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sharon
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First off, I accidently posted this in the wrong forum, sorry guys! I kinda got lost in the maze of boards!!! I'll get it figured out!
Good lord! I've been reading some of the old posts and I'm a little intimidated but here goes anyway!
I've been looking for axos for years. Mostly through the retail petstores. I've bought about 6 "axolotls" and each and every time I've wound up with a barred tiger. Or is it a splotched tiger? Every one of them came through their metamorphosis with flying colors and I gave all of them away. Well, except the one I thought was dead (disappeared) and now he is living happily with my Whites' Tree frogs.
I've also owned marbled salamanders and most of the common petstore stock.
I just found Michale Shrom, and ordered 6 little axos from him.
I've got a HUGE assortment of tanks. I'm a stay at home slave w/3 human children, limited income and a love for herps!
I recently purchased two breeding pairs of paradoera pictus geckos, (Madagascar ground geckos), hopefully they will help me support my menagerie. Don't get me wrong, we aren't poor and living in a hovel w/a collection of pets. But keeping and breeding herps is NOT a cheap thing! I was totally taken with the price this guy put on the geckos, but oh well, live and learn.
Learn. So I'm here. Lets say space is not a problem. I have dozens of 10 gl tanks 1 gorgeous show quality 70 gl, and a 125 gl, and just about every size in between. I've been collecting these over the last five years.
I really want to get into breeding amphibs, hence the tank collection.
I've got gravel that is larger than my 3 yr old 9 - 10 inch long tiger salamanders head for the new axos. Several powerheads, mostly weak ones.
My plan was to put these 6 3 - 4 inch axos in a 20 gl long with two in the tank filters w/powerheads, undergravel filter w/one of the two submersed filter/powerhead sitting in the hole.
I figure that takes care of the cleaning aspect but aesthetics..... I've read that the axos can be rough on "ornaments" in their tanks. I love live plants and have them in all of my vivariums and fish tanks. I'm thinking of chopping up this undergravel filter and putting the pots into the holes, then covering them up with gravel - will that work?
BUT what about lighting? Will the grow lights for the plants annoy or harm the axos?
And something I'm wondering now, and haven't really considered - are axos, nocturnal, diurnal??? Do I need a black light?
Regarding the black lights.... I read ONCE long ago that the common "party/poster" black light used long term has caused cancer in fish. HOWEVER most of my lights are tubes, and the reptile safe lights are incandescents and usually a fairly high heat.
You know I really just oughta ask, HOW DO you folks have your axos set up?
I hope I've covered it all.
TIA!
Sharon
Good lord! I've been reading some of the old posts and I'm a little intimidated but here goes anyway!
I've been looking for axos for years. Mostly through the retail petstores. I've bought about 6 "axolotls" and each and every time I've wound up with a barred tiger. Or is it a splotched tiger? Every one of them came through their metamorphosis with flying colors and I gave all of them away. Well, except the one I thought was dead (disappeared) and now he is living happily with my Whites' Tree frogs.
I've also owned marbled salamanders and most of the common petstore stock.
I just found Michale Shrom, and ordered 6 little axos from him.
I've got a HUGE assortment of tanks. I'm a stay at home slave w/3 human children, limited income and a love for herps!
I recently purchased two breeding pairs of paradoera pictus geckos, (Madagascar ground geckos), hopefully they will help me support my menagerie. Don't get me wrong, we aren't poor and living in a hovel w/a collection of pets. But keeping and breeding herps is NOT a cheap thing! I was totally taken with the price this guy put on the geckos, but oh well, live and learn.
Learn. So I'm here. Lets say space is not a problem. I have dozens of 10 gl tanks 1 gorgeous show quality 70 gl, and a 125 gl, and just about every size in between. I've been collecting these over the last five years.
I really want to get into breeding amphibs, hence the tank collection.
I've got gravel that is larger than my 3 yr old 9 - 10 inch long tiger salamanders head for the new axos. Several powerheads, mostly weak ones.
My plan was to put these 6 3 - 4 inch axos in a 20 gl long with two in the tank filters w/powerheads, undergravel filter w/one of the two submersed filter/powerhead sitting in the hole.
I figure that takes care of the cleaning aspect but aesthetics..... I've read that the axos can be rough on "ornaments" in their tanks. I love live plants and have them in all of my vivariums and fish tanks. I'm thinking of chopping up this undergravel filter and putting the pots into the holes, then covering them up with gravel - will that work?
BUT what about lighting? Will the grow lights for the plants annoy or harm the axos?
And something I'm wondering now, and haven't really considered - are axos, nocturnal, diurnal??? Do I need a black light?
Regarding the black lights.... I read ONCE long ago that the common "party/poster" black light used long term has caused cancer in fish. HOWEVER most of my lights are tubes, and the reptile safe lights are incandescents and usually a fairly high heat.
You know I really just oughta ask, HOW DO you folks have your axos set up?
I hope I've covered it all.
TIA!
Sharon