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I have two juvie axolotls, they are about 7cm in length now and as hungry as a horse, always waiting for food - I feed them frozen bloodworms only at the moment, when I was feeding them last night I noticed one has a little pocket of air inside it (you can see inside of them, food, heart etc) is this something that could become a problem or has it just tried to eat the food too fast and got a mouth full of air?

I keep them in an tub at the moment as I have a bigger axolotl in my main tank, I plan to add them together when they get bigger, I do 100% water changes every other day as the tank has no filter on it
 
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Maybe he had swallowed some by gulping air at the water surface.
Anyway... Is he 'floating' or just like the others walking around?
I should wait and see if it gets out of itself or if they burp it out somehow (I see my axies burp out air bubbles sometimes, pretty cute)
 
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thanks I knew I had read that thread before but couldn't find it anywhere! I am hoping its just some trapped air, I haven't fed them since yesterday morning - thinking may leave it a day or too and hopefully it will sort itself out! It isn't floating around or staying on the bottom, just acting normally

It may well be a mouthful of air, they eat like hungry hungry hippo's!
 
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hehe yes!! they are hungry beasts :p

I hope it goes well, let us know
 
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