Kc0olm
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I have seen some other posts on this. I wasn't sure whether to tag along on the others, or just start mine from scratch....
So, I am currently cycling a new tank and my axolotl is living in a tub - a nice one, with its own sponge filter, which I pulled from a cycled tank. She is around 7 months old.
For whatever reason - and I would appreciate theories - last night I came downstairs, by the grace of God, and found her on the floor, halfway to the door. There were only about 20 minutes between the time I left her, in her tank, and the time I found her outside, so the maximum time she could have been out was 2o minutes.
I'm not very experienced so I just picked her up, and put her back in the tub. I didn't notice any external injuries, except that there was a tiny bit of skin hanging off a toe on her right foot, and maybe some additional small bit of skin on the right side. Of course, I was worried that she had broken her leg, and, initially, I couldn't see her whole arm, so I thought it was gone. But luckily, not!
She would not eat, but I guess that was due to the trauma. She lay pretty still for some, but as I checked her through the night, she became more mobile, and in the morning, appeared to have full mobility. In fact, she looks pretty good today, and she ate a big worm, and same up to the surface when I put my face down there.
We may have gotten lucky, but, her tub is on top of a kitchen bar. So, she definitely had to drop 3 feet to get to the ground. There is a lot of junk lying around the foot of the bar, and two bar chairs. From the position of her tank, and the location of the rock hide which I am pretty sure she used for her escape, can imagine that she came down first on the bar chair, and then, again why?, continued her way to the floor. On the floor, she covered 6-7 feet horizontally! Where was she going?
So, I am worried mostly about internal injuries although as I wrote, she seems to act fine. I guess axolotls, being amphibians, done have calcium based bones - just cartilage. So I don't expect breakage there. If anything, I would worry about the brain and internal organs. But I see no signs of bruising. The only think I note is some tiny pieces of like skin floating in the tank? More like shed skin than torn or damaged.
I think I had the water level in the tank too high - enough to combine with some poor rock placement, to get her out. I took the same size tub, and turned it upside down on the one she is in, as a kind of lid. The edges don't meet exactly so there is air flow, and she does have a mini air filter in the tank. Hoping for the new main take to finish the cycle ASAP! It would be much harder, if not impossible, for her to escape that.
Should I add methylene blue to her tub water? Any other advice? I attached a picture
So, I am currently cycling a new tank and my axolotl is living in a tub - a nice one, with its own sponge filter, which I pulled from a cycled tank. She is around 7 months old.
For whatever reason - and I would appreciate theories - last night I came downstairs, by the grace of God, and found her on the floor, halfway to the door. There were only about 20 minutes between the time I left her, in her tank, and the time I found her outside, so the maximum time she could have been out was 2o minutes.
I'm not very experienced so I just picked her up, and put her back in the tub. I didn't notice any external injuries, except that there was a tiny bit of skin hanging off a toe on her right foot, and maybe some additional small bit of skin on the right side. Of course, I was worried that she had broken her leg, and, initially, I couldn't see her whole arm, so I thought it was gone. But luckily, not!
She would not eat, but I guess that was due to the trauma. She lay pretty still for some, but as I checked her through the night, she became more mobile, and in the morning, appeared to have full mobility. In fact, she looks pretty good today, and she ate a big worm, and same up to the surface when I put my face down there.
We may have gotten lucky, but, her tub is on top of a kitchen bar. So, she definitely had to drop 3 feet to get to the ground. There is a lot of junk lying around the foot of the bar, and two bar chairs. From the position of her tank, and the location of the rock hide which I am pretty sure she used for her escape, can imagine that she came down first on the bar chair, and then, again why?, continued her way to the floor. On the floor, she covered 6-7 feet horizontally! Where was she going?
So, I am worried mostly about internal injuries although as I wrote, she seems to act fine. I guess axolotls, being amphibians, done have calcium based bones - just cartilage. So I don't expect breakage there. If anything, I would worry about the brain and internal organs. But I see no signs of bruising. The only think I note is some tiny pieces of like skin floating in the tank? More like shed skin than torn or damaged.
I think I had the water level in the tank too high - enough to combine with some poor rock placement, to get her out. I took the same size tub, and turned it upside down on the one she is in, as a kind of lid. The edges don't meet exactly so there is air flow, and she does have a mini air filter in the tank. Hoping for the new main take to finish the cycle ASAP! It would be much harder, if not impossible, for her to escape that.
Should I add methylene blue to her tub water? Any other advice? I attached a picture
