Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Axolotl- the final project

The story:
  • Lake Xochimilco then and now
  • What can we learn from this?
The four cs:
  • Cold Water
  • Clean Water
  • Calm Water
  • deChlorinated Water
The Right Filter:
  • Use a sponge filter to keep the water from moving to much


Food!:
  • Axolotls can smell their food
  • It should be soft and sink
  • I don't use live food
  • No bait worms or outside sources of food
  • Blood worms, newt and salamander food, and river shrimp are good food.
Aquarium Friends:
  • Ghost shrimp
  • Snails
  • No other fish
  • Other Axolotls
Problems:
  • Use big gravel 
  • use big gravel or none
  • Gill infection 
  • water too warm- put in fridge
  • Missing limb-
  • put in fridge