corbinsg
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Hi!
I’m looking for some support in an axolotl I rescued. She’s got pretty severe gill degeneration, but some of her frilling is coming back. She also has some skin discoloration/burns that I think are water quality related. She was floating in the tank when we picked her up, and we fridged her for two days and she was passing a lot of waste. When we transferred her into her new tank today she immediately began floating nearly vertically and seems to really be struggling to stay horizontal unless something is holding specifically her tail down. Her water parameters are fine. I’ve been doing daily water checks to ensure it isn’t that. I’m wondering if I should try fridging her again? She hasn’t eaten anything, and her previous owner said she hadn’t eaten anything in awhile, and they gave her pellets as her main source of food. They said she turned her nose up at earthworms.
The substrate they had was fine sand with nothing in the tank she couldve swallowed, and we have sand as her substrate now. I’m just worried about her, she doesn’t seem comfortable and is moving around quite a lot I think to find a spot where her bum isn’t floating.
She’s also gasped for air at the top of the tank at least three times in the past 30 minutes. We have a sponge filter that bubbles a bit.
She’s a full grown adult - about 7 years old.
Any advice is helpful!
I’m looking for some support in an axolotl I rescued. She’s got pretty severe gill degeneration, but some of her frilling is coming back. She also has some skin discoloration/burns that I think are water quality related. She was floating in the tank when we picked her up, and we fridged her for two days and she was passing a lot of waste. When we transferred her into her new tank today she immediately began floating nearly vertically and seems to really be struggling to stay horizontal unless something is holding specifically her tail down. Her water parameters are fine. I’ve been doing daily water checks to ensure it isn’t that. I’m wondering if I should try fridging her again? She hasn’t eaten anything, and her previous owner said she hadn’t eaten anything in awhile, and they gave her pellets as her main source of food. They said she turned her nose up at earthworms.
The substrate they had was fine sand with nothing in the tank she couldve swallowed, and we have sand as her substrate now. I’m just worried about her, she doesn’t seem comfortable and is moving around quite a lot I think to find a spot where her bum isn’t floating.
She’s also gasped for air at the top of the tank at least three times in the past 30 minutes. We have a sponge filter that bubbles a bit.
She’s a full grown adult - about 7 years old.
Any advice is helpful!