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So this morning my mom noticed that Marlon (my axolotl) had this huge bubble coming out of his butt. She showed me after dinner since I'm on a nocturnal sleeping schedule and I looked it up and I'm guessing that this is a prolapsed cloaca?
(sorry for the flash, didn't mean to have that on)
I will admit that I haven't been keeping up with feeding him as I should because of a busy spring semester of uni, but now that I'm on break I can give him more attention. I fed him almost every week until he wouldn't eat anymore, though there were some skipped weeks. I also noticed that he has been eating the plants, anubias nana, which he passed two weeks ago but may have eaten more which could have caused this prolapse.
I tested his water and everything seems alright:
no ammonia or nitrites
PH was at around 7.4-7.5
temps at 20 Celsius but I believe my cheap thermometer is lying because the other smaller tank is at 15 but I set up the fan above the tank
nitrate test was hard to tell if it was at 40 or 80 PPM so I changed the water and have water ready for another change tomorrow.
So now I'm just sitting here, wondering what to do. He didn't want to eat today, I did what I could and just covered his tank up so he could rest in the dark. I read that I should probably take him to a vet right away, but I live in Japan and don't know any vets who specialize in amphibians near me. We would probably have to take a 3 hour drive up to Tokyo.
Another thing: I'm actually unsure about my axolotl's sex. His cloaca is like... in between swollen like a male and not like a female so we just don't know. Though if Marlon is actually female then I do understand that she is very thin.
(Images attached below in case the others don't work)
(sorry for the flash, didn't mean to have that on)
I will admit that I haven't been keeping up with feeding him as I should because of a busy spring semester of uni, but now that I'm on break I can give him more attention. I fed him almost every week until he wouldn't eat anymore, though there were some skipped weeks. I also noticed that he has been eating the plants, anubias nana, which he passed two weeks ago but may have eaten more which could have caused this prolapse.
I tested his water and everything seems alright:
no ammonia or nitrites
PH was at around 7.4-7.5
temps at 20 Celsius but I believe my cheap thermometer is lying because the other smaller tank is at 15 but I set up the fan above the tank
nitrate test was hard to tell if it was at 40 or 80 PPM so I changed the water and have water ready for another change tomorrow.
So now I'm just sitting here, wondering what to do. He didn't want to eat today, I did what I could and just covered his tank up so he could rest in the dark. I read that I should probably take him to a vet right away, but I live in Japan and don't know any vets who specialize in amphibians near me. We would probably have to take a 3 hour drive up to Tokyo.
Another thing: I'm actually unsure about my axolotl's sex. His cloaca is like... in between swollen like a male and not like a female so we just don't know. Though if Marlon is actually female then I do understand that she is very thin.
(Images attached below in case the others don't work)
