Illness/Sickness: Oh no not another one

[layna]

I was wondering if anyone could help me? I bought three baby axies they should be at around 6 weeks old now. Except one died around two weeks ago and I have come home today to find another dead... now I thought if they were going to die it would be pretty early on but this little fellow lived for 6 weeks, he was still eating and swimming then suddenly died. The last surviving one is a lot bigger than he was and is getting his front legs but I can't see what's wrong. My tank set up has a live plant, an air stone and some daphnia in there, places to hide and I dechlorinate tap water and i put some dechlorinator/conditioner liquid stuff in. I leave the water for at least 24 hours and regularly suck the bad stuff out the bottom of the tank.

I dont know if its me or they would have died anyway?

is my tank set up causing problems, and what could i do to stop my last little one from going the same route?

 

[Kaysie]

How big is your tank? How often do you do water changes? Do you test your water parameters? Ammonia and nitrite especially. How warm is the tank? What kind of substrate do you have?

How exactly do you dechlorinate your water? You shouldn't have to add any extra dechlorinator to the tank if you dechlorinate the water properly out of the tap. What other 'liquid stuff' are you putting in the tank?

Are you sure they were eating? Daphnia are pretty small. At 6 weeks, they might not be seeing daphnia as a food source.

 

[layna]

hey i use aqua care water conditioner and leave it for 24 hours minimum. the waters pretty cool our house is usually 17-18 degrees Celsius and i dont have any substrate hes too tiny

 

[layna]

pics

 

[layna]

the last surviving axie seems to be doing okay, he is using his front arms a little to swim now and is still eating. i hope hes okay!

 

[layna]

hey, how old are axies when you can start to judge their colour?

 

[FX1C]

You can get indications from eye colour & translucence - the albinos seem to be very obvious as the eyes are pink.

I've asked this same question about a little one I have here & it seems to be a melanoid because the eyes are pure black. I believe the wild types have a dark eye with a ring around the eye.
Here's a pic of my little one.

 

[NeekaLovesYou]

Judging colour is usually pretty obvious early on. Luecistics have dark eyes but no pigmentation, albinos no pigmentation and red eyes. It can sometimes be harder to tell the difference between wild types and melanoids as they can be dark but as said, a ring around the eyes can usually be seen in wildtypes whereas it's missing in melanoids.

 

[AxieMama]

Might be time to try your baby on a larger food source. At this age, live black worm is perfect, chopped into smaller pieces. Believe it or not, they stay alive and wriggling for days!

 

[layna]

aww you axie is really cute mine seems to be a similar colour to yours and doesnt have a ring around his black eyes

mine needs to be on a different food source? the daphnia are still sometimes too big to fit in his mouth so i figured there okay, what do you suggest that is bigger than daphnia but not TOO big for his little mouth?