Start of treatment on Wednesday evening: Baytril for an axolotl of 220 grams. Orally, 0.1 ml for 10 days. During treatment, optimal oxygenation is useful with the antibiotic which tends to stifle this exchange (skin / water). The next day the loulou almost completely deflated, apart from his two hind legs, but the transformation is spectacular! Its blisters having broken I was not able to inflict a salt bath on it to restore the osmotic exchange (and therefore promote oxygenation) but as the wounds begin to fungus I put it in a permanent blue bath.

Is the concern being stopped? As specified by the veterinarian, ascites can have multiple causes: renal, cardiac, infectious). Since the antibiotic treatment is having an effect, it is very possible that it is a bacterial infection, the other axolotls have no symptoms and are doing very well, but maybe he was a healthy carrier of something or was deficient, it still remains a mystery.