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Baby Axolotl Gender

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Colin Medcroft

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Hi all, I looked over the web but couldn't find anything on how to tell the gender of a baby axolotl, could someone help me with this? I forgot to ask the place i got it if they knew, i got him/her 4 days ago. Thank you!
 
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You'll have to wait until they're around ~9 months old to tell.
They're sexually mature when their toes turn the opposite color of their bodies (for example, leucistics get black toes and melanoids get white toes). You can tell their gender by the size of their cloaca- males' are bigger. Females almost always tend to have rounder bodies, because they carry eggs.
However, there is no foolproof way to tell unless they start to mate with another axie. You may think you have a girl when it is actually a guy haha
 
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Sorry for the late reply!
I think you mean a 9 month axie. Axololts typically grow around one inch per month so a 9 month old would be around 9 inches.
Rates of growth are different for every axie though.
 
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