Question: Question about leaving young axolotl for short periods

HI,
I posted some questions on here earlier today, thanks for the responses so far.

Now for another, In a nutshell I am planning to house an Axie in a tank in a school classroom soon.

I'm planning to get the Axie from the website exoticpets.co.uk - they seem fairly reputable. I really love the look of the golden axies which the website says will be 5 - 10 cm on delivery.

At this size I'm guessing it's still fairly young, will it be ok to leave over the weekend? The tank I'm going to set up for him/her I plan to add daphnia, scuds, oligchate, small snails like ramshorns etc while cycling for a few weeks before I get the axie in so while I'm not around there should be a fair amount for the little chap(pete) to hunt .

The axie will be fed daily during the week and furthermore the classroom is air conditioned meaning I can drop the temp down to 14C quite easily over the weekend.

Is all this enough or will it be advisable to keep the little fella at home in a smaller tank while he grows a bit?

Thanks :happy:

I think I would keep an axolotl of that size at home till it is a bit bigger. At approx 5cm it'll need feeding at least daily ( in my humble opinion!!). Having said this, they do grow before your eyes at this stage . Keeping it at home will give you a chance to get to know it better and to get the feeding established.

I would recommend an adult axie for the classroom tank. As Julia mentioned, very young axies are more high maintenance and require frequent feeding. Subsequently, more feeding can also result in more wastes and detritus that in turn, require more cleaning and water changes. It might be less practical in a classroom environment. Try aiming for a juvenile / young adult. I think that would be ideal.

I highly recommend exoticpets.co.uk as I got my lil fella from there also! I'm not sure if they have golden Axolotl's however - wild types and white I think.

You can buy slightly larger Axolotls from there also, if this helps, since the responses seem to suggest that smaller, younger Axolotls need greater attention so wouldn't be suited to leaving for too long.
Good luck :happy: