Quentari
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I had a cycling 4ft tank. My mother-in-law wanted to get rid of her white albino so rather than kill it I offered to house it with my others and find him a home. The white albino was perfectly fine when I got him but after about a week in a tub with daily water changes he started getting quite red. My other three were fine and the one little one in my already cycled 2ft was doing perfectly.
Once the tank was cycled I put all 4 (gold, melanoid, copper, albino) in together. I assumed the tubs were getting warm during the day when the heater was on, causing the reddness. Once the 4 were in the 4ft (overstocked by 1, I know. But it was supposed to be a fortnight at most) all of them looked fine. The albino went back to white and the other three were as healthy as ever.
My brother stuck a live plant in the tank from his fish tank. He had guppies and mollies and they all died. I still don't know what of, could be anything from starvation to ammonia to disease. I don't bother him with his fish, and he doesn't bother mine. He didn't tell me he'd given me this plant, but it's the only thing that had changed in the week before this all happened.
I was ready to ship the albino to Queensland for someone who wanted him, but he went red again. I told her I wouldn't ship him unless I knew he was okay. He kept eating fine but he didn't look healthy at all and over night he died.
After this happened I checked my water parameters, all at 0 except nitrate which was at around 40. Checked temp, still below 19.
Did a water change.
Two days later my copper had a bad fungus on his gills. I removed the other two and kept them in a storage container with daily water changes. Both kept eating fine. Did daily salt baths on the copper. He didn't make it.
Then my gold died in the night, and I don't know why. She had no fungus and was in fresh water. Nothing from the tank was with her other than my melanoid, who I found this afternoon dead the same way. All fresh water. I do not understand what happened.
Now I'm left with one axolotl, he was in a different tank to the others and doesn't seem to have been affected. Still eating and swimming and munching on the occasional guppy from my (quarantined) guppy tank.
So now I ask what I did wrong. Was it the plant? On the thread about my Copper I mentioned the plant and got blasted by a certain member for blaming a plant for my own ****ups. So what did I do wrong. What killed three healthy fish and one not-so-healthy fish. All I know is my wild type is fine and the lecustic at my mother-in-laws (who was with the albino) is also fine. Both are healthy. So it's something exclusive to my 4ft tank.
And before anyone else blames me for "butchering" my axolotl, don't panic. I'm not getting any more.
Once the tank was cycled I put all 4 (gold, melanoid, copper, albino) in together. I assumed the tubs were getting warm during the day when the heater was on, causing the reddness. Once the 4 were in the 4ft (overstocked by 1, I know. But it was supposed to be a fortnight at most) all of them looked fine. The albino went back to white and the other three were as healthy as ever.
My brother stuck a live plant in the tank from his fish tank. He had guppies and mollies and they all died. I still don't know what of, could be anything from starvation to ammonia to disease. I don't bother him with his fish, and he doesn't bother mine. He didn't tell me he'd given me this plant, but it's the only thing that had changed in the week before this all happened.
I was ready to ship the albino to Queensland for someone who wanted him, but he went red again. I told her I wouldn't ship him unless I knew he was okay. He kept eating fine but he didn't look healthy at all and over night he died.
After this happened I checked my water parameters, all at 0 except nitrate which was at around 40. Checked temp, still below 19.
Did a water change.
Two days later my copper had a bad fungus on his gills. I removed the other two and kept them in a storage container with daily water changes. Both kept eating fine. Did daily salt baths on the copper. He didn't make it.
Then my gold died in the night, and I don't know why. She had no fungus and was in fresh water. Nothing from the tank was with her other than my melanoid, who I found this afternoon dead the same way. All fresh water. I do not understand what happened.
Now I'm left with one axolotl, he was in a different tank to the others and doesn't seem to have been affected. Still eating and swimming and munching on the occasional guppy from my (quarantined) guppy tank.
So now I ask what I did wrong. Was it the plant? On the thread about my Copper I mentioned the plant and got blasted by a certain member for blaming a plant for my own ****ups. So what did I do wrong. What killed three healthy fish and one not-so-healthy fish. All I know is my wild type is fine and the lecustic at my mother-in-laws (who was with the albino) is also fine. Both are healthy. So it's something exclusive to my 4ft tank.
And before anyone else blames me for "butchering" my axolotl, don't panic. I'm not getting any more.
I might consider lotl's in the future but nothing for a little while at least. And I agree, it's breaking my heart seeing that big empty tank!
