A client has just purchased their first axolotl and is unsure how to properly care for it. As a veterinary technician, your role is to provide thorough client education. The client has asked you the following question:  “What water conditions should I maintain for my axolotl?”  Provide client education on how to properly maintain the aquarium environment for their animal. You must include at least 2 correct water quality parameters these animals need in your education.  

Explain how and why the previous question (a published VTNE practice question) regarding a sick hamster is worded incorrectly. 

As desert species’, gerbils utilize tail extension & contraction for thermoregulation. Match the appropriate voluntary action to the temperature extreme it is preventing and the physiologic response of the body.  

Organisms which absorb carbolfuschin and are not easily decolorized by acid alcohol are referred most likely??    

List the Five I’s of studying microorganisms                                                                          

Staining with acidic dyes like nigrosin?? 

Heat (steam) is required to make some target structures permeable to the primary stain. Therefore, heat acts as a _____?    

List one example of a basic dye                         _________________

Counterstains have contrasting color to the primary stain.  

This question has two parts: 1. List any characteristic of  normal microbiota    2.  How is an opportunistic pathogen different from a true pathogen?