Different breeds breeding?

Hi,

Just wondering if different species of axie can breed. I was going to get a new white one with my wild type (Ray), I was just wondering if they might 'hit it off'?

they will all interbreed as it is just colour variations.
doesnt neccessarily mean they will though.

There is only one species of axolotl - Ambystoma Mexicanum.
However they will interbreed with any of the other Ambystoma species generaly resulting in a Morphed axy, and therefore not really an axolotl at alll.

If memory serves me correct we have lots of different coloured ones due to a ?Neotic? Tiger Salamanders genes been introduced.

russell said:

There is only one species of axolotl - Ambystoma Mexicanum.
However they will interbreed with any of the other Ambystoma species generaly resulting in a Morphed axy, and therefore not really an axolotl at alll.

If memory serves me correct we have lots of different coloured ones due to a ?Neotic? Tiger Salamanders genes been introduced.

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Hi russel,

Not all species of the Ambystoma-complex will interbreed because they are more or less closely related to each other (genetically).
Apart from that there may be a practical problem since some of them mate in the water, some do not.

Nevertheless, there are quite some Ambystoma that are able to breed with each other.

As for axolotls - it does not make a difference what colour they are, as far as there is a male and a female and they "like" each other. You might be surprised, what colours can result from a mating of two axolotls.

The albino-comlex in A. mexicanum (Axolotl) was introduced by an experiment of Humphrey in the late 60s (I do not know the year right now). In this experiment he artificially "mated" an Axolotl with a Tigersalamander and the tiger was albino, but not neotenic.