KYLZE
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Hi,
We had 2 axolotl's for 2 months before the female got sick and lost weight and wasn't eating. The fish shop we bought them from looked after her there for a week, treating her for worms and also with sulphur tabs in the water which made her heaps better. I got her back once she was eating again. Only eating small amounts as her stomach shrunk. Then when we thought she'd be fine, she died. For the week that she was at the fish shop the male stopped eating, so we've treated him at home with the same treatments and he's eating again now, heaps! He wants to eat everything and keeps coming up to the edge of the tank to watch us waiting for food. He used to do this before he got sick, so he seems better now. Only thing is that we haven't seen any poo for a couple of weeks. How often should he poop?
Would it be safe to get another female yet as we want one when he's better. He looks healthy. Seems skinny though compared to most of the pics I've seen on here. But he's always been like that. I'll take a photo tonight and post it on here tomorrow.
We hand feed him frozen bloodworms, ox heart and live blood worms. I also put a neon fish in there with him as the fish shop suggested he would eat this when he was sick and might help him. But the neon seems to be his friend now, they sit together and he hasn't tried to eat him.
He's in a 70L tank with regular water changes and the water has been cycled for a good year. The water conditions are perfect been tested by the fish shop and by me.
Thanks,
Kylie.
We had 2 axolotl's for 2 months before the female got sick and lost weight and wasn't eating. The fish shop we bought them from looked after her there for a week, treating her for worms and also with sulphur tabs in the water which made her heaps better. I got her back once she was eating again. Only eating small amounts as her stomach shrunk. Then when we thought she'd be fine, she died. For the week that she was at the fish shop the male stopped eating, so we've treated him at home with the same treatments and he's eating again now, heaps! He wants to eat everything and keeps coming up to the edge of the tank to watch us waiting for food. He used to do this before he got sick, so he seems better now. Only thing is that we haven't seen any poo for a couple of weeks. How often should he poop?
Would it be safe to get another female yet as we want one when he's better. He looks healthy. Seems skinny though compared to most of the pics I've seen on here. But he's always been like that. I'll take a photo tonight and post it on here tomorrow.
We hand feed him frozen bloodworms, ox heart and live blood worms. I also put a neon fish in there with him as the fish shop suggested he would eat this when he was sick and might help him. But the neon seems to be his friend now, they sit together and he hasn't tried to eat him.
He's in a 70L tank with regular water changes and the water has been cycled for a good year. The water conditions are perfect been tested by the fish shop and by me.
Thanks,
Kylie.