Carolina85
New member
Hi everyone,
I'm very very new to Axolotl as we just got our guy yesterday. He is about 4 inches long gfp Mel. I've kept aquariums but new to these guys. We had a cycled tank that held guppies for almost a year that we converted a few days ago. I left the old decorations and filter media hoping to disturb the cycle as little as possible when I moved the guppies, but I think I crashed it instead. I'm testing the water and showing below 20 nitrates nitrates and ~1 nitrite with small traces of ammonia so I'm doing water changes daily until we fix it. I have a hang on the back filter but I've damped the flow with sponges, fine sand media.
My question is the guy seems stressed in the tank. Flipping gills every 10-15 seconds and they looked slightly curled gills this morning. I was having issues feeding him in the tank as he is slow to grab worms so I scooped him slowly into a Rubbermaid container with aquarium water and he immediately seemed to relax. Should I let him stay in the Rubbermaid? Could the fine sand be bothering him? Is this just adjustment? We've had him less than a day but hes eating in the Rubbermaid right now.
I'm very very new to Axolotl as we just got our guy yesterday. He is about 4 inches long gfp Mel. I've kept aquariums but new to these guys. We had a cycled tank that held guppies for almost a year that we converted a few days ago. I left the old decorations and filter media hoping to disturb the cycle as little as possible when I moved the guppies, but I think I crashed it instead. I'm testing the water and showing below 20 nitrates nitrates and ~1 nitrite with small traces of ammonia so I'm doing water changes daily until we fix it. I have a hang on the back filter but I've damped the flow with sponges, fine sand media.
My question is the guy seems stressed in the tank. Flipping gills every 10-15 seconds and they looked slightly curled gills this morning. I was having issues feeding him in the tank as he is slow to grab worms so I scooped him slowly into a Rubbermaid container with aquarium water and he immediately seemed to relax. Should I let him stay in the Rubbermaid? Could the fine sand be bothering him? Is this just adjustment? We've had him less than a day but hes eating in the Rubbermaid right now.