In the wild, axolotls face introduced fish, water birds, and a few native hunters in their Xochimilco home. The biggest threat by far is...
The honest default is solo housing. Axolotls eat any tank-mate they can swallow, fish nip at their feathery gill filaments, and tropical fish need...
No, axolotls cannot live out of water. They are obligate aquatic neotenic salamanders that depend on water for skin-based respiration, gill function, and skin...
You sex an axolotl mainly by its cloaca, the area behind the back legs. A mature male shows a clear lateral bulge there, while...
A missed meal is rarely an emergency, but more than 72 hours of refusal is a medical concern. The eight-cause matrix covers water quality,...
Axolotl tank water should hold temperature at 60 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit, pH between 6.5 and 8.0, ammonia and nitrite at 0 ppm, nitrate...
Axolotls regenerate limbs, gills, tail, sections of spinal cord, portions of brain and heart through a blastema-driven process anchored in their paedomorphic neoteny biology....
Fungal infections on axolotls present as three-dimensional white cotton-like tufts on gills, skin, or wound sites. Bacterial infections look flat and slimy by contrast....
Cycling an axolotl tank grows the bacterial colony that converts the animal's toxic ammonia waste into nitrate before the axolotl ever enters the water....
The body-width rule sizes axolotl meals. Each food item should be no wider than the distance between the eyes. Total meal volume should leave...