Melanoid Axolotl foot turning pink

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Hey everyone. This is my first post on here so bare with me 😅. I've recently finished cycling my axolotls tank and I put him in yesterday. He has been active and eating great. He also pooped. Today I noticed he has pinkish coloring on his back leg that I have never seen. I'm wondering if its a bacteria or maybe the sand substrate rubbing his leg raw? He was tubbed for the first 2 months thats I had him, I changed his water daily. I'm using seachem black flourite sand in this tank. Its a 40 gallon breeder. I tried to get a good picture but this is all I could get. He was also lifting his leg up like this. View attachment 90492View attachment 90493 View attachment 90491His tank parameters are:
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrites: 0ppm
Nitrates: 40 ppm
pH: 7.6~8

Any advice would help. This is my first axolotl and I want to keep him happy and safe 🥺
 
bestie he is so pretty and looks so healthy! Good job! I think it may be red leg (not from the pictures, but because the tank parameters are perfect and his gills are fluffy and not curled) I would look into the symptoms and other axies with septicemia because I couldn't really see any discoloration in the pictures
 
Gettofox16 said:
Hey everyone. This is my first post on here so bare with me 😅. I've recently finished cycling my axolotls tank and I put him in yesterday. He has been active and eating great. He also pooped. Today I noticed he has pinkish coloring on his back leg that I have never seen. I'm wondering if its a bacteria or maybe the sand substrate rubbing his leg raw? He was tubbed for the first 2 months thats I had him, I changed his water daily. I'm using seachem black flourite sand in this tank. Its a 40 gallon breeder. I tried to get a good picture but this is all I could get. He was also lifting his leg up like this. View attachment 90492View attachment 90493 View attachment 90491His tank parameters are:
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrites: 0ppm
Nitrates: 40 ppm
pH: 7.6~8

Any advice would help. This is my first axolotl and I want to keep him happy and safe 🥺
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also I think he's an axanthic! He has a lot of spots so I just thought to mention :3
 
Lyv3wyr3 said:
bestie he is so pretty and looks so healthy! Good job! I think it may be red leg (not from the pictures, but because the tank parameters are perfect and his gills are fluffy and not curled) I would look into the symptoms and other axies with septicemia because I couldn't really see any discoloration in the pictures
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Wow thank you! That is so good to hear from someone else, I always think maybe I'm not doing something right.. Yea it was hard to get a picture of his foot 😅 I think he might just be growing a bit. I read that as they get older they can have some lighter parts on their belly and toes. I'll do more research on septicemia and really narrow down if he has any other symptoms . I may just be worried to much about him. Hes my first axolotl 🥰
 
Lyv3wyr3 said:
also I think he's an axanthic! He has a lot of spots so I just thought to mention :3
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Another thing to research on ._. I never even thought of that. He also gas green eyes which means he's a gfp... I got everything but a melanoid axolotl 🤣
 

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Gettofox16 said:
Another thing to research on ._. I never even thought of that. He also gas green eyes which means he's a gfp... I got everything but a melanoid axolotl 🤣
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i also have an axanthic. she looks like this
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