New Axolotl

[Horsy]

Just bought a new Axolotl today. He's currently sitting in his hide, watching the fish in the tank next to his. He's albino and named Chucky. Can't get any photos as I have no camera. He likes me (well associates me with food) as I've been looking after him at the petshop for the past 3 weeks and finalyl decided I might as well just buy him.

[Australis]

Amazing.......

[PhilK]

Very cool. They're weird little things.. What do they eat?

[Spikie wanna cricket]

i feed mine crickets he loves them

[Helikaon]

Originally Posted by Horsy

Just bought a new Axolotl today. He's currently sitting in his hide, watching the fish in the tank next to his. He's albino and named Chucky. Can't get any photos as I have no camera. He likes me (well associates me with food) as I've been looking after him at the petshop for the past 3 weeks and finalyl decided I might as well just buy him.

hahah yeah i was in a aqarium today and i was considerign buying one but then relised i have no room left. hahaha theya re very cool, my old one used to eat blood worms and small fish and earth worms, the are awesomes!! congratts on the new family member

[luke.r.s]

Originally Posted by Helikaon

hahah yeah i was in a aqarium today and i was considerign buying one but then relised i have no room left. hahaha theya re very cool, my old one used to eat blood worms and small fish and earth worms, the are awesomes!! congratts on the new family member

yes you have no room - tho i think their was a spare 4 inchs (time for geckos?)

i love the axolotl i always hassled my parents for one and would have a look at them first when i went passed a pet shop. will be getting one (fingers crossed) when i work out where im going to be next yr

[Tirilia]

I was considering getting one also but then I realized how expensive their set up would be, how you cant have any other fish (or snails, or another ax. or anything living basically) in there with them.. And the mess they make, their feeding habits... And the fact you cant cuddle or play with it, just look at it. So I switched to Blue Tongues

[Helikaon]

Originally Posted by luke.r.s

yes you have no room - tho i think their was a spare 4 inchs (time for geckos?)

i love the axolotl i always hassled my parents for one and would have a look at them first when i went passed a pet shop. will be getting one (fingers crossed) when i work out where im going to be next yr

hahah you give me gekoes and i'll make room lol hahah yeah but i will be finding a bigger house soon **** yeah. then i can get more and more and more and more mwuahahahahah

[Horsy]

Mine feeds on Beef Heart. I know alot of people who have had problems getting them feeding because they are all such picky eaters and it can sometimes take a while to find that one thing they'll always eat. His is Beef Heart; he doesn't like alot of other food. I will try him over live brine shrimp and things like that soon enough and will, of course, try to get some photos!

[addy]

You know mexican walking fish are pretty much blind?! i used to have some, lots of fun., i had to give them away in the end....

Anyway good luck with them, apparently in the right enviroment they will turn into salamandas

[beesagtig]

I thought it was illegal to purposefully turn them into salamandas

[Leigh]

you can add chemicals etc to the water to make them change to salamanders. as for food i used to feed mine small cubes of beef, but in the end one cube was apparently too big, and he choked, the poor guy. it did mess the water up a bit though, the beef that is. and i even took him out and let him walk around briefly every now and then.

[Helikaon]

Originally Posted by addy

You know mexican walking fish are pretty much blind?! i used to have some, lots of fun., i had to give them away in the end....

Anyway good luck with them, apparently in the right enviroment they will turn into salamandas

yes i ahve always wanted to try to get salamandas its odd because these guys can reproduce in their lavae stage so most will never even turn into salamandas. but yes i would love to give it a try

[addy]

illegal to let them turn to salamanda...never heard that one before. Be like having a pet catapilla that you had to kill as soon as it made a cacoon.

[PhilK]

OK everyone it's salamander hahaha. But yeah, the adult stage is almost evolutionarily redundant, because they can reproduce in the larval stage.. Very weird.