Is this tank OK for one Axolotl

[sammie68]

Hi JATM,

I think the snails you might be seeing are on the background picture I use on the outside of the tank. As far as I know there are no snails in there, unless their hiding where I can't see them lol. I like them to, I had them in the goldfish tank and they looked great and did a wonderful job until they started to breed out of control lol.

 

[sammie68]

I think this is a very important post, and it doesnt really have to be about this specific case but more in a general sense, regarding ALL members here on our forums. A few times too often i find that the tone is way too harsh on these boards , even when meaning well. We need to be supportive towards our newer members, rather than driving them off.

Just to clarify, I have found every reply to my question helpful and supportive and have in noway taken offense to anything that has been written. Once again thank you each and every one for your help. As a new axolotl owner I am going to be asking lots of tedious and probably pointless questions, so as far as I can gather anyone who takes the time to reply :talker: - is going to be a bonus in my books lol.

 

[cml]

I was in no sense refferring to this thread, I just think we all are a little quick to jump on people regarding mainly the horrible and unforgivable gravel, and then tank size. Explaining in a nice way will help our new members and help our forum keeping a nice growth

Carson I wasnt trying to tell you that you were to harsh, my appologies is you took it so.

And as for not being able to convey tone in text, that is completely wrong (whats the tone here )? You can write with a colloquial tone, a formal tone, an angry tone or even with a nice tone! There would be no litterature or poems if we couldnt convey feelings, tones and meaning with text.
What CAN go wrong is the communication with text. Sender - Text - Reciever, but now im side trailing...

 

[sammie68]

I was in no sense refferring to this thread, I just think we all are a little quick to jump on people regarding mainly the horrible and unforgivable gravel, and then tank size. Explaining in a nice way will help our new members and help our forum keeping a nice growth

Agreed !!:happy:

 

[Jake]

true, but we're not talking about someone keeping axolotls for scientific study. We're talking about hobbyist's for whom it would be impractical, or just plain annoying to do daily waterchanges on a tank. So while I never said it wasn't possible to keep axolotls in less than 5 gallons, I don't advise it for hobbyists.

I am a hobbyist and do regular water changes on all of my axolotl tanks. Daily changes are not necessary unless they are being fed something like brineshrimp which die and foul the water quckly. It takes 5 minutes to do a 50% water change on a 10 gallon tank, if that is too much time for someone to spend on their pet's well being every few days or a week, then maybe they should get a pet rock...

 

[theJATM]

Hi JATM,

I think the snails you might be seeing are on the background picture I use on the outside of the tank. As far as I know there are no snails in there, unless their hiding where I can't see them lol. I like them to, I had them in the goldfish tank and they looked great and did a wonderful job until they started to breed out of control lol.

i thought i saw a stripped one in the lower left of the third picture. but i could be wrong, ive been wrong before.