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Illness/Sickness: Immature axie after birth advice?

Egglebear

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hello guys hope all is well ur end.
basically i think my axolotls are roughly about a year old maybe less, and on febuary 24th this year they gave birth to quite a healthy looking batch of eggs, i have my concerns though.
i have seperated my two axies into their own good sized tanks. (they have taken over my room now lol) although i have left some eggs in the female's tank to reabsorb the nuitreints she seems more intrested in eating her worms so i' m feeding her regulary to keep up her stregnth. i have put the majority of the eggs into its own small tank to raise as i can't bring myself to let them all die. i feel really stupid that i let this happen in the first place:(
i am just wondering now if theres anything i can do to help my female recover as she is so young, i read that the recommended breeding age is at least 18 months. she is eating well but isn't very active and i was just wondering if this is the cause of her gills being a little lack lustre, or could it be anything else?
they don't look really bad but i don't want to let them get worse or dissapear all together.
i look forward to hearing your thoughts
Emilie x
 

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hello guys hope all is well ur end.
basically i think my axolotls are roughly about a year old maybe less, and on febuary 24th this year they gave birth to quite a healthy looking batch of eggs, i have my concerns though.
i have seperated my two axies into their own good sized tanks. (they have taken over my room now lol) although i have left some eggs in the female's tank to reabsorb the nuitreints she seems more intrested in eating her worms so i' m feeding her regulary to keep up her stregnth. i have put the majority of the eggs into its own small tank to raise as i can't bring myself to let them all die. i feel really stupid that i let this happen in the first place:(
i am just wondering now if theres anything i can do to help my female recover as she is so young, i read that the recommended breeding age is at least 18 months. she is eating well but isn't very active and i was just wondering if this is the cause of her gills being a little lack lustre, or could it be anything else?
they don't look really bad but i don't want to let them get worse or dissapear all together.
i look forward to hearing your thoughts
Emilie x
It sounds like your doing the right thing seperating her and feeding her alot. I recomend that you don't put her in with the male axolotl to breed to soon I would wait a few months befour you put her back with the male
 

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yeah I'm going to keep them seperated completely now so i have a male tank and a female tank which in time should be occupied by a few when the babies are old enough, seeing as they have nice big tanks each.
 
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