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I have 12 axie babies that hatched a couple weeks ago. All are doing great as far as I can tell but is showing a bit of red in its head area...kinda looks like bleeding? They have all been separated in their own containers for about a week and then this red showed up on the one. It hasn't endured any trauma I'm aware of. Wondering if this is normal or if there's anything I might do for the little guy. Please check the photo. Thanks.
 

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Normally you can see the brain case pretty easily as a reddish spot, but that does look a little redder than normal.

There probably isn't much you can do if it's an internal bleed. Just keep feeding as normal and see if it makes it.
 
How long has it been there? I feed mine which are similar size to yours live daphnia and they seem to store the food in their mouths for a while before swallowing if it's quite big.
 
SuperSteve said:
How long has it been there? I feed mine which are similar size to yours live daphnia and they seem to store the food in their mouths for a while before swallowing if it's quite big.
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:confused: I noticed it on Saturday, Feb 2, while feeding. Hadn't seen it before, or at least it didn't catch my attention. Maybe it was the lighting this time but now I can't look at the little guy without seeing it. Hopefully it's nothing serious. He seems to be doing just fine and is progressing the same as the others (I have 12 in total).
 
I reckon if it was anything life threatening he'd probably not still be alive. Don't worry about it and see what happens. You never know it could be some kind of cool colour mutation :happy:
The 'Japanese flag axolotl' :lol:
 
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