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Hi,
I don't post here often but I'm really concerned about our axolotls. We recently moved, and due to a cycle crash and that chaos, our axolotls have been fridged for the last five days. Though they get daily water changes with water of the same temperature (42) and two of the three eat regularly, all three are loosing their gills at an alarming rate. The two males are down to maybe a third of their original length; the female has a quarter, optimistically.
These were healthy animals before we moved, even thriving. Could the new water be causing this? We now live in a historic building, would old pipes let loose more metals? Our liquid test kit reads normally--no elevated nitrates or nitrites, minimal ammonia immediately before water changes. Do we need to find an RO water source? And how do we help our short-gilled lotls recover?
I don't post here often but I'm really concerned about our axolotls. We recently moved, and due to a cycle crash and that chaos, our axolotls have been fridged for the last five days. Though they get daily water changes with water of the same temperature (42) and two of the three eat regularly, all three are loosing their gills at an alarming rate. The two males are down to maybe a third of their original length; the female has a quarter, optimistically.
These were healthy animals before we moved, even thriving. Could the new water be causing this? We now live in a historic building, would old pipes let loose more metals? Our liquid test kit reads normally--no elevated nitrates or nitrites, minimal ammonia immediately before water changes. Do we need to find an RO water source? And how do we help our short-gilled lotls recover?
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