Quote Originally Posted by Reggie View Post
I'm not sure what axolotl has do to with tropical fish keeping. They are not fish nor are they tropical.
Keeping an axolotl is very similar to tropical fish keeping....or well, any fish keeping whether fresh, cold, salt, brackish etc.

It is about maintaining a healthy aquatic living environment revolving around the needs of your aquatic pet. If you have a fair hand in fish keeping, then you know the importance of a clean and cycled living area, the importance of appropriate temperature for the specific species you are keeping (For instance, tropical fish need to be kept at higher temperatures than say coldwater fish for their health - a person keeping tropical fish monitors their temperature to make sure it stays at the proper elevation where as an axolotl keeper monitors their temperature to make sure it stays low. ).

So I think that some of the best African Clawed and Dwarf Frog keepers and Axolotl keepers are people who have been truly keeping fish for a period of time (I say truly as in they understand what a filter does, why it is important, and how vital it is to stable water chemistry). They understand how important and time consuming (at least at set up) a maintained and cycled filter can be.