GreerDalrymple
New member
THE BACKGROUND INFO
Hi everyone, I haven't posted in a few months as everything has been fine after you all helped me out when my guys got heat stroke. I lost 3 axolotls because of that temperature mistake by the time I realised what it was that was harming them.
Charlie is my survivor, he/she is a roughly year & a half old wild type. For a lot of his life he was fed on crickets which stunted his growth as they couldn't be digested properly, & was kept outside in winter when he was a baby, also contributing to his small size. He copped a gill fungus infection with the heat, resulting in an almost dead Charles who didn't eat in the fridge for 3 weeks, & gills that were a lot smaller than before the ordeal.
http://www.caudata.org/forum/f46-be...iscussion/93782-charlie-still-recovering.html
This is a link to my old post on Charlie, with a few different pic's on his recovery.
Everything has been fine since buying & setting up my chiller, Charlie has lived & eaten happily with my morpholotl Mustang since then in their 4' tank. They both eat boiled earth worms from my worm farm roughly every two days as much as they'll take, I hand feed them as my morph has trouble eating anyway, & it helps control waste. I have an Aquis 1250 canister filter & lots of hiding spots, also the chiller is a Resun CL-280 set at 17 degree's, though on hot days it kicks up to 19 at the very most.
THE PROBLEM
As of the last few weeks, Charlie has been spitting out his food. He is really keen to eat it, & after he spits it out he comes for another bit. I have tried getting small ones, cutting longer ones in half, holding them differently so he gets more in his mouth at once.. I don't know. He usually eats the very first worm & that's it, the rest is just following my hand & spitting them back out, he gets them fully inside his mouth, then starts regurgitating them or something.
While this has been happening he has stopped being very active at all, I don't know whether that's because he has no energy from not eating or whether it is part of the problem. Usually swimming or at least walking around, he just sits in the shade & only looks like he has any energy when I go to feed him, where he bites my fingers he's so keen.
One other thing is his gills never grew back as long as they used to be after the fungal infection, if anyone knows of any ways to improve gill growth that would be great, though I understand it could also be to do with the eating & behaviour.
Please let me know if anyone knows anything that it could be or that could help, thankyou!!
Hi everyone, I haven't posted in a few months as everything has been fine after you all helped me out when my guys got heat stroke. I lost 3 axolotls because of that temperature mistake by the time I realised what it was that was harming them.
Charlie is my survivor, he/she is a roughly year & a half old wild type. For a lot of his life he was fed on crickets which stunted his growth as they couldn't be digested properly, & was kept outside in winter when he was a baby, also contributing to his small size. He copped a gill fungus infection with the heat, resulting in an almost dead Charles who didn't eat in the fridge for 3 weeks, & gills that were a lot smaller than before the ordeal.
http://www.caudata.org/forum/f46-be...iscussion/93782-charlie-still-recovering.html
This is a link to my old post on Charlie, with a few different pic's on his recovery.
Everything has been fine since buying & setting up my chiller, Charlie has lived & eaten happily with my morpholotl Mustang since then in their 4' tank. They both eat boiled earth worms from my worm farm roughly every two days as much as they'll take, I hand feed them as my morph has trouble eating anyway, & it helps control waste. I have an Aquis 1250 canister filter & lots of hiding spots, also the chiller is a Resun CL-280 set at 17 degree's, though on hot days it kicks up to 19 at the very most.
THE PROBLEM
As of the last few weeks, Charlie has been spitting out his food. He is really keen to eat it, & after he spits it out he comes for another bit. I have tried getting small ones, cutting longer ones in half, holding them differently so he gets more in his mouth at once.. I don't know. He usually eats the very first worm & that's it, the rest is just following my hand & spitting them back out, he gets them fully inside his mouth, then starts regurgitating them or something.
While this has been happening he has stopped being very active at all, I don't know whether that's because he has no energy from not eating or whether it is part of the problem. Usually swimming or at least walking around, he just sits in the shade & only looks like he has any energy when I go to feed him, where he bites my fingers he's so keen.
One other thing is his gills never grew back as long as they used to be after the fungal infection, if anyone knows of any ways to improve gill growth that would be great, though I understand it could also be to do with the eating & behaviour.
Please let me know if anyone knows anything that it could be or that could help, thankyou!!