My Axies

As promised, here are the pics of my baby axies. Taking pictures through the glass was a bit of a challenge. I'm going to get my friend to come over with his camera, he has a lense specifically for this purpose, and a much better camera than mine. Also, apparently the Melanoid axies have an ability that makes sure that your camera will not focus on them correctly. I could NOT get a good picture of mine.

Heres the Albino


and the Gold


and the Melanoid


and, just because she was being a ham while I was taking pics of the axies, hers my Dragon, Artemis

the dragon pic didn't work, so here she is again

awww all so cute! like the dragon.it a bearded dragon??? we used to have one of them at college but it got something wrong with its liver and had jaundice and died over the summer hols!poor beardy.that what he was called!

Very nice Brian! I like the little black one even if it is hard to take pictures of. I too find it hard to take pictures through the glass, for every one that turns out 25 more are "erased".

Yeah, shes a Bearded Dragon

That's a spooky dragon - she looks like she's about to turn around and get me! . Nice looking axies - keep trying to get those photos.

LOL! She's just being a goof. She's pretty friendly, and very inquisitive. She's next to the axies, and she's been staring into their tank since Sunday.

I'm going to try and get some better pics over the next few days, so I'll post them here. I think the problem with the melanoid is that it is so dark, it blends with the gravel, and my camera is having trouble distinguishing between them. To get pics of it, I may have to put it in a tupperware tub on a white background.

I put some bloodworms in their tank, and they went nuts for them. I think the word "feeding frenzy" would best describe their reaction. They weren't so much interested in the shrimp pellets though. I also noticed the gold one eat a small snail (you know, the annoying little ones that come in with live plants?). Is this safe for ones this small? are they going to be able to handle the little shells?

(Message edited by brian on April 19, 2005)

Brian - I too have a snail eater - Jude. I too was worried that the shells would not be digestible. But I see partially digested snail shells in the poo.

I have red ramshorn, pond and malaysian trumpet snails in the tank. Malaysian trumpet snails have a super hard shell.

Jude has eaten every snail that is of snackable size. The only snails I see now are the tiny baby snails on the glass.

My axolotl was however bigger than your larvae when it started eating snails. I am not sure if that will make a difference or not. I would think in the wild they would encounter and eat snails.

I just fed them bloodworms again. They are not getting the idea of the bowl I'm feeding them out of. Got some decent pics of the Melanoid during feeding time though. You can see the missing feet and the chunk missing from his tail in the last one. Poor little guy! All the wounds have already closed though.