Question: Fridges and tea baths?

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Hi guys,

I've been reading many of the forums and people talking about refrigerating their axolotls, and giving them tea baths...

I am curious as to what are reasons for doing this (and the benefits)?

Thanks:happy:
 
Refrigeration slows their metabolism, so if they are sick or dying it can halt it long enough to give them treatment. If your axie is going to get too hot during a heatwave fridging can be a solution (albeit a temporary one)

Tea baths help close their pores and make them more resistant to fungus, as well as soothing their skin if they got heat, ammonia, nitrite or nitrate burn.

Tea baths aren't helpful if your axie already has a fungus, though. It will just make it harder to treat.
 
Thanks for that, I learned a lot. So would you say giving a tea bath every now and then is good as a general tonic for healthy axe skin, or more for when they have one of the problems you outlined? Also, does it matter what tea you use, or do you just have to find out what your axe's favourite tea is? :p:rolleyes:

When making the tea bath do you just put them in a Tupperware of tea steeped water? What is the recommended time they should stay in the tea?
 
Any black tea is fine so long as it isn't herbal. Giving them a tea bath by taking them out of the tank, putting them in the tea, then taking them back out seems unnecessarily stressful unless your axie is actually sick. You can however add a little bit of tea to the tank when you do water changes, long term tea won't hurt them.

If doing an actual tea-bath because your axie is sick you'd have to check the forums, theres a pretty detailed post about tea baths somewhere :p I usually just add enough so the water looks darker, not a whole cup.
 
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