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Male Axolotls Now Eggs?

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Axolotl Eggs, Larvae & Breeding Eggs everywhere, how did that happen? Will it be albino or wildtype?

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Hey guys,

Well about a month ago now I bought a black axolotl and hes VERY close to my white axolotl and they get very kissy-like. They are both males, there's no doubt in that, but tonight, my mum said she seen them acting crazy and there were four like eggs in the tank. I just went in there and there are two big egg like things in the tank now, clear and then white in the middle.

Is it possible that males can have eggs? Probably a crazy question but I've never seen anything like this.

Thanks for any help.
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does it look like one of these pics?
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I don't think the answer you need is whether males can have eggs (because they cannot) but rather that you do not have two males. if they are indeed eggs then one of your boys is a girl...
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does it look like one of these pics?
The first one they looked like. They're all gone now. There were only a few and they were swimming crazily through the tank so they were scattered over the rock. I just don't understand it. They both look like they're males. . . I've seen females before.

If it happens again, can I catch the eggs and put them into a floating tank? There are no other tanks I could put my axies in.

Thank you for your help. :)
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If you think they looked like the first example picture posted above than theyre packets of sperm, or "spermatophores" as they're also known which are of course used to impregnate females. Being as you have two males I would of thought that ofcourse it's possible to see them in the tank occasionally but I couldn't tell you why as there's no female! They're certainly not eggs and there won't be any babies without a female.

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Males are opportunistic breeders. Sperm is biologically cheap to manufacture, so they'll drop a spermatophore if there's even the slightest inkling that a female might just drop by for a visit. If you have multiple males, they'll get into 'dropping competitions'; "if the neighbor is going to mate, I better get ready just in case she likes me more!"
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yee everyone kinda covored it :) its sperm dont touch it lol that would be gross
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It's no more gross than anything else that comes out a cloaca. They should be removed like any other waste product in a tank.
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