Finally got my lotls!!!!!!

Finally got my two lotls! they wernt the ones id hoped for (the piebald ones from college...u know the ones...you've seen the pics.lol.). but the ones i did get from college are still as cute!!! one is leucistic and around 6+ inches and the other is black (melanoid is the word i think...correct me if im totally wrong) and it is 7+ inches! these sizes are a very very rough estimate coz i havent measured them yet with a ruler. i will tomorrow night coz im going to my boyfriends where they are kept. they are still without names. i thought marilyn for the leucistic and manson for the melanoid. but im sure the leucistic is male because of the slightly swollen cloaca and it is more slender and i think the melanoid is female because i cant recall a swelling and im sure she was much broader than the leucistic. but if it turns out they are the opposite to what i thought then ill call them marilyn and manson (leucistic marilyn coz marilyn monroe she was really white and its part of marilyn manson...and melanoid would be called manson because marilyn manson is a goth and they dress in black clothes)lol.but im sure the lecistic is male so i wont be able to use them names.hehe.wish me luck on thinking of names for them.

my boyfriend fed them tonight while we spoke on the phone and he didnt know how they went for the food so he kinda got a teeny bit of a shock when it launched itself at his hand!!! was soooo funny!but they both ate their worms.melanoid maybe a lil more womr than the other because he is greedy!!! hehe. here is a pic...

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Cute fat little axolotls Claire

The dark one looks like the light ones shadow lol great picture!

Congrats on your new axolotls.

thank you . i get to see them again in about 2 hours so im looking forward to that! hehe. then ill have more pics of them esp the melanoid coz 'she' was shy when i 1st got 'her'. apparantly 'she' is always at the front of the tank looking out for food.bless 'her'. ill also get pics of them where you can see their cloaca and everyone can tell me what they think their sexes are if its possible.

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This is Gretchen. how cute is she? the answer is VERY! lol.

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hope you enjoy all the pics! couldnt put them all in one post because they were too big. but as you may have gathered the male (leucistic) is called Gustav and the female is called Gretchen...

oh and by the way.... Gretchen is a freak axie! she has an extra toe on one of her front feet and on one of her back feet she has a toe growing from another toe! lol. she is shy no more! she loves the camera. Gustav is quite moody at times! he just hides in his pot or in the corner. hehe!

enjoy.

I like the markings down Gustavs face he does kind of look scary in that picture!

I had some axolotls with extra toes and one even an extra leg that grew out of the elbow of its front leg. The extra leg went up in the air. When he walked it looked like he was waving... I loved him so

I also had one that had two feet on the end of one leg.

I do enjoy a good mutant.

WOW!!! lol. hopefully mine will breed in the next 2 years or so.hope i have mutant lotls when i do though! hehe.

mine has one very long toe much bigger then the rest of its toes it looks funny lol

lol.oh the names we could call our freaky axies!hehe.

I was thinking that anyone could breed a mutant axie that has TWO heads! That was in my dreams that I had a twin headed melanoid axie.

lol.cool.i would love to have one of them axies that have the head of a melanoid and the body of a leucistic. they are soooo cool!

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I was thinking that anyone could breed a mutant axie that has TWO heads! That was in my dreams that I had a twin headed melanoid axie.

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It would have to be a chimera fluke, as dual headedness occurs when two different embryos fuse together during early development. Axolotls usually produce perfect chimeras, without the extra limbs. So in a two headed axolotl, each head would actually be from a different animal, but most axolotl chimeras can only be identified by different growth rates on one side of the body, or a mottled, piebald look. Sometimes the gills or legs won't match.