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teesha
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Here is my story. so far 2 of my axolotls have died with the same symptoms. It was a rapid death with little symptoms. Here's how it goes.
for about 1-2 days they float. This is when i thought i'd change the water. After the water change all SEEMS well. I did a 25-40% water change...here are the comparisons:
POOKIE:
diet-meal worms, pellets, earth worms.
floated-on purpose and tried to get out of water
tail fin receded.
gulping for more air.
ammonia: .5
nirtrate: 1
pH: 6.8
Did 90% water change
everything: 0
dead next day. on her side at the bottom.
SPOT:
diet-pellets, earth worms, bloodworms
floating and resting up high on filter and plastic plants on purpose and trying to get out of the water for a day. i held him half out of water, and he swam back down to the bottom of the tank, then swam back up on the plant.
loads of planaria
changed 25% water
next day still floating, changed 90% water.
next day dead. sunken to the bottom with curled tail and curled gills and thick mucous.
i don't know why. He also seemed like the cappillaries were more visible and he is a wildtype....from my biological knowlege it seemed as is they were suffocating....hanging up the top and gulping alot and the cappillaries trying to get more oxygen.
what are the reactions to cholrine and chloromine...maybe im not adding enuff water ager. I use "stress coat" and "vitapet" (cant remember what its called, but its a powder.) brands. I recently started useing blue crystals which add hardness.
do any of you guys know what it is. The axolotl with my spot doesn't have these symptoms, and spot was with the other one whe she died and only showed these symptoms months afterwards.
i am baffled and sadenned, i have no idea why.
i dont use charcoal in my filter, maybe its a build up of toxic metals? i dunno.....i just want to know why.
Pookie was wiht me 7 months before she died and spot was with me 3-4 months when he died.
i think the water change freaked out the already stressed axolotls and caused them to die.
do any of you guys know the cause? Any ideas will help.
for about 1-2 days they float. This is when i thought i'd change the water. After the water change all SEEMS well. I did a 25-40% water change...here are the comparisons:
POOKIE:
diet-meal worms, pellets, earth worms.
floated-on purpose and tried to get out of water
tail fin receded.
gulping for more air.
ammonia: .5
nirtrate: 1
pH: 6.8
Did 90% water change
everything: 0
dead next day. on her side at the bottom.
SPOT:
diet-pellets, earth worms, bloodworms
floating and resting up high on filter and plastic plants on purpose and trying to get out of the water for a day. i held him half out of water, and he swam back down to the bottom of the tank, then swam back up on the plant.
loads of planaria
changed 25% water
next day still floating, changed 90% water.
next day dead. sunken to the bottom with curled tail and curled gills and thick mucous.
i don't know why. He also seemed like the cappillaries were more visible and he is a wildtype....from my biological knowlege it seemed as is they were suffocating....hanging up the top and gulping alot and the cappillaries trying to get more oxygen.
what are the reactions to cholrine and chloromine...maybe im not adding enuff water ager. I use "stress coat" and "vitapet" (cant remember what its called, but its a powder.) brands. I recently started useing blue crystals which add hardness.
do any of you guys know what it is. The axolotl with my spot doesn't have these symptoms, and spot was with the other one whe she died and only showed these symptoms months afterwards.
i am baffled and sadenned, i have no idea why.
i dont use charcoal in my filter, maybe its a build up of toxic metals? i dunno.....i just want to know why.
Pookie was wiht me 7 months before she died and spot was with me 3-4 months when he died.
i think the water change freaked out the already stressed axolotls and caused them to die.
do any of you guys know the cause? Any ideas will help.