Hi everyone!! im sorry if i havent been able to introduce myself in the right way. I apologize for my english, it is not my language plus i am very nervous and sad right now. I had 2 axolotls, a wildtype male and an albino female.
Got them about 1 month ago, not in aquarium, but in a university in mexico city that sells them in order to support the colony. When i got them i had months reading about them, but never heard about cycling tanks, so i did purchased a 90 x 45 x 30 one and it has 10 days cycling.
My male (Falcon) never ate as well as my female (Esile), but doctor said it was fine because males and specially wildtypes have more of a hard time adapting to new places.
Last saturday i saw them a little bit letargic (dont know if thats the word, i mean not alert) so i tested the water and was way high in nitrite (3.3 mg/l) so i took them away with new clean water. i use distillled water and add aquiarium salt (i was told that way), just a little , the few grains that i can hold in my had for every 20 liters of water. Do not use tap water because in my city it is dirty as hell.
The male started eating again and I was worried because he floated, just like he had a bubble in his thoracic spine. The doctor came in yesterday and with a glove checked them out and found them o.k., no inflamatory process, but not eating well, not floating. At night he was floating again so i pushed him down to the bottom of the tank and put his head a little above from the rest of th body and he burped a large bubble and then was fine again. He ate one worm and i saw him happy.
This morning found him dead in the bottom of the tank,, called the doctor (she has a masters in laboratoty animals and was in charge of an axolotl colony a couple of years ago) and she was out of town, and i took my axie to the refrigerator to wait for the doc and see if she can tell what caused his death. The only thing i noticed was that he moved less his gills and then, when he was already dead, his gills and testicles (dot know the word, just behind his back legs) looked red.
I am very very das, cryed all day, but i realize i have to do something about my little girl.
I put her in a plastic container with new water in a very low level so she can be able to stay in the surface without spending energy. hasnt ate for a week, an her gills look very very red, unusual red. The little arterys in her body, the superficial ones look a little red too. Her eyes are cloudy and I dont know what to do. Found this place, I pray someone can help me!!
Thanks to everyone
Got them about 1 month ago, not in aquarium, but in a university in mexico city that sells them in order to support the colony. When i got them i had months reading about them, but never heard about cycling tanks, so i did purchased a 90 x 45 x 30 one and it has 10 days cycling.
My male (Falcon) never ate as well as my female (Esile), but doctor said it was fine because males and specially wildtypes have more of a hard time adapting to new places.
Last saturday i saw them a little bit letargic (dont know if thats the word, i mean not alert) so i tested the water and was way high in nitrite (3.3 mg/l) so i took them away with new clean water. i use distillled water and add aquiarium salt (i was told that way), just a little , the few grains that i can hold in my had for every 20 liters of water. Do not use tap water because in my city it is dirty as hell.
The male started eating again and I was worried because he floated, just like he had a bubble in his thoracic spine. The doctor came in yesterday and with a glove checked them out and found them o.k., no inflamatory process, but not eating well, not floating. At night he was floating again so i pushed him down to the bottom of the tank and put his head a little above from the rest of th body and he burped a large bubble and then was fine again. He ate one worm and i saw him happy.
This morning found him dead in the bottom of the tank,, called the doctor (she has a masters in laboratoty animals and was in charge of an axolotl colony a couple of years ago) and she was out of town, and i took my axie to the refrigerator to wait for the doc and see if she can tell what caused his death. The only thing i noticed was that he moved less his gills and then, when he was already dead, his gills and testicles (dot know the word, just behind his back legs) looked red.
I am very very das, cryed all day, but i realize i have to do something about my little girl.
I put her in a plastic container with new water in a very low level so she can be able to stay in the surface without spending energy. hasnt ate for a week, an her gills look very very red, unusual red. The little arterys in her body, the superficial ones look a little red too. Her eyes are cloudy and I dont know what to do. Found this place, I pray someone can help me!!
Thanks to everyone
