Rxoc
New member
Hello!
So about 5 days ago I got my very first Axolotl. She/he is a tiny 2-3 inch leucistic that I call Little One ( I don’t want to name until I know the sex). Well little one (LO) I got at my LFS and LO had no gills/frills. LO was in a tank with some other animals/fish so I’m assuming they got bitten off. Right now LO is in a 10 gallon grow out tank with some sand, a Sponge filter, and a cup as a temporary hide. The tank was not cycled at all!
My issue is I’ve been doing daily 50-75% water changes, removing poop immediately and feeding LO blood worms one by one to ensure it doesn’t pollute the water. However, the water’s ammonia stay at around 1ppm (I don’t actually know because I lost the guide). I have been doing a fish in cycle with another 10 gallon I have that has 3 tiger barbs inside and that tank seems to be cycling fine... my water naturally carries .25 ppm of ammonia and both tanks started at that, both tanks rose to 1 ppm but only my fish tank has gone back down to .25 ppm (AND I was not doing any water changes to that tanks because I had put media from an established tank in there so it’s doing it’s job) however I do not have any media for a sponge filter so I’m at a loss on what to do.
So about 5 days ago I got my very first Axolotl. She/he is a tiny 2-3 inch leucistic that I call Little One ( I don’t want to name until I know the sex). Well little one (LO) I got at my LFS and LO had no gills/frills. LO was in a tank with some other animals/fish so I’m assuming they got bitten off. Right now LO is in a 10 gallon grow out tank with some sand, a Sponge filter, and a cup as a temporary hide. The tank was not cycled at all!
My issue is I’ve been doing daily 50-75% water changes, removing poop immediately and feeding LO blood worms one by one to ensure it doesn’t pollute the water. However, the water’s ammonia stay at around 1ppm (I don’t actually know because I lost the guide). I have been doing a fish in cycle with another 10 gallon I have that has 3 tiger barbs inside and that tank seems to be cycling fine... my water naturally carries .25 ppm of ammonia and both tanks started at that, both tanks rose to 1 ppm but only my fish tank has gone back down to .25 ppm (AND I was not doing any water changes to that tanks because I had put media from an established tank in there so it’s doing it’s job) however I do not have any media for a sponge filter so I’m at a loss on what to do.