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hi
i haven't been having much luck with my axies. i don't know what i'm doing wrong!! i'm fine with all my other fish, they all do perfectly but the axies just don't seem to want to work with me.
so i had 3 axies in this 3ft tank... sand substrate with some large rocks and quite a few plants (50% fake, 50% real)
1 axie got a problem with its leg, covered in fungus. i had him in the fridge for quite a while. the fungus eventually got the better of him and he died in the fridge after a really long time of treating him and salt baths etc.
the other two, one day, just stopped eating. it was in the coldest part of winter, so i thought that maybe their metabolism had slowed down. it was also weird that it was both of them, not just one. one was eating more than the other one though.
i figured it's okay - axies can go for ages without food, so i'll keep offering them food every day and hopefully they'll take it. one of the axies started taking the food every 3rd day or so, but wasn't interested the rest of the time. i set up a feeding station but the food never got eaten and so i always had to just remove it. the other axie, being the newest leucistic, just wouldn't eat. when i got them they (esp. the leucistic) were VERY fat. the other axie died last night, looking very thin. now my leucistic looks like it might be next. he's reeeeally skinny. like, really. i can't get a pic but if i could you'd all be horrified and think i was a terrible owner but he honestly won't take the food!!
he's just lying at the bottom of the tank, and has been for the past few days. i know he's alive because he's moving, but not much. the water is like 15C and it's all clean and i tested it and it's fine.
can anyone help? i thought of the fridge but that just will make him want to eat even less. he's gone ages without food and he just won't take it.
i've tried axolotl pellets, meal worms, earthworms and bloodworms.
any ideas? he's my last axie and i don't want to have to give up but he's so sick looking.
i haven't been having much luck with my axies. i don't know what i'm doing wrong!! i'm fine with all my other fish, they all do perfectly but the axies just don't seem to want to work with me.
so i had 3 axies in this 3ft tank... sand substrate with some large rocks and quite a few plants (50% fake, 50% real)
1 axie got a problem with its leg, covered in fungus. i had him in the fridge for quite a while. the fungus eventually got the better of him and he died in the fridge after a really long time of treating him and salt baths etc.
the other two, one day, just stopped eating. it was in the coldest part of winter, so i thought that maybe their metabolism had slowed down. it was also weird that it was both of them, not just one. one was eating more than the other one though.
i figured it's okay - axies can go for ages without food, so i'll keep offering them food every day and hopefully they'll take it. one of the axies started taking the food every 3rd day or so, but wasn't interested the rest of the time. i set up a feeding station but the food never got eaten and so i always had to just remove it. the other axie, being the newest leucistic, just wouldn't eat. when i got them they (esp. the leucistic) were VERY fat. the other axie died last night, looking very thin. now my leucistic looks like it might be next. he's reeeeally skinny. like, really. i can't get a pic but if i could you'd all be horrified and think i was a terrible owner but he honestly won't take the food!!
he's just lying at the bottom of the tank, and has been for the past few days. i know he's alive because he's moving, but not much. the water is like 15C and it's all clean and i tested it and it's fine.
can anyone help? i thought of the fridge but that just will make him want to eat even less. he's gone ages without food and he just won't take it.
i've tried axolotl pellets, meal worms, earthworms and bloodworms.
any ideas? he's my last axie and i don't want to have to give up but he's so sick looking.