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Rampant male axolotls!

Woodlington

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I have two big male Axolotls. They've gone loopy this afternoon butting each other with their heads, waving tails in the air exposing swollen red bits and depositing little packages everywhere! LOL

Questions ... are they likely to injure themselves/each other? Will this last long or happen very often? Is it OK to keep them in together when they get like this? They're about a year and a half old, is it an age thing or has something else set them off?

They've calmed down a lot and eaten some prawns (couldn't distract them before!). I kind of thought they'd only get like this if there was a female around?
 

Kaysie

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Haha! My males used to do that too. I had 3 brothers, and they'd be fine for months until just one day, I'd wake up to 50 spermatophores all over the tank. I never had a female in with them either.

They should be fine together, as long as you have a big enough tank that they have enough space and hides to get away from each other.
 

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I've just been syphoning the tank out LOL ... So they'll just do this now and again then poor things. I thought they'd done some damage at first when I saw the bright red colouration, then realised what was going on! You learn something new every day hey?! :)
 

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Poor guys. Why don't you trade one of your males for a female and let nature do what she wants to do ?

I mean, there is no harm having just males... but it would be so much nicer to see real matings ;) and eggs (which you can just leave there if you don't want to raise any babies !).
 
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