What The ?

ok
b4 i found this great site i brought my axies knowing bugger all about them after being told they were easy to look after by the aquarium bloke..
so i put them into an uncycled tank, then found out it was a no no. so have been doing water changes of about 25-30% every day "2 axies in there" the only chemical i use in there is stress coat
i clean all the poop and food out and have an internal filter
ph= 7.4 nitrite= 0 nitrate=0 but ammonia is .75
is this ok ? the tank has now been established for about 3 weeks

the thing that baffles me is, my new tank that i decided to do properly and cycle for approx 30days it's now on day 8 of cycling with out a water change "+ have 4 comets in there" and been putting axie poo in there
ph=7.4 nitrite= 0 nitrate= 0 Ammonia 0
there is a lot better filter on my new tank and i'm using carbon @ the bottom and ceramic cylinders @ the top in my filter 5 of the six baskets are full of media
going by that wouldn't my axies be better off in my new tank ? as the levels look perfect to me ?
or will i get a sudden spike of ammonia b4 it finishes ?

The tank your cycling now probably just is a little slow, it happens, just like with me. Your axies probably wouldn't be better because you willl eventually see a spike in ammonia and nitrite.

Don't use stress coat! U will kill them. It makes a slime over their skin and cuases problems.

Maybe I was a little over the top. But it can do bodly harm to them. My science teacher owns a petshope and he was using this chemical and it killed all of his newts, It is good for fish and fish alone, not newts

~JOHN

No, John thats incorrect, as many people on this site recommend using stress coat, it helps a lot. It heals the slime covering on them if they've been handled and is a dechlorinator (i think).

John, the Axolotl Colony uses Stress Coat for Axolotls. They are the ones who recommend the product.

I highly recommend that the product be used, either this or Amqual+, but Stress Coat is better because it has Aloe in it which helps Axolotls skin to heal and also protects it.

I think your Biology teacher might have been using a different product, or it just happened that he was using the product and something else killed the newts.

Stress coat is the one to go with.

thx guys
also read lots of posts here recomending stress coat

i have another question ?
do i clean the filter in my cycling tank with axies in it ?

best not to until its completly finished the reason being your filters can hold enough bacteria to keep a tank right without any substrate etc. it will hold alot of the bacteria which will be helping in your cycling

k thx