Match your travel plan to your trip length. A healthy adult axolotl can be left alone for a long weekend, a fasting adult tolerates...
Most axolotl losses come from a short list of avoidable beginner mistakes: warm water, an uncycled tank, gravel substrate, strong filter flow, the wrong...
A good axolotl log records temperature and feeding response every day, the six core water parameters every week, and weight, length, and gill condition...
A power outage threatens an axolotl in two ways. The filter stops, so oxygen drops and ammonia starts to build. In warm weather the...
An axolotl is a cheap animal to buy and a moderate animal to keep. The pet itself runs about $20 to $70 for a...
A GFP axolotl carries a jellyfish gene that makes its tissues glow green under blue or UV light. GFP stands for green fluorescent protein....
Newly hatched axolotl larvae measure about 10 to 13 mm, carry no legs, and live off a yolk sac for the first day or...
You sex an axolotl mainly by its cloaca, the area behind the back legs. A mature male shows a clear lateral bulge there, while...
Caring for axolotl eggs means moving the clutch into a clean, shallow, dechlorinated container away from the parents, holding it at a steady 16...
Axolotls eat each other because of a movement-triggered suction reflex, not aggression. Their poor eyesight means a tank mate's gill or toe reads the...