Gothica Lily
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- Angie
Our male seemes to have swallowed a gravel rock. Rayson, if you are reading this, we did extract the gravel as you advised in an earlier thread. I noticed our male has not been eating for several days now. We feed them a Nightcrawler each a day generally, but last 3-4 days he has refused the worms or rather was giving up on them after he had a bit in. I thought he was just being fussy at first, so I cut the worms in smaller parts (i think he are 1 or 2 during the period, but not sure if he spat them out later). When other half was feeding them, I noticed that the male sank to the bottom suspicously fast... Examination revealed the abdomen area looked fuller than normal and it looked like rectoral region (supposedly) contained a firm body. As discussed our gravel size was 12mm and we are scared it has swallowed a rock of smaller size, by the looks and feel of it ( see pictures below). His cloacal region is not swollen.
He struggles to swim up to the surface ( he has to make alot of effort to do that). Please advise... We are worried sick. Didn't sleep most of last night (removed gravel, cleaned tank of any waste accumulated in the gravel).
Curious among Sad: Since we removed gravel last night, He has been pushing the female around alot ( yeah, courting at the time when he's got a rock inside...). We noticed some things that looked like spermtaphores.
Please advise as to what were have on our hands here.. what to do and if there is a way to determine if it could possibly be a rock or he is just struggling to get rid of some hard waste?? We did not fridge him yet, as were scared it may be in the animals stomack and be too beg for it's bowels and could cause damage.
We are upset and we called the vets in Victoria on the list that we looked up on Caudata (every one of them is not immediately available,- holidays or away).
We'll be watching the thread closely for your advice...
Thanks for your assistance in advance,
Angie