Did my axolotls change sex?

Spacetourettes · Feb 15, 2016

So a little over a week ago my albino laid eggs for the first time. About 4 days ago my golden laid eggs and now my leucistic is laying eggs...how is this possible?!
I (thought) from looking at anatomy pictures of male versus female that I only had one male- the golden. But all 3 are literally laying eggs. I included some pictures so you can see theyre all in different stages of development. What is going on?! Should I keep them separate? Is this normal?

auntiejude · Feb 15, 2016

Axies can't change sex, so you do have at least one male in there. If you post pictures of the adults we can help you.

Spacetourettes · Feb 15, 2016

That's what I thought! But I watched my golden lay eggs so I can't make any sense out of it. I found only one thread about a scientist who studies axolotls for their rejuvenative properties say that one of his females in his tank of female only axies started to lay eggs so I don't know. I'm on mobile so it's really hard to find the link for reference but I will submit it when I get home.

Spacetourettes · Feb 15, 2016

I couldn't copy the direct link in from my phone so I just took screenshots. Does anyone know how to explain this?

Hoagii · Feb 15, 2016

Are you sure your golden was laying eggs and not depositing spermatophores or something? :/ I don't know much about axolotl hanky-panky, but I agree that the golden looks like it may be a boy.

Spacetourettes · Feb 17, 2016

I'm very sure because the things the golden deposited began developing into axolotl babies within a week. I'm at a loss. Im probably mistaking somehow and it's not what it appears to be but I have no answers! I've raised my 3 since they were tiny babies and I know their individual personalities and mannerisms so this situation is just very weird haha.

LSuzuki · Feb 17, 2016

In your pictures, it looks like the leucy is the one that is male, so I'm a bit confused as to the emphasis being on "the golden" laying eggs.

Regardless, it sounds like you have 3 different batches of eggs in a very short period of time and only 3 axolotls.

Can you separate the apparent male from the other two? If "he" lays eggs in the future, then you will definitely have something interesting going on.

Maybe you have a fertile hermaphrodite? It is pretty rare, but given how axolotls deposit spermatophores, it could be possible to self-fertilize.

auntiejude · Feb 18, 2016

The 3rd picture is a male.
What colour were the eggs?

stevenwignet · Feb 21, 2016

Spacetourettes said:
That's what I thought! But I watched my golden lay eggs so I can't make any sense out of it. I found only one thread about a scientist who studies axolotls for their rejuvenative properties say that one of his females in his tank of female only axies started to lay eggs so I don't know. I'm on mobile so it's really hard to find the link for reference but I will submit it when I get home.

the third one is a dwarf male, the other two are females

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