Lexi's Lotls

10/05/2020

30/04/2020

More eggs! Magical looking.

27/04/2020

Mom and dad guarding their eggs together ❤

29/03/2020

It's really hard to see in pics but babies started budding their arms. As soon as they grow front and back legs and are eating frozen blood worms they will be ready to go!

29/03/2020

11/03/2020

Spent hours last night setting up shop. Babies were starting to nip at each others gills, so it was time to seperate. This is where the real work comes into play. 100% water changes every single day after feeding.

06/03/2020

If you are interested in getting one of these guys I have available. Here's what you need:

*note- nothing should go in their thanks smaller then their head. They will swallow it and it will cause them great discomfort and most likely impaction which leads to death.

For food- either frozen blood worm cubes (can get at any petstore), European red wigglers, or cut up earthworms (both you can buy at local bait shop) you can get sinking salamander pellets too but do your own research if that's what you chose to do. I dont prefer them, I like the more fresh food for them its healthier.

Aquarium (20 gal per axolotl)

Ph test kit or strips (need to be able to test for nitrites, nitrates, hardness, alkalinity, & pH)

Stress + Coat (makes tap water safe, removes chlorine and chloramines and detoxifies heavy metals, protects axolotl slime coat)

Good filter (they produce alot of waste and more waste = more toxins/ammonia in the water which is very bad for any type of aquatic animal)

A Hide (anything they can fit in and hide in)

A lid for the aquarium (no lights, they dont have eyelids to protect their eyes)

OPTIONAL to make them super happy and comfortable-

Plants (they love using plants to levetate and chill on)

Substrate needs to either be bare bottom or aquarium safe sand. Absolutely NO GRAVEL & NO PEBBLES (it will kill them from impaction)

They LOVE live aquatic plants, I use marimo moss balls (Anubias Isabelle - very tough, taller than the Nana. Anubias Barteri - just like the Nana, but a bit bigger and with rounder leaves. Java Fern - one of the toughest aquatic plants you can get - grows anywhere! Java Moss - grows anywhere as well, can be made into a sort-of a carpet)

-Basically any decoration that is safe for aquariums and not smaller then their heads will do just fine

For the initial set up depending on where you shop and what deals you find you're looking at about $100-$150 (online always has the best deals). Then monthly maintenance probably about $10-$30 depending on what you need that month.

06/03/2020

These are the types (morphs)

Wild-Type: Mottled green with bright eyes purple gills.

Albino: White/pale pink with clear/pink eyes and red gills.

Melanoid: Black/dark grey with black eyes and dark gills.

Leucistic: White/pink with dark eyes and bright red gills.

Golden Albino: Golden with pink/orange eyes, bright red/pink gills.

Copper: Copper with dark eyes, bright red/pink gills.

GFP: Sometimes, a recessive gene called Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) may be present, causing axolotls to glow green under black lighting.

06/03/2020

Pics of mom and dad (dad is golden albino with no pigment in eyes & mom is gfp leucistic pigment in her eyes)

06/03/2020

Babies; golden albinos, gfp wild types

06/03/2020

Hello everyone😁 welcome to my Axolotl care & information page. Axolotls (ak·suh·laa·tl) are a critically endangered species of Salamander🦎 that hail from one lake in Mexico. They are endangered from our pollution😔 Unlike other salamanders, they never leave their larval stage and do not morph onto land. One of the coolest things about them is their ability to regenerate any body part whether it be an organ or a limb, brain🧠, heart❤, you name it. No other creature on earth can do regeneration to this extent. Scientists👨‍🔬 are baffled and hope that with further study👩‍🏫 we can learn how these magical little creatures do what they do so we could use it to our advantage and learn how we humans can too regenerate ANY damaged body part🦴. I mean think of the possibilities. BUT with them going endangered due to our mess up, if they go extinct then how are we going to learn about this beautiful creature and their abilities. So now it's our job to save them. To put the icing on the cake🎂 they make a wonderful pet. They like to watch you like you watch them👀. They do magic tricks like levetate in mid water (this cracks me up the most) They get to be a bout 8-12 inches, they usually only bite if you put your hand✋ in front of their faces while feeding and they dont have teeth🚫🦷 so it doesn't hurt at all just scares you more then anything because they are so quick haha. Overall just a crazy cool animal. So with this page I'm going to be posting pictures🎞 and videos🎬 of the babies (available) and their parents (not available lol). I'm going to be posting information on them to educate on what they require to thrive, care sheet, water parameters and behavior, everything you need to know. This is my first time doing this so bare with me lol. Thanks if you took the time to read and check out my page❤