vet clinic during the day on 03 9836 6009 and say you wish to organise a phone consult with Jim. You will need a credit card, as you have to pay the $20 there and then and they then organise for him to phone you in the evening. I had phone consultations with him for both of my sick axies and found him very helpful.

Good luck!!

Christina"

 

[kapo]

thanks for passing that on Kate! Couldn't remember when thread was!

 

[kate]

that's ok, i hope he is still doing the consultations.

 

[betty]

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my poor little axie died this morning. i buried him in my pot plant...i feel bad that i couldnt look after him properly.
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thanks for all ur advice and support. i got my tank water tested at a pet shop today, all clear. i wont consider geting another axie too soon cuz i still need to know more abut caring for them. u guys r really great and helpful

especially KAPO, special thanks to u~

i will read more till i am ready to have another axie home~

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betty

 

[kate]

oh Betty, I'm so sorry. and you shouldn't be so hard on yourself, it's really not your fault.

 

[row]

Betty, so sorry to hear your baby didn't survive!

. At least he is not suffering anymore, and the stress you must have been suffering too!
I agree with Kate - don't beat yourself up, you did everything you could. You cared for him and loved him, and gave him a lovely burial from the sounds of it. I am beginning to see that sometimes these things just happen.

Thinking of you....

 

[paul-mark]

Betty,

So sorry to hear that your axie died. These things happen and it may be that s/he wasn't a healthy axie to begin with. I doubt it has *anything* to do with you as the owner as you'd only had him/her for a couple of weeks. It's been the same with me and toads. I've had two, and yet after a year they die. I take very good care of all my animals, but sometimes, it's just nature taking its course. Also, this experience has made it easier for you to take care of a new axie in the future!

I got my two axies at the beginning of February and I'd read up about them, but I was (and I still am) very worried about taking care of them properly. It's all a learning experience, so don't beat yourself up about it. Could be many factors and I doubt your caring for him/her is one of them.

Would it be possible for you to get a baby one? That way you could raise him/her without worry as such (if that's possible). I always find raising baby animals easier as adult/sub-adults already have an established life and as most are creatures of habit, stress of a new environment/adult may be fatal etc...