Kerry1968
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Hi,
My female axolotl Lottie has lost all her gill filaments overnight!
Recently she has had quite a stressful time, she laid her second batch of eggs only four weeks after the first. I moved her to a separate tank, which I was cycling, to stop a repeat of her 'escaping' into the male Lexi's side of the tank. This tank has a more powerful filter and even though I tried to calm the outflow by putting some wood in the way, it appears that all this has proved too much for her.
It looks as though she has some fungus under what is left of her gills, so I have started to salt bath her. As she seemed so stressed in the other tank I have returned her to the original tank with Lexi and lowered the water level a little so that she can't get over the divider (Still plenty of water in the tank and it's a four footer, obviously I keep an eye on the water quality, but no problems up to now). The tank is around 16 degrees at the moment, so it's quite cold, do you think I should still put her in the fridge along with the salt baths? I don't want to stress her more by another change of scenery!
I'm so worried about my baby, it's the first time either of them has been ill. If anyone has any advice or experience with this very sudden gill loss I'd love to hear how they dealt with it and how quickly their axie recovered. Thank you.
My female axolotl Lottie has lost all her gill filaments overnight!
Recently she has had quite a stressful time, she laid her second batch of eggs only four weeks after the first. I moved her to a separate tank, which I was cycling, to stop a repeat of her 'escaping' into the male Lexi's side of the tank. This tank has a more powerful filter and even though I tried to calm the outflow by putting some wood in the way, it appears that all this has proved too much for her.
It looks as though she has some fungus under what is left of her gills, so I have started to salt bath her. As she seemed so stressed in the other tank I have returned her to the original tank with Lexi and lowered the water level a little so that she can't get over the divider (Still plenty of water in the tank and it's a four footer, obviously I keep an eye on the water quality, but no problems up to now). The tank is around 16 degrees at the moment, so it's quite cold, do you think I should still put her in the fridge along with the salt baths? I don't want to stress her more by another change of scenery!
I'm so worried about my baby, it's the first time either of them has been ill. If anyone has any advice or experience with this very sudden gill loss I'd love to hear how they dealt with it and how quickly their axie recovered. Thank you.
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