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meghan
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This one keeps it's nostrils just above the water surface.
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joão
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always?
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shane
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it looks like it doesnt have gils in that pic. ive seen mine do that a bit not not all the time.
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hayley-jane
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Hi Meghan,
My Axie did that, but with her whole head about 2 months ago when she was really sick.
I put her in the fridge for like a month and she lost half of her gills but is now extra healthy.
I think it was a mixture of her recovering from 'cotton wool disease', the tank temperature being too hot (due to a massive heat wave we had here) and her not getting enough oxygen in the water.
Has your axie's skin started to look different from normal?
Elsa now...see how small her gills are now to how they were?
My Axie did that, but with her whole head about 2 months ago when she was really sick.
I put her in the fridge for like a month and she lost half of her gills but is now extra healthy.
I think it was a mixture of her recovering from 'cotton wool disease', the tank temperature being too hot (due to a massive heat wave we had here) and her not getting enough oxygen in the water.
Has your axie's skin started to look different from normal?
Elsa now...see how small her gills are now to how they were?
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hayley-jane
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Do you have a clearer picture?
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hayley-jane
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Is your axie eating and acting normal other than this?
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meghan
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That's what's strange. Everything's normal. Normal skin. Normal gills. Normal eating. Tank temps are normal. Even the water tests are normal. This one seems to have just started this behavior. I just happened to have my cam handy this time. Don't know what to make of it since everything "appears" to be normal.
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hayley-jane
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So long as everything is normal and the others are doing it, don't worry?
If the others were doing it I probably say get an air stone theres not enough oxygen in the water, but maybe that little guy is just being weird
He is a cutey though
If the others were doing it I probably say get an air stone theres not enough oxygen in the water, but maybe that little guy is just being weird
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meghan
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I may add an airstone anyway. Guess It wouldn't hurt anything. By the way, I love the color of your axie. It's gorgeous! I'd like to get one similar to that coloring or an albino. How do you clean your sand?
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joan
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I have 2 juveniles that do this too. Whenever I glance in on them, they're resting inside the floating plant, with their nostrils sticking out. They eat fine, act fine. I chalk it up to more axolotl weird-ness.
I clean my sand with a regular siphon. Just stir it up a little bit at the surface, suck up the really fine sand and the poo. If you keep ontop of poo-cleaning with the turkey baster, then you don't have to siphon too often.
I clean my sand with a regular siphon. Just stir it up a little bit at the surface, suck up the really fine sand and the poo. If you keep ontop of poo-cleaning with the turkey baster, then you don't have to siphon too often.
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hayley-jane
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Thanks
I clean my sand with a turkey baster too
I clean my sand with a turkey baster too