Sick?

[Darkshines]

I'll skip over the long stories I always seem to post..

1)Last night I noticed little.. well.. um, how to explain them.. they remind me of I used to have sea monkeys, just after they hatched and where tiny white specs darting around, in my tank. 100s of them, hanging around the glass and at the bottom of the tank. Don't know if (attempting) to feed my axolotl frozen brine shrimp about a month back has anything to do with this?

2) It appears that she is shedding her skin? Is this normal? I didn't know where to look for this on axolotl.org so forgive me if it's on there.

Any help is appreciated, and please excuse my ignorance on the subject. I never planned on buying an axolotl.

 

[kapo]

Some people say their axolotls shed their skin, I've yet to see any of ours doing so, but then that's not to say they don't!

As for the creatures, are they like baby brineshrimp or daphnia? They may be too small to photograph, but check following link, it may or may not help: http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/Tank_critters.shtml

Have you tested your tankwater for ammonia/nitrites/nitrates and what is tank temperature? How often do you clean the tank - waterchange and spotcleaning, if any?

 

[Darkshines]

Yeah, I tested the water last night and today. Ammonia: 0. Nitrite: 0. Nitrate: 0. I do water changes every week and spot cleaning every day. And I don't know what daphnia looks like but they look like baby brine shrimp.. to me at least.

 

[Kaysie]

'Tiny white specks' sounds like copepods. Harmless, and actually kind of interesting to watch.