Video of a few axolotls

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Here is a short (very low quality) video of a few of my axolotls. This is the living room, the rest are in the garage and basement.

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Might I recommend chrome shelving? Haha, seems like there is a space issue.
 
Holy Moly 0.0

Just a few!!!! Oh my o_O

If thought about raising a litter of lotls lol
But seeing that has just seriously made me rethink that concept >_< that's a lot of babies! How many (roughly) have you got in that batch in the video?





<3 >o_o< <3
 
I'm sure I can still see a little bit of floor space left to fill! Must be a full time job cleaning and feeding that lot but hey hat's off to you.


Regards Neil
 
Nikki71 said:
How many (roughly) have you got in that batch in the video?
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The two tubs with plants have about 600 hatchlings, there are about 600-800 more that are still on brineshrimp (they're the tiny larvae) and there are hundreds of juveniles around 1.5-2 inches long. I can never get an exact count. There are also a couple hundred more larvae through large juveniles in the basement and garage.
 
Neil C said:
I'm sure I can still see a little bit of floor space left to fill! Must be a full time job cleaning and feeding that lot but hey hat's off to you.


Regards Neil
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Oh there is still plenty of floor space to fill! This is only half the living room, there was no point in getting a shot of the empty half in there. I keep some of them on shelves (so visitors don't fall into my nursery) but for the sake of the video I spread them on the floor.
 
What are you going to do with all of them? And just out of curiosity, how do you feed all of them? Haha. That is a lot of babies and amazing. :)
 
froggybabe04 said:
What are you going to do with all of them? And just out of curiosity, how do you feed all of them? Haha. That is a lot of babies and amazing. :)
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I share them with the masses.

To feed them all I thaw out a quarter pound of frozen blood worms and distribute them with a turkey baster. After they've snacked on the blood worms for about an hour I pull a quarter pound of live California black worms out of the fridge and distribute them by hand to all of the tubs. I do that every night. With the small larvae I feed a mix of live, freshly hatched brine shrimp and finely chopped live black worms.
 
holyyy ...lol you have ALOT of them...didnt think it was possible to have that many...so the two that I got from you is just like .0000000001% of your total population lol...must be a lot of food but i bet its worth it...you should breed more different newts like alpines..and marbled newts for me :)
 
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