Sapien
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My white axxie Zuma might have a skin problem I'm not too sure...
She didn't seem to be eating much at all, couldn't get her to eat pellets or blood worm.
I threw some small feeder fish in there and she still didn't seem to be eating yet her weight was still the same. Since then I have learned that she likes it when I break the flesh of a feeder fish and then wiggle it infront of her nose. She's eaten a few the other day and seems happy.
But I was fixing the rain tube that I made out of an old syphon hose. While doing so I had my hand in the water a little and she swam by, just brushing my skin, when I was wiping the water off I noticed my hand was rough and sticky where she had touched me...I wasn't sure if it was her or if I had missed a spot while washing my hands before I entered the water. I lightly touched her again and then rubbed my fingers together and it was the same rough sticky feeling...
Question: Is this normal or is she not well?
I can touch Orion (my darker smaller axxie) and this doesn't happen...
Oh And I think Zuma has come into sexual maturity, her toes are dark black and her cloacal region is a little standing out, but I've been told she's too small still to have reached it? She's only about 16cms (6.5 inches)
She didn't seem to be eating much at all, couldn't get her to eat pellets or blood worm.
I threw some small feeder fish in there and she still didn't seem to be eating yet her weight was still the same. Since then I have learned that she likes it when I break the flesh of a feeder fish and then wiggle it infront of her nose. She's eaten a few the other day and seems happy.
But I was fixing the rain tube that I made out of an old syphon hose. While doing so I had my hand in the water a little and she swam by, just brushing my skin, when I was wiping the water off I noticed my hand was rough and sticky where she had touched me...I wasn't sure if it was her or if I had missed a spot while washing my hands before I entered the water. I lightly touched her again and then rubbed my fingers together and it was the same rough sticky feeling...
Question: Is this normal or is she not well?
I can touch Orion (my darker smaller axxie) and this doesn't happen...
Oh And I think Zuma has come into sexual maturity, her toes are dark black and her cloacal region is a little standing out, but I've been told she's too small still to have reached it? She's only about 16cms (6.5 inches)