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Baby lotls💜

Zilla Havens

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Ohhhhh okay 🙈 well thank you!! hahaha we are very new to this…. We’ve had them for a couple of years now but still learning😉☺️… thank you for letting me know💜 whoops 😬
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I really want to learn more about these amazing lil creatures … we sure love them 😉 their different personalities are precious! To be honest these babies were not planned lol
 

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No worries! You're doing a great job for a beginner since they all look healthy. The one with a single eye is interesting because I can see an eye shape if you look closely but no developed pupil. Keep us posted for sure. Either a one eyed lotl or a mosaic possibly.
I sure will! And thank you so much for explaining those terms to me. Someone else asked that wants to buy some of them and I gave them the same answer🙈 oops! Lol
 

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Is Zilla older? Some Lucys will turn yellow over time due to the accumulation of riboflavin in their diet.
 

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Is Zilla older? Some Lucys will turn yellow over time due to the accumulation of riboflavin in their diet.
He’s about 2 years old now… we got him as a young baby💜
That makes sense …. He will only eat live black worms 🙄… we’ve tried other things but he seems to be kinda snobby 😉 and possibly a bit spoiled! 😉
 

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He’s about 2 years old now… we got him as a young baby💜
That makes sense …. He will only eat live black worms 🙄… we’ve tried other things but he seems to be kinda snobby 😉 and possibly a bit spoiled! 😉
He eats A LOT! I’m sure another diet would be more filling but he just won’t take anything else? He spits them right back at me (with a smile) lol. I know some feed less often but ours eat every night. A less expensive diet would be nice but…?🙈
 

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Yeah blackworms will work but he would have to eat a lot to get the correct nutrients. We have a red wiggler farm that we draw from in our garage. After we harvest and rinse the dirt off we blanch them which gets rid of the bitter taste they give off.
When an axolotl refuses to eat good food we just don't feed them until they get hungry enough to eat them. They wont starve themselves and they do get spoiled easily. We have six >.< so we needed to find a self sustaining food source.
 

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Here is a couple of ours. One is a Melanoid and the other is a Hypo-melanistic Copper.
 

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Zilla Havens

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Here is a couple of ours. One is a Melanoid and the other is a Hypo-melanistic Copper.
Yes and ours eat so much and so often… that a lot on its own and then we were blessed with ALL these babies and whew!!! lol
Awwwwwww what beauty’s!!!
And they most definitely look loved and happy!! That’s a great idea with the worms! Maybe we need to try that?
Again, those babies of yours are too CUTE!!
 

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Yes and ours eat so much and so often… that a lot on its own and then we were blessed with ALL these babies and whew!!! lol
Awwwwwww what beauty’s!!!
And they most definitely look loved and happy!! That’s a great idea with the worms! Maybe we need to try that?
Again, those babies of yours are too CUTE!!
I love all the live plants!! You guys know what you’re doing!😍
 
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