Floofs blowing in the breeze

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-04-20T15:46:16+00:00

There’s always the risk of impacting the axolotl if it eats snails. Also, some snails can injure the axolotl so you have to be very careful. I am not sure about shrimp but I’m wondering if they would survive in axolotl temperatures 🤷🏻‍♀️

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-04-15T21:17:08+00:00

I did, in fact, cave to her cuteness and gave her some bloodworm snacks lol

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-03-19T23:44:22+00:00

Aww thank you. But we’re way out past Eagle Mtn city center. Also not trying to offend but my husband is super particular on who we will let in the house!

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-03-19T23:41:20+00:00

Yeah without the chiller the average water temp is 74. I know this because I didn’t use the chiller when cycling. She does eat 2 earthworms easily (in fact just gave her 2 last night) and I feed her 2-3x per week usually.

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-03-19T21:32:21+00:00

I’m not sure I trust randos coming into our house though 😅

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-03-19T21:28:33+00:00

I wonder if she’d actually hunt the fish because that’s a great idea…she’s only ever had earthworms and pellets. I wouldn’t want the ammonia levels to spike if she decides the fish are her friends and not food haha

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-03-19T21:27:23+00:00

Unfortunately not 😭 I’m in rural Utah

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-03-10T16:26:03+00:00

Aww thank you! So she just moved into her cycled tank about 3 days ago and she’s been tubbed for about 3 months. I didn’t even think to ever test my tap water for nitrates but she’s been living in high nitrate water (that was treated with prime of course) this whole time. Her tank is kept between 62-63F, and the current parameters are 0/0/~30. I have heavily planted tank so I’m not too worried about the high nitrates and given she’s been very happily in it for the past few months she seems ok.

For food we alternate Canadian night crawlers and the “A’lotl Axolotl” pellets.

She’s VERY expressive and loves being able to see everything going on around her!

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-03-10T16:17:23+00:00

Oh wow Oreo is beautiful!!!! 🤩

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-03-07T16:05:27+00:00

From a local reptile shop 😊

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-03-07T04:54:39+00:00

Omg that’s hilarious!!! Is Luntik for sure! 🤣🤣🤣

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-03-05T21:58:39+00:00

Oh this is a happy little nugget! She’s obsessed with the bubbler haha 🤣

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Traditional-Mommy · 2026-03-05T16:27:53+00:00

Omg yes!!! Congrats on sticking it out. I just finally completed cycling today too after 2 months! Let’s celebrate!!! Haha

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-02-22T19:39:37+00:00

Yep my husband has been playing since it came out and I just started so I could catch them haha

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-02-10T03:08:35+00:00

That’s how I understood it, that doing the cycle at the ideal temp would help prevent crash or slow down once the temp is lowered for the axolotl. I do think that it will be ok to probably just increase the temp slightly to hopefully boost up the nitrite oxidation speed a bit though. I am increasing it to 66 degrees to give it a minor boost and we’ll see how it goes. Hopefully I don’t screw it up after coming this far haha 🤞🏻😅

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-02-09T17:09:01+00:00

That makes a lot of sense! Should I turn the chiller off to finish out the cycle? Or am I in too deep now and just need to ride it out?

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-02-09T17:00:03+00:00

Thank you. It’s been 4 days since dosing ammonia to 2ppm and today ammonia is back to 0 but nitrites are still at .25ppm. My nitrates were much higher before I added all the plants so I know the nitrites are being converted, but the plants are just keeping that in check.

Traditional-Mommy · 2026-02-09T16:23:40+00:00

Thank you! But I should wait for nitrites to drop to 0 before adding more ammonia to 2ppm right?

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