BreakingBrad
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Hello everyone! First post
I'm sorry to start it with what I am sure is a common topic but I am struggling to make an identification. Identification information is surprisingly sparse but from what I have read I think we have axolotls.
My girlfriend has wanted axolotls for a long time. She had a 55 gallon with a few goldfish which cycled the tank. We maintained the tank specifically for future axolotls. Using a master test kit PH is around 7-8, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate hovers near 0 or ultra low with weekly water changes of 20%. I've had a lot of fish tanks in my life from 110 gallon Amazon tank with a 40 gallon mangrove swamp overflow refugium to a 14 gallon nano reef with a zebra mantis shrimp! This isn't my first rodeo.
We were at a LFS in Wichita and saw a tank marked axolotls! It said water dogs $10, albino axolotl $50, and then simply axolotl $40. I asked the employees for help and they sold them to us as water dogs for $20 for the pair. I have never trusted pet store employees and these individuals did not seem to me to be particularly well informed (I could see a heater running in the tank and they told me you can tell it's an axolotl if it's pink or white...) so I suspected that they might be miss marked axolotls. They were the only two animals in the tank at the time so there weren't others for comparison. We bought them knowing that either way they will be great to care for and if they are water dogs they will just require the tank to be reorganized and partially drained.
They little guys have been eating earthworms like champs and doing great for the past week or so since we got them. I can't help but want to know what they are though. I will post pictures in the next comment because for some reason it is not letting me right now from my phone.
I'm sorry to start it with what I am sure is a common topic but I am struggling to make an identification. Identification information is surprisingly sparse but from what I have read I think we have axolotls.
My girlfriend has wanted axolotls for a long time. She had a 55 gallon with a few goldfish which cycled the tank. We maintained the tank specifically for future axolotls. Using a master test kit PH is around 7-8, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate hovers near 0 or ultra low with weekly water changes of 20%. I've had a lot of fish tanks in my life from 110 gallon Amazon tank with a 40 gallon mangrove swamp overflow refugium to a 14 gallon nano reef with a zebra mantis shrimp! This isn't my first rodeo.
We were at a LFS in Wichita and saw a tank marked axolotls! It said water dogs $10, albino axolotl $50, and then simply axolotl $40. I asked the employees for help and they sold them to us as water dogs for $20 for the pair. I have never trusted pet store employees and these individuals did not seem to me to be particularly well informed (I could see a heater running in the tank and they told me you can tell it's an axolotl if it's pink or white...) so I suspected that they might be miss marked axolotls. They were the only two animals in the tank at the time so there weren't others for comparison. We bought them knowing that either way they will be great to care for and if they are water dogs they will just require the tank to be reorganized and partially drained.
They little guys have been eating earthworms like champs and doing great for the past week or so since we got them. I can't help but want to know what they are though. I will post pictures in the next comment because for some reason it is not letting me right now from my phone.