Desperate advice needed!!!!

[katrina]

Yes she is red in the face, but she just seems to stay like that. When i first put her in the fridge and she went a little bit red, i thought it was just the soreness of the fungus but it has gotten to the stage of the redness in the picture and just stayed like that. I have had her for about a month and a half to 2 months. Shes had a rough time, because she was bought with fungus. My dad bought another axolotl at the same time and that one died soon after as it had fungus as well. I wasn't able to clean the tank out for a couple of days, as i wasnt home. I did a full clean out, put her back in then put the fungus cure in and it seemed to work. Then about 1-2 weeks later, she had it back again, so i repeated putting the fungus cure in her water. This is when it didn't work and she lost her frilly things in a matter of days. This got me really worried and thats when i joined up to get help. So exactly what should i do. I read that i can use the 'Mercurochrome' or i can buy 'Nitrofura-G'. SO i was just wondering which one you guys would choose if you were in my situation. I was thinking about getting the 'Nitrofura'. But im not too sure. I really dont want her to die. I want her to get better again. So what should i do? Use one of the medications while she's still in the fridge or use it while she's in the tank? Im so confused, i just dont know what to do.

 

[anne-marie]

Tricky. I am just going to add here that I have had white axolotls in the fridge before, and they didn't go red at all. Sorry.

Looking at the pic, I would say the red bit has to do with whatever is wrong with the mouth as that is where its concentrated. Poor thing.

(Message edited by waltona on June 06, 2005)

 

[cynthia]

Katrina - Furan-2 should work as well and it is listed as safe for axolotls. If you can buy it there.

At this point I would give them all a shot one at a time. If something does not appear to help her in a few days I would move to the next.

Furan - 2 Contains two furan compounds to combat a wide variety of gram-positive & gram-negative bacterial diseases, including gill disease, mouth fungus, furunculosis (aeromonas), black molly disease (columnaris), fin & tail rot and dropsy.

 

[katrina]

She's growing back her frilly things!!!!! im soo happy and excited!! she still has the white stuff on them but if there growing back that can only be a good thing (im pritty sure). I have given her any medication and she is slowly showing improvement. So i think im just going to keep up with the salt baths and see how she goes. thanks guys sooo muchh!!!

 

[nathan]

can you keep us up to date with her progress and good luck

 

[cynthia]

What about her face? is it healing? If it is still really red I would try some medication (axolotl safe medication). She was so sick at the start of this I worry the salt will not be able to clear the infection in her face.