Illness/Sickness: 5 Legged golden axolotl

[ChrisCook18]

Evening all,

I've been very busy these past few days and got my andersonis, but I also rescued a nice little golden axolotl. I just realized and noticed today that he has 5 legs... four normal legs, and then one underneath his jaw. I took a picture, I had to take him out of the tank to get some sort of picture of it, so I was wondering what everyone thought, is it a mutation or sign of disease :S Here's the pic.. let me know your thoughts.

 

[xxianxx]

Axolotls are very good at regenerating body parts, however thay are not always regenerated in the right spot . Additional limbs are quite common, a bite injury can lead to an extra limb being grown.

 

[NeekaLovesYou]

As Ian said it's not uncommon. Damaged limbs can grow back with odd toes, pointing in the wrong direction or even, like in this little ones case, grow one extra in the wrong place! It's nothing to worry about.

 

[Olivia97]

My axie has a toe that goes upwards