Hi!
I recently bought an axolotl. She was doing just fine the first days, she ate the food she was given, she swam around quite a lot, being quite curious actually. She seemed so happy and healthy!
I would like to mention that this is my first axolotl, therefore I've got pretty much no experience what so ever. Althought I've done quite a lot of reading.
However, the other day, my boyfriend was gonna feed her bloodworms. We usually just leave the bloodworms for her to eat, but he wanted to try to feed it by hand. He grabbed a quite large piece of bloodworms stuck together, and since we're not experienced at all, she didnt reacted the way we expected. She rapidly went for all of it! We were both shocked! She at it all in one piece! Since then she hasn't been feeling very well.. She has been a lot less active, she had such an appetite before, now she doesn't even touch the food.
In fact she seemed quite fat, but today, when we went to check her out, the tank was full of bloodworms! I had no idea what happened, but it seems as she might have vommit it all out? I was not there to see what actually happened so I'm quite scared. She seems thinner now, but still does not eat and is not active at all. I've seen living signs though, she has been moving her gills and slight react when we clean the tank. Could she be constipated?
If that's not enough, I believe she has a air bubble in her stomach, I've heard that that is quite common though?
I can see it on the left side of her stomach, it's white, looking like a bubble, and slightly sticking out. Her left part of her body is also almost floating, she's not laying on the side but slightly floating more at that side. Her backleg is right up in the air, aswell as her frontleg is above the sand. She seems to be struggling to walk/swim around because of this too.
I recently bought an axolotl. She was doing just fine the first days, she ate the food she was given, she swam around quite a lot, being quite curious actually. She seemed so happy and healthy!
I would like to mention that this is my first axolotl, therefore I've got pretty much no experience what so ever. Althought I've done quite a lot of reading.
However, the other day, my boyfriend was gonna feed her bloodworms. We usually just leave the bloodworms for her to eat, but he wanted to try to feed it by hand. He grabbed a quite large piece of bloodworms stuck together, and since we're not experienced at all, she didnt reacted the way we expected. She rapidly went for all of it! We were both shocked! She at it all in one piece! Since then she hasn't been feeling very well.. She has been a lot less active, she had such an appetite before, now she doesn't even touch the food.
In fact she seemed quite fat, but today, when we went to check her out, the tank was full of bloodworms! I had no idea what happened, but it seems as she might have vommit it all out? I was not there to see what actually happened so I'm quite scared. She seems thinner now, but still does not eat and is not active at all. I've seen living signs though, she has been moving her gills and slight react when we clean the tank. Could she be constipated?
If that's not enough, I believe she has a air bubble in her stomach, I've heard that that is quite common though?
I can see it on the left side of her stomach, it's white, looking like a bubble, and slightly sticking out. Her left part of her body is also almost floating, she's not laying on the side but slightly floating more at that side. Her backleg is right up in the air, aswell as her frontleg is above the sand. She seems to be struggling to walk/swim around because of this too.
