Hey,
I've had my axolotl for about 5 months now, and I got it three weeks after it hatched (about 1,5 cm).
He's growing fast and hits the 15 cm now. One thing worries me though. He has HUGE gills, much bigger than those of fully grown axolotls that I have seen on this forum and he just can't get them straight up. They're curled forward very extremely all the time, they even touch his eyes sometimes.. I've read that this is a stress indicator that is likely caused by current caused by a filter. This cannot be the cause as my filter has a very gentle outflow, turned to the glass wall and hidden behind a piece of fake rock and I even tried switching the filter off for 2 days, which did not help.
Its tail is straight, though.
I bought a set of water test strips and they did not show anything abnormal.
I feed him a cublicle of frozen blood worms each day, sometimes altered with a bunch of live bloodworms and daphnia and a piece of frozen fish fillets every 2 or 3 days. He eats and poops well and he looks healthy to me apart from the gills.
Anyone who've had this before? Is it possible that its gills are just too heavy for him to keep them straight?
greets Jelle
I've had my axolotl for about 5 months now, and I got it three weeks after it hatched (about 1,5 cm).
He's growing fast and hits the 15 cm now. One thing worries me though. He has HUGE gills, much bigger than those of fully grown axolotls that I have seen on this forum and he just can't get them straight up. They're curled forward very extremely all the time, they even touch his eyes sometimes.. I've read that this is a stress indicator that is likely caused by current caused by a filter. This cannot be the cause as my filter has a very gentle outflow, turned to the glass wall and hidden behind a piece of fake rock and I even tried switching the filter off for 2 days, which did not help.
Its tail is straight, though.
I bought a set of water test strips and they did not show anything abnormal.
I feed him a cublicle of frozen blood worms each day, sometimes altered with a bunch of live bloodworms and daphnia and a piece of frozen fish fillets every 2 or 3 days. He eats and poops well and he looks healthy to me apart from the gills.
Anyone who've had this before? Is it possible that its gills are just too heavy for him to keep them straight?
greets Jelle