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matt
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Hi again all,
I've spotted the most enormous golden albino axolotl in the local petshop. (I initially thought it was a tiger salamander.) Before running off to buy it I thought I'd pick some of your expert brains about something I noticed.
It's gills - by which I mean the red, feathery, vascular bits - are minimal to say the least.
It has been suggested to me that this is not - as I again assumed - due to the animal preparing to metamorphose but because it has been kept in a very shallow body of water. Put it in a deeper tank and they will grow back, I was told.
Hoping I am not being lazy in asking you info I could find at Caudate Central if I were to hunt on... but is this plausible?
Cheers,
Matt
I've spotted the most enormous golden albino axolotl in the local petshop. (I initially thought it was a tiger salamander.) Before running off to buy it I thought I'd pick some of your expert brains about something I noticed.
It's gills - by which I mean the red, feathery, vascular bits - are minimal to say the least.
It has been suggested to me that this is not - as I again assumed - due to the animal preparing to metamorphose but because it has been kept in a very shallow body of water. Put it in a deeper tank and they will grow back, I was told.
Hoping I am not being lazy in asking you info I could find at Caudate Central if I were to hunt on... but is this plausible?
Cheers,
Matt