I have baby axolotls hatched 13th March. ive found that in the last week or so i am finding more and more dead every day, so far today theres been 12!!!
i do a daily water change and they are fed on brine shrimp. I use Seachem Prime in the water. Does anyone know wht they will be dying? Thanks
Yours hatched around when mine did
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Okay so first off, Maybe Id check the water parameters of your tap water just to be sure. You really never know and testing water should be the first step when you have a mass dying.
When you do water changes, do you do a 100% water change and rinse our the containers?
What kind of brine shrimp are you feeding them? If its frozen brine shrimp are you doing a water change after you feed them? They have a lot of salt in the cubes and it could effect the pH tremendously in a small tub of water.
If it is baby brine shrimp, they should be big enough to be eating bigger by now. I'm feeding mine frozen bloodworms and mine hatched march 8th
Have you noticed anything strange about them over the last two weeks or are these just sudden deaths? I have had one die on me and one is going to probably pass soon but they were sick for a week before they pass. Once they stop eating though I will euthanize them.
Normally if you have sudden, mass dyings close together like this, It is either problems from your water or your food source. So those should be taken into consideration first. It seems pretty rare that at their age, the sudden deaths would be caused by genetic problems. at least in that big of a number
One more thing, how are they seperated? Do you have them all in one tub or? I have mine all individually seperated because I was having a nipping problem. I'd suggest seperating them if you can just in case its some kind of bacterial, viral thing that is killing them off. its better to be safe in my opinion because right now you don't know what is wrong.
