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Hi guys!
I am after some reassurance. 😞
I have my axolotl for 12 days and he hasn’t eaten since he arrived. I offered earthworms, pellets and frozen blood worms.
At first I thought it could be stress from the move, then fungus, but 2 days ago I noticed a lump on his side.
He was also pooing green then a brown slime and now not pooing at all for a few days. After a lot of reading, I put him on the fridge (6C) yesterday and he hasn’t done poos yet.
At the aquarium shop he was kept in a small aquarium with lots of other axies, with small sharp gravels as substrate 😬
I think he swallowed the gravel. Is there anything else I could do? I found an exotic animals vet in Brisbane. But I can’t go yet with the current covid border restrictios where I live. (I live in Australia)
Has anyone gone through something similar with a happy ending?
The first photo below is when he first arrived and the second in the fridgng container yesterday.
Thank you.
 

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Hi there. Following some advice in other threads here, I touched the lump and it is soft!!! That makes me even more worried, because problably it is not a rock! He is in the fridge and seems alright but it is not comfortable at all to have a pet in the fridge. I do t know if it is comfortable for him 😔 and he hasn’t eaten either. 😢
Some light please!
 
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