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I'm just not sure which sex one of my axies is, all the others are obviously girls, but I'm not sure about this one. Please help!
 

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Darn! It's about 23cms, hasn't grown at all over the last wee while. Its getting around a year old but I can't be certain. It was a good 12+ cms when I got it, back in lateMay - June last year. It's the largest of my axolotls.
What rotten luck that 4/4 axies are females :(
Do you think its a definite female or just possibly?
 
At that size and age it's a pretty sure thing. I can't get the picture to enlarge so I can get a real good look but it definitely looks female to me.

Are your other females the same age?
 
They are all around the same, a few months between them, but the one in the picture grew the fastest and is the largest.
All the others have fairly flat cloacas (is that right?) so I got quite hopeful that this one may be a boy. :( It's ironic because I refer to my axies as "my boys".
There goes my hopes of breeding them out the window.
 
In a tank full of females I would expect the cloaca to be really bugling if it were male.
 
Ah well, thanks anyway. It's better to know than patiently wait for spermatophores that will never come. Thanks again
 
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