Rxoc
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Today I cleaned out my axies entire tank to start over the time since ammonia levels were out of hand...so I loved her into a small critter carrier with appropriate water and a small sponge filter. I used a net to move her in one quick swoop of a motion. Yet when I added her to the container I noticed she was doing this weird gulping motion. Opening her mouth and the area under her chin was expanding like as if she was gulping air but she was under after. My axie also goes up for air often as her gills had been bitten off by fish at the LFS. I’m worried... I was actually so worried that I finished setting up her tank. Let her original new soaknge filter in and added a tetra whisper 10 filter from my established tank. So she has two filters in there one with some established media and one without. She gulped a couple more times, went up for air and then she seems to have relaxed in the bottom...no curved tail and her gills are nowhere near long enough to curl forward so I don’t have any indication to go off of. I’m super worried!