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Illness/Sickness: Axolotl being sick and coming up for air

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I have a 7 year old Axolotl. In the last few months he has started to come up for a lot more air and is sick every so often. He was first sick in December 2018 when I changed his water. And again in January and February when I cleaned him out. I thought it was due to the water and temperature change. So I got a water testing kit and the water was fine. And then the other day I hadn’t even changed his tank but he was being sick. I feed him frozen blood worm and the very occasional live river shrimp. I try and keep his tank the correct temperature by added frozen bottles especially in the summer. He doesn’t seem stressed but I just don’t understand why he is being sick and coming up for a lot of air. Any ideas?
 
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Hey what are the actual readings for the water? Axolotls will come up for air if their gills are damaged and that's often caused by ammonia. I'm no expert in this so I could be wrong!
 
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Hey, thank you for your reply. This is were I find out I’ve got the water levels all wrong. So the no3 is 20, the no2 is 0, the PH is 6.5-7.5, the Kh is 240 and the GH is 180.
His gills have been damaged for a long time in his right hand side the gills are shorter and not as fluffy and this happened when he was very small and got poorly and grew big really quick.
 
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