IgosDuIkana
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I just caught one of my axies resting atop the filter, almost on the surface.
I think that's super weird, so what could it be? Water conditions?
I think that's super weird, so what could it be? Water conditions?
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Question: Axolotl Atop filter
- Thread starter IgosDuIkana
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Some axies do that because there's more oxygen flow on top of the filter. Perhaps he was just being lazy 
layna
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Yesterday i can home and couldnt see my wildtype, took me a good 5 mins to realise he was perched on, the really thin green stem, with one leg hanging down either side of it, of my silk plant sat under the filter. His gills were blowing from the water but he seemed content with it
He just liked blending in with the plant haha, lotl hide and seek.
He just liked blending in with the plant haha, lotl hide and seek.
auntiejude
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Yup, mine like sitting on the filter, in foliage etc near the surface. In fact, one of mine sleeps half way up a tree, wedged with his belly against the glass.
I used to have one of those tanks which in the corner has a container thing divided into a filter side, and heater side (like the picture attached). Now, obviously I didn't have a heater so that part was empty.
The water level must have been a little bit over the top of this container and I came home one day to a missing axolotl.
I was absolutely freaking out, I had a lid on the tank and there was really no way he could have gotten out. I eventually found him curled up in the container.
The water level must have been a little bit over the top of this container and I came home one day to a missing axolotl.
I was absolutely freaking out, I had a lid on the tank and there was really no way he could have gotten out. I eventually found him curled up in the container.
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Kerry M
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You could always test your water to check. Whenever I am worried about something I do a test. Your lotl could just be chilling out, they like to find somewhere to hang out ?
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