Question: Metamorphsis

Hi,

Just i thought i would let you know my Sparky looks exactly the same as your one.

I got he/she from a awful put shop who admitted that Iodein was in the water the chemicals that can force them to morph!!

Needless to say i gave the guy what for and took he/she cause it was a week from death my the looks of it.

But having got some advise from everyone here he/she looks well on its way to recovery.

Best of luck! :D
 
Well, I asked if I could have the contact info, or if the guy who breeds them could get in contact with me. But all they told me was he is a very angry man that doesn't like to be contacted by anyone but the petshop... I only wanted to ask for some advice from him. But oh well.
 
How is your axie doing now? Have you managed to get him eating?

That pet shop and breeder sounds well-dodgy!
 
Fairies said:
Well, I asked if I could have the contact info, or if the guy who breeds them could get in contact with me. But all they told me was he is a very angry man that doesn't like to be contacted by anyone but the petshop... I only wanted to ask for some advice from him. But oh well.
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Well then, they can contact him on your behalf can't they!!! They really do sound dodgy and not particularly helpful!!
I hope you get your axy eating and it starts to recover!!
 
hi this probably sounds really silly, but when you say morphing, what exactly is the axxie becoming??? my brother just told me that at school he was told that all axxies turn into salamanders. is this right or is it just some of them???? i dont really want my axxie to turn into a salamander ><
 
The vast majority of axies will remain fully aquatic and neotenic for life. Only a very small percentage may spontaneously morph.
 
speckle said:
hi this probably sounds really silly, but when you say morphing, what exactly is the axxie becoming???
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It is becoming a terrestrial Axolotl. Have a look at Axolotl.org, at the last picture of this site you can see another metamorphed wildtype. But as Ray (Darkmaverik) said, only a small percentage of them is morphing.
 
Stephi, they did contact him for me, and all they said was the axolotl is very sick and had me put him on antibiotics and all kinds of things, so far nothing is working so I have stopped medicating him. He is still kicking back in the fridge, doing nothing. I have got my girl in there with him because i dont want him to be alone. She is fine she is not sick, her gills are fine and i think she will be safe in there with him. But I dont want him to be alone. They both havent eaten until yesterday I put some blood worm in there, I dont know who ate it, or if both of them did. but most of the food is gone. I will take some more pictures of him put them up.
I dont know whats wrong with him, but his gills are not growing back. anyway, I will put more pictures up, otherwise nothing new to report.

one question tho. Do you think its okay to keep them in the fridge. its a fridge with only them and their food in it. so it stays dark for like 99% of the time, do you think this is okay?
 
Fairies said:
I have got my girl in there with him because i dont want him to be alone. She is fine she is not sick, her gills are fine and i think she will be safe in there with him. But I dont want him to be alone. They both havent eaten until yesterday I put some blood worm in there, I dont know who ate it, or if both of them did. but most of the food is gone.

one question tho. Do you think its okay to keep them in the fridge. its a fridge with only them and their food in it. so it stays dark for like 99% of the time, do you think this is okay?
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Putting your healthy one in with him is a bad idea for many reasons. First, they aren't social (particularly in total darkness), so there's really no benefit for the sick one. Second, if the sick one has something contagious (you are using antibiotics, so there must be at least some chance that it has an infection, right?), then you risk spreading it to the healthy one. And thirdly, now you can't tell whether or he is eating or not since the healthy one eats the food. When you move the healthy one out of the fridge, be sure to let its temperature adjust very slowly (start it out in a container of fridged water, and let it come to room temp over a period of hours before you put it back in the regular tank).

I don't think that the darkness of the fridge is a big problem.
 
Better not mix the sick and the healthy one together. I reckon its a bad idea.
 
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