TanyaDeeee
New member
Hi All,
I'm new to this site and to Axolotls in general and need some good advice on what to do. My boyfriend and I rescued an Axolotl that had been dumped in our community garden pond a couple of weeks ago, I was given the advice that I should take it out as it wouldn't be a suitable environment for her and she would most likely die if left there. So I got her out, bought a 64ltr tank with a filter set up and put large stones and live plants in there. She was very nervous in the first week and didn't seem to take well to blood worms, so we have started feeding her live earth worms (which she LOVES!) and she seem a lot more settle.
We have now noticed that she looks a little different, hey eyes look bulgy and I have seen her blink on more than one occasion, furthermore her gills are noticeably shorter, although they are still visible and she looks like she has more pigment on her skin and are worried that she may be going through metamorphosis.
We are at a loss at what we should be doing, and wanted to find out if there is anything that you can do to stop this from happening and if not how long it takes. We know that if it happens she will no longer be aquatic and we have built up some rocks in her tank and given a platform that she can go onto to get air if she needs it. Any advice or help on this would be much appreciated! I have attached some pics, the one that is a collage shows her when we first got her and then her now, so you can see the difference in gill length. The others are all her now, also any idea how old she could be......
Thanks a lot!!
Tanya & Benny
I'm new to this site and to Axolotls in general and need some good advice on what to do. My boyfriend and I rescued an Axolotl that had been dumped in our community garden pond a couple of weeks ago, I was given the advice that I should take it out as it wouldn't be a suitable environment for her and she would most likely die if left there. So I got her out, bought a 64ltr tank with a filter set up and put large stones and live plants in there. She was very nervous in the first week and didn't seem to take well to blood worms, so we have started feeding her live earth worms (which she LOVES!) and she seem a lot more settle.
We have now noticed that she looks a little different, hey eyes look bulgy and I have seen her blink on more than one occasion, furthermore her gills are noticeably shorter, although they are still visible and she looks like she has more pigment on her skin and are worried that she may be going through metamorphosis.
We are at a loss at what we should be doing, and wanted to find out if there is anything that you can do to stop this from happening and if not how long it takes. We know that if it happens she will no longer be aquatic and we have built up some rocks in her tank and given a platform that she can go onto to get air if she needs it. Any advice or help on this would be much appreciated! I have attached some pics, the one that is a collage shows her when we first got her and then her now, so you can see the difference in gill length. The others are all her now, also any idea how old she could be......
Thanks a lot!!
Tanya & Benny