Hi everyone! I am an Axolotl owner but this is my first rodeo! I wasn’t planning on having these little guys until I seen the condition they were in before.
They are baby axolotls (like 1 inch long baby!) and I am housing them in containers like my research (2 weeks of reading about them) suggested. I am keeping them at room temperature, which is 20 degrees C.
I’ve got one baby that will not eat, and is really, REALLY thin. I’ve tried baby brine shrimp from my hatchery and I’ve tried cut up bloodworms. Nothing worked. It was bloated in the pet store (and looked dead, that’s why I took them both), but I put it in the fridge for 3 hours and cured everything.
THEN, I noticed just how tiny it looks compared to the other axolotl. It looks as if it is shedding its skin, and it is now forming around its gills.
Can anyone help me gain knowledge as to why the one axie isn’t eating and what’s going on with it???? (If anyone needs pictures let me know, I will take brand new pictures of them and post them.)
They are baby axolotls (like 1 inch long baby!) and I am housing them in containers like my research (2 weeks of reading about them) suggested. I am keeping them at room temperature, which is 20 degrees C.
I’ve got one baby that will not eat, and is really, REALLY thin. I’ve tried baby brine shrimp from my hatchery and I’ve tried cut up bloodworms. Nothing worked. It was bloated in the pet store (and looked dead, that’s why I took them both), but I put it in the fridge for 3 hours and cured everything.
THEN, I noticed just how tiny it looks compared to the other axolotl. It looks as if it is shedding its skin, and it is now forming around its gills.
Can anyone help me gain knowledge as to why the one axie isn’t eating and what’s going on with it???? (If anyone needs pictures let me know, I will take brand new pictures of them and post them.)
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