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katya
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You have all made it quite clear that you don't want or need my help. However befor I go I'll answer some of your questions about me.
I personally don't have a permit, however the friend i mentioned in a previous post does. I supply to him and he does the transporting and stuff. He gets orders and stuff from different people, for different kinds of axi's, I bred them and he sells them. I also work through a local reptile park, they had a small amphibian section with frogs and stuff, so i approached them about keeping axolotls, they said yes. They now keep about 5-8 axi's at a time on display, and they do all my overseas transfers. The axi's are usually qurantined for 3-4 months before going overseas, then they are usually quarientined when thy get to their destiation. When i said that I have sold axolotls all over the world, I didn't mean that manny, and i sell most of them to asia, probably about 50 a year or so. Most of the axi's i bred go to australian homes, mostly in queensland and new south wales.
I have my pet axi's (6 at the moment) and my profit axis. My pet axi's live in tanks, and all have names, i somtimes like to breed these, but not usually (I leave that to the profit axis) the tanks are all decked out with nice aquatic plants and lots of hidy holes, glass stones, and these tanks are in the house. Where as my profit axi's, these are the one's i breed from and sell, live in large tubs (i spose you could call them tubs anyway) with gravel and large rocks, and some plants (most of which are plastic) these "tubs" are airated and filtrated by a large system, and this is where I keep my profit ones, I keep males and females seperate, as well as different sizes. When I want to breed a particular axolotl, then I move the desired male and female in to a tank of their own, with a lower water temp and lots of plans and stuf. When all the bussiness is over and the female starts to lay the eggs (within 12 hours) i remove the male, give him a big feed and put him back with the rest. I leave the female with the eggs untill im sure she wont lay any more (about 48-72 hrs) take her out, put her in a recovery tank and give her a big feed, she stayes here for a few days then returnes to the others. Once the eggs hatch and the young get a little bigger I put them in a shallow (about 10cm deep) container with dividers. Each section is about 40 by 50 cm big and there is about 3-5 sharing each section. They do the culling themselves and so in the long run i have the strongest in each section. I know that it sounds really mean letting them eat eachother, but that way I don't get overrun with babies that i can't get rid of and I get the stronger ones, instead of the weaker, smaller ones. The young stay in this divided container untill they are about 7 - 10 cm long and are properly eating, breathing, walking (all that kind of stuff) then they are moved into one of the big "tubs", these tubs are big enough so that they don't get in eachother way and end up getting eaten.
I personally don't have a permit, however the friend i mentioned in a previous post does. I supply to him and he does the transporting and stuff. He gets orders and stuff from different people, for different kinds of axi's, I bred them and he sells them. I also work through a local reptile park, they had a small amphibian section with frogs and stuff, so i approached them about keeping axolotls, they said yes. They now keep about 5-8 axi's at a time on display, and they do all my overseas transfers. The axi's are usually qurantined for 3-4 months before going overseas, then they are usually quarientined when thy get to their destiation. When i said that I have sold axolotls all over the world, I didn't mean that manny, and i sell most of them to asia, probably about 50 a year or so. Most of the axi's i bred go to australian homes, mostly in queensland and new south wales.
I have my pet axi's (6 at the moment) and my profit axis. My pet axi's live in tanks, and all have names, i somtimes like to breed these, but not usually (I leave that to the profit axis) the tanks are all decked out with nice aquatic plants and lots of hidy holes, glass stones, and these tanks are in the house. Where as my profit axi's, these are the one's i breed from and sell, live in large tubs (i spose you could call them tubs anyway) with gravel and large rocks, and some plants (most of which are plastic) these "tubs" are airated and filtrated by a large system, and this is where I keep my profit ones, I keep males and females seperate, as well as different sizes. When I want to breed a particular axolotl, then I move the desired male and female in to a tank of their own, with a lower water temp and lots of plans and stuf. When all the bussiness is over and the female starts to lay the eggs (within 12 hours) i remove the male, give him a big feed and put him back with the rest. I leave the female with the eggs untill im sure she wont lay any more (about 48-72 hrs) take her out, put her in a recovery tank and give her a big feed, she stayes here for a few days then returnes to the others. Once the eggs hatch and the young get a little bigger I put them in a shallow (about 10cm deep) container with dividers. Each section is about 40 by 50 cm big and there is about 3-5 sharing each section. They do the culling themselves and so in the long run i have the strongest in each section. I know that it sounds really mean letting them eat eachother, but that way I don't get overrun with babies that i can't get rid of and I get the stronger ones, instead of the weaker, smaller ones. The young stay in this divided container untill they are about 7 - 10 cm long and are properly eating, breathing, walking (all that kind of stuff) then they are moved into one of the big "tubs", these tubs are big enough so that they don't get in eachother way and end up getting eaten.
