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Age and sexing my axie

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Dicranurus

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Dear all,
I bought my axie 3 months ago from a pet shop. They told me that she's a female but I would like to have your opinion about sex ;) I named her Cassandra but if he's a boy a should change her/his name ;) I don't know the age. She's 17,5-18 cm long and she has black toe tips so she should be sexually mature. Please let me know what do you think about her/him :p

Thanks a lot :D:angel:
 

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First of all, dark toe tips are NOT a sign of sexual maturity - they are just a sign of dark toe tips.

At 18cm/7" it is not quite big enough to sex accurately, so I don't know how someone sold you a 'female' 3 months ago. You need to wait until s/he is 20-22cm/8" to be sure, and we need clearer pictures to make an accurate determination.
 
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Thanks a lor for your answer auntiejude. I have no idea how someone sold me a 'female' 3 months ago...It's my first axolotl. I just saw that this pet shop was keeping an axolotl in bad conditions so I decided to buy it because I wanted to save him/her from a more or less certain death. So I started collecting information about this species only after buying it.

What kind of photos would you need in order to make an accurate determination? Simply of better quality or of specific parts?
 
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Have you got a proper camera? Your side-on shot looks a little grainy, as if it was taken with a phone camera. Don't be afraid to use the flash. You have the right shots, but the quality isn't really good enough to see clearly.

Incidentally it is not really recommended that you 'rescue' an axie from a poor quality set up in a pet shop - all the owner will do now is get another axie and mistreat that one too. I know it sounds wicked, but if a pet shop owner has pets that die because he's not looking after them and they don't sell, he'll stop getting them in.
 
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It's so hard to tell when you really are not sure what your looking for
It's a good looking animal anyway though :) whether it's pretty or handsome
 
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