What is the biggest you've ever seen?

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So I visited my friend in the next city up and popped into her local pet shop and to my surprise they had a GIGANTIC axolotl.
I know they can grow big but this was huge and I so wish now that I'd taken a picture and you can bet I will when I visit next Wednesday. Id say easily 25cm possibly even 30cm long and 9cm Tall with huge feet. I knew they grew big but is this not a giant?
I so wanted to bring her home, she was a gorgeous wild type!
What is the biggest Axolotl you've ever seen?
 
there's a leucistic one at crystal palace reptiles that most be a foot long and is built like a marrow
 
awwww i wish u had taken a pic id love to see her!
 
7 inches... Wait..Are we talking about axolotls?

Just kidding, but honestly I've never seen one in person. I was shocked when mine came in at 3 inches and were so tiny. They seem so much bigger in pictures and because I was told they get to be 16 inches, I was expecting something huge.
 
LeFarge, marrow would have been the perfect description of this one too lol i was gobsmacked, Im already worrying about what the giant must eat :eek:
Axolotl lvr Ive no doubt she will still be there when I go next Wednesday so pictures will be uploaded when I get home ;) Im kicking myself for not taking any!
imzunicorn my 2 are about 7" now and about 8 month old and thought wow these guys are growing quick at this rate ill be upgrading my tank every few month :confused: then I seen the giant and thought if my 2 grow this big my Mr will have a fit as he is weary of them at this size haha
She was so cool!
 
I currently have two males that are 10 inches tip of nose to tip of tail. My female is only around 7 inches nose to tail and has a much smaller body (when not full of eggs), legs and tail than the mails.

When people give measurements I wonder if they mean nose to vent or nose tip to tail tip. I believe a proper measurement is supposed to be tip of nose/snout to their vent.

I personaly prefer to give a total length that way they sound larger, what man doesnt like to sound larger, I digress sorry.

I am hoping I can grow some of my recent hatches up to be 12-16 inches.
 
Dr0gr1n it was just an estimate and it was from nose tip to tail tip I'm thinking of something to hold in front of the tank to get a scale like a Biro ? It wasn't so much the length but the girth it was just so tall and fat !
 
I have a female that is about 14". She is a BEAST, she's about the size of my forearm. Her tank mate is huge too, probably right around 12".
 
Wowsa Hayden,

Do you have any pictures with something to show scale? Id love to see them!
Id really love my two to grow that big, Can I ask how often and what you feed your girls now they are so big, Ive been thinking about it for days now thinking how big of a worm can I grow haha :rofl:
 
I can try to get a few pics later. I think it was largely genetics, and I got them started on chunks of nightcrawlers at a very young age. Right now, they each eat a nightcrawler once every three days, but I feed my younger ones smaller food once a day. I will be breeding them next season, so it'll be interesting to see if they produce supersized babies.
 
Hi guys I'm afraid I couldn't get the the shop in the next town to get a photo of the giant but I did buy some lovely plants from my local shop for my new tank, I'm about to post a pic on my "new baby's Alice and Milo" thread (in tank set ups I think) if anyone's interested :D
 
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