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leighton
Guest
As a couple of you will know from the chat last night (and many thanks for your patience and advice), our female (Peely) went into cloacal prolapse last night. We're probably lucky in that it wasn't (after some initial doubt) swollen, and was transparent, without any obvious blood beyond the vessels that were running through it.
We transferred her to a small quarantining tank with some tank water, and kept her in the fridge overnight (to avoid bacterial growth, and to slow her metabolism) with no filtration or substrate.
The prolapse hadn't improved or worsened this morning, so we looked for a vet in the area who could advise, and happily enough found one. They consulted with a specialist in Edinburgh, who advised pushing the prolapse back in with cotton buds (Q-tips) and KY jelly, then application of a purse-string suture. Three-quarters of the prolapse was replaced by the vet before we felt that Peely had been out of the water for long enough, and the suture was not put in place, erring on the side of caution through inexperience with thin axolotl skin.
We have antibiotics to administer, and are now monitoring her for two days; if the prolapse doesn't retract further of its own accord, we have a referral to the specialist. We'll let you know how we get on.
We transferred her to a small quarantining tank with some tank water, and kept her in the fridge overnight (to avoid bacterial growth, and to slow her metabolism) with no filtration or substrate.
The prolapse hadn't improved or worsened this morning, so we looked for a vet in the area who could advise, and happily enough found one. They consulted with a specialist in Edinburgh, who advised pushing the prolapse back in with cotton buds (Q-tips) and KY jelly, then application of a purse-string suture. Three-quarters of the prolapse was replaced by the vet before we felt that Peely had been out of the water for long enough, and the suture was not put in place, erring on the side of caution through inexperience with thin axolotl skin.
We have antibiotics to administer, and are now monitoring her for two days; if the prolapse doesn't retract further of its own accord, we have a referral to the specialist. We'll let you know how we get on.