Turtle Person learns to love the Axolotl

Hello, I'm new here, I have some experience with reptiles and amphibians, but truth be told my main focus has been on TURTLES (have RES & Eastern box). The RES was what started it ALL and NOW I have moved into FROGS (I have WTF and a Pixie--separate of course!) My limited experience with newts & salamanders was a wild caught (oops!) newt (species???) that I captured on a camping trip as a kid and a couple of Firebelly Newts I kept as a teenager. Recently though I have become VERY interested in getting an Axolotl and have been lurking here and there doing research and checking out the classified here. Now I have encountered my first problem. I live in New Jersey. I noticed the in many of the ads selling Axolotls it says : NO CA, NO NJ. :crazy: Are axolotls illegal here? I searched it on Google and didn't find anything. I'm not giving up that easily!

Hi and welcome! I also have RES and a pixie among my critters. My pixie is without a doubt my favorite frog - just so voracious!

I understand your intrigue with the axolotls and wish I had more positive news, but my only suggestion for you is to consider changing states. Axolotls are indeed illegal in NJ as well as CA. Look on page 5 HERE for more information.

dragonlady said:

Hi and welcome! I also have RES and a pixie among my critters. My pixie is without a doubt my favorite frog - just so voracious!

I understand your intrigue with the axolotls and wish I had more positive news, but my only suggestion for you is to consider changing states. Axolotls are indeed illegal in NJ as well as CA. Look on page 5 HERE for more information.

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New Jersey has got to be the WORST state for Herp enthusiasts. Fish and Wildlife has some crazy laws here about turtles and tortoises, They even have a law that I can't have a Quaker Parakeet! I'm just curious, do you know their reason for not letting us have Axolotls?

And I just got done feeding Francis my pixie frog. Voracious is a good word I added a pic of him to my profile. He's a good size male and still growing.

I'm sorry, I don't know. I'm sure they deem it as some sort of possible threat to the native species. I would like to have an African Clawed Frog but not allowed to have one in VA for that reason.

Saw Francis, he's awesome! I have mine in an album on my profile page. His name is Phat B*st*rd - heehee. Mine is about the size of a softball. Take care, Shannon

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