Jamiee
New member
Hello!!
I'm sorry if this is not the right place to post this (I'm new here). My firebelly newts had babies about a month ago, everythings been going okay so far but something happened last night and I lost just under half of them.
To give you a quick rundown on their care;
- I had them set up in 3 different containers with air stones (9 or so per container)
- obviously no heaters, water is at room temp, around 69 deg. F
- I've been doing daily water changes with RODI (removing all waste & >50% of the water)
- feeding them 2x per day, I'm in Canada and didn't have access to bring shrimp (I do now, just waiting for them to grow) - in the meantime I have been feeding them live copepods (I think this might have been part of the problem)
When I checked on them this morning there were a couple already dead, a number of them seem to have a white fungus (or something) on them. It sort of resembles Ich but none of my other animals have ever had Ich and I haven't introduced anything new so I don't think thats what it is.
I took them all out of the containers and put them in clean bowls of RODI, I separated the ones that have the fungus. I have attached pictures below - if anyone has any ideas on what this is or what I could do to save the ones with the fungus it would be greatly appreciated, I have seen people treat fungus in axolotls with aquarium salt but I am concerned that they are too young and it would be too hard on their bodies?
Please let me know if you have any ideas!!
Thank you!
I'm sorry if this is not the right place to post this (I'm new here). My firebelly newts had babies about a month ago, everythings been going okay so far but something happened last night and I lost just under half of them.
To give you a quick rundown on their care;
- I had them set up in 3 different containers with air stones (9 or so per container)
- obviously no heaters, water is at room temp, around 69 deg. F
- I've been doing daily water changes with RODI (removing all waste & >50% of the water)
- feeding them 2x per day, I'm in Canada and didn't have access to bring shrimp (I do now, just waiting for them to grow) - in the meantime I have been feeding them live copepods (I think this might have been part of the problem)
When I checked on them this morning there were a couple already dead, a number of them seem to have a white fungus (or something) on them. It sort of resembles Ich but none of my other animals have ever had Ich and I haven't introduced anything new so I don't think thats what it is.
I took them all out of the containers and put them in clean bowls of RODI, I separated the ones that have the fungus. I have attached pictures below - if anyone has any ideas on what this is or what I could do to save the ones with the fungus it would be greatly appreciated, I have seen people treat fungus in axolotls with aquarium salt but I am concerned that they are too young and it would be too hard on their bodies?
Please let me know if you have any ideas!!
Thank you!
