r/axolotl

my sweet girl turned six on june 30th! i've had her since she was four months old, swipe to see one of her baby pictures

Hi! My axolotl, Rosie, has been healthy and eating but just yesterday we noticed one gill is damaged. I’m not sure what happened but should I be concerned?

I tested her water and there was no issues related to that! I have attached a picture of how her gills normally look and the damaged one.

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I stopped dosing ammonia maybe 3 days ago, however the nitrites haven’t budged. They’ve been the same deep purple for 4 days now, should I do a water change? How much?

FIRST photo is in my kitchen lighting (bulbs are a little bit yellow toned) SECOND photo is natural lighting.
🚩THIRD photo is me mixing 2.5ml of ammonia free water with 2.5ml of tank water and testing.🚩 Help please what do you think the actual reading is? I did the method of mixing half and half because i was worried my level was over 8ppm but just not sure at this point? (Axl is not in tank)

Got some tinfoil around the tank to reflect the heat off, just thought i would share a lil life hack to those who also live in the uk right now and are struggling with the heatwave🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

I am considering purchasing a second axolotl. I currently have a male in a 75 gallon tank and he is the best boy!

I’ve done a lot of research and seen a lot of breeders guess on gender due to a juveniles body type. With males being more slender, lanky, longer tails and females more rounded and stout. Obviously I understand this isn’t a guarantee but I’m wondering if anyone has gendered their axolotls like this as I am hoping to buy a boy to prevent breeding.

I do also have a second empty cycled tank as well that I use for plant and shrimp quarantine.

TLDR: do you think this is a boy or a girl based on body shape alone. Yes I know you’re supposed to wait until month 18.

I was thinking of getting this hide and wanted to get some more opinions on it. I already have 2 hides in my tank but wanted to get an interesting one in there.

The hide is about 11 inches long. I think the main hole is about 2.5-3 inches wide and the smaller bottom 2 roughly 2 inches wide.

The rocks look jagged but smoothed out. Was curious if others thought it would be too sharp.

My axolotl had one of his gills go dark when I first got him back in January, I have cleaned his tank regularly, and done my test strips and nothing is off. Is this just a physical injury that healed like that?

my Axies (both about 4 inches long) were doing amazing for a week in their big (70gal) tank, but something happened with my cycle (my nitrites and ammonia spiked after 6 full days of them in the tank so I believe my cycle was not properly finished as I thought it was or i did something wrong, completely my mistake..) so i had to tub them to figure it out. I figured they would be fine together but one night over night (in a 56qt it is rectangle and filled about 12 inches deep) and i woke up to this mark on one of their tails. The place we got them from literally had them kept in 25 gallon tanks with 7-10 other axies (which i know is not correct but they were unfortunately doing it) and they all were getting a long so I really had no big concerns. They are both fed at least 2 times a day sometimes 3 if they are begging later in the day and again in the big tank nothing like this ever appeared….They both ate only one piece of worm this morning (blanched and cut up) when they usually both eat like a whole worm or 2. I feel so stressed about them not having their big home💔