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Are axolotls sensitive to fertilizers or co2?

Jonjey

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I plan on eventually making my 50 gallon which will (eventually) hold 5 axolotls (2 at the moment, my other three have to grow up first) and I want to make it a beautiful lush planted tank with a full baby tears carpet and tons of driftwood covered in moss and plants. Most things will be tied down or weighted in some way so the axolotls can't dig anything up too much. Substrate will be soil with plastic mesh on top of it and sand on top of it, baby tears will be tied into the mesh under the sand and roots down into the soil, lots of rotala and hornwort curtains along the back of the tank, and probably some pvc pipe tunnels hidden within all the back curtain, maybe even some that goes under the substrate for little cave homes. Anyone, are axolotls cool with fertilizers and co2 injections?
 

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Fertilisers are not good for a ies as they are absorbed through the skin. CO2 definately not safe.
I do believe that iron based ferts are OK-ish if you really must.
 
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