This is kind of a long story so if anything is unclear or if I'm missing something let me know because if it's not here I forgot to include it.
ANYWAY, I'm in the process of cycling my tank so in the mean time I have my ~ 3 month old leucistic axolotl Om Nom (about 2 inches long) in a large Tupperware container till the tank is cycled. While he's in there, I'm changing his water every other day with conditioned tap water which is at 65 deg F at the time I add the water to the container. Om Nom is kept in my bedroom which is also a constant 65 deg F and I leave him in indirect sunlight (enough light for him to see where he's going but never any bright light, he's always kept in the shade). I'm also feeding him on a diet of frozen blood worms and brine shrimp and I feed him every other day. When I change his water, I move him to another Tupperware container that has fresh conditioned water at 65 deg F and then move him in to his larger container after I toss his old water and add fresh conditioned water.
9 days ago, I was changing his water when he unfortunately panicked and jumped out of the container before I scooped him and landed on my carpet (about a 2 foot drop). I scooped him up and put him in fresh conditioned water immediately (don't worry, I tossed out that stupid smaller container he jumped out of. I'm never using that thing again and I'm currently using larger containers with higher walls that he can't jump out of for his holding and changing container). After that, I left him in the dark and turned the temperature in my room down to 55 deg F for the weekend. Two days later, he recovered both his appetite (man does he eat a lot), his color (very bright red gills and slightly pink skin), and his gills look fine (no fibril loss that I can see, very red, and the gills don't look damaged). He's also moving around a lot.
I went to change his water a few hours ago when I noticed two long tubular shaped things attached to the tip of his tail (it's just on his tail, no where else on his body). I took pictures on my phone and I"m in the process of trying to move them over (sorry, new phone) but let me try to describe them: they're a few centimeters long, opaque, and attached quite firmly to his tail (he's swimming around his container a lot happily doing laps). His attitude hasn't changed (he's still eating A LOT (a whole cube of frozen brine shrimp for example within 2 minutes), his gills and tone looks fantastic, and he still pauses to look up at me when I check in on him) but I'm really concerned that this might be some kind of fungus or anchorworm. I'm really considering giving him a salt bath for a few days just to be sure but I"m not sure if that's a good idea or not.
I'm going to talk to my husband when he wakes up in the morning so I can figure out how to upload these pictures on here so you all can help. If there's anything that I accidentally left out let me know so I can help you help Om.
P.S: one last thing in case someone asks: my tap water has all the right levels (pH: 7, ammonia: 0, nitrite: 0, nitrate: 0). I tested it with API freshwater master test kit drops when I moved in to this place a few months ago. Thanks!
ANYWAY, I'm in the process of cycling my tank so in the mean time I have my ~ 3 month old leucistic axolotl Om Nom (about 2 inches long) in a large Tupperware container till the tank is cycled. While he's in there, I'm changing his water every other day with conditioned tap water which is at 65 deg F at the time I add the water to the container. Om Nom is kept in my bedroom which is also a constant 65 deg F and I leave him in indirect sunlight (enough light for him to see where he's going but never any bright light, he's always kept in the shade). I'm also feeding him on a diet of frozen blood worms and brine shrimp and I feed him every other day. When I change his water, I move him to another Tupperware container that has fresh conditioned water at 65 deg F and then move him in to his larger container after I toss his old water and add fresh conditioned water.
9 days ago, I was changing his water when he unfortunately panicked and jumped out of the container before I scooped him and landed on my carpet (about a 2 foot drop). I scooped him up and put him in fresh conditioned water immediately (don't worry, I tossed out that stupid smaller container he jumped out of. I'm never using that thing again and I'm currently using larger containers with higher walls that he can't jump out of for his holding and changing container). After that, I left him in the dark and turned the temperature in my room down to 55 deg F for the weekend. Two days later, he recovered both his appetite (man does he eat a lot), his color (very bright red gills and slightly pink skin), and his gills look fine (no fibril loss that I can see, very red, and the gills don't look damaged). He's also moving around a lot.
I went to change his water a few hours ago when I noticed two long tubular shaped things attached to the tip of his tail (it's just on his tail, no where else on his body). I took pictures on my phone and I"m in the process of trying to move them over (sorry, new phone) but let me try to describe them: they're a few centimeters long, opaque, and attached quite firmly to his tail (he's swimming around his container a lot happily doing laps). His attitude hasn't changed (he's still eating A LOT (a whole cube of frozen brine shrimp for example within 2 minutes), his gills and tone looks fantastic, and he still pauses to look up at me when I check in on him) but I'm really concerned that this might be some kind of fungus or anchorworm. I'm really considering giving him a salt bath for a few days just to be sure but I"m not sure if that's a good idea or not.
I'm going to talk to my husband when he wakes up in the morning so I can figure out how to upload these pictures on here so you all can help. If there's anything that I accidentally left out let me know so I can help you help Om.
P.S: one last thing in case someone asks: my tap water has all the right levels (pH: 7, ammonia: 0, nitrite: 0, nitrate: 0). I tested it with API freshwater master test kit drops when I moved in to this place a few months ago. Thanks!
Is it like the photo on this page?
