axolotl anxiety

Hex is moving to his new tank! He got into the moving tub with a minimum of upset, and he's hanging out in it while it floats in the new water. I've put his old tank lid over the top of the tub in case he gets a wild, um, melanophore and starts leaping around, not that he does that a whole lot.

But I am so worried that the new tank (washed many times) or the bucket (I think fine?) or the new sand (felt soapy until I washed it many times) will be inimical to axolotl friends. Probably I have been sufficiently paranoid. So far if anything he seems to think there is food on the way. :)