Question!

[AxolotlMama]

How to introduce a male axolotl to a female axolotl without it ending in blood shed? I want to breed a pair but im very scared of losing either or please help!

 

[xxianxx]

As long as they are of a similar size they should be ok. Injuries caused by axolotl to each other are generally feeding mistakes. It has nothing to do with territorial behavour or sexual aggression. Have you been researching axolotl on face book ?

 

[AxolotlMama]

As long as they are of a similar size they should be ok. Injuries caused by axolotl to each other are generally feeding mistakes. It has nothing to do with territorial behavour or sexual aggression. Have you been researching axolotl on face book ?

No I don't research axolotls on fb but a friend of mine axolotl jumped into another's tub which was a female and she mated as well as ended up killing him. But thank you most of what you stated I knew just trying to understand this scenario that happened.

 

[xxianxx]

No I don't research axolotls on fb but a friend of mine axolotl jumped into another's tub which was a female and she mated as well as ended up killing him. But thank you most of what you stated I knew just trying to understand this scenario that happened.

I doubt it was murdered by its tank mate, axolotls are cannibalistic but there generally needs to be a large size difference to trigger this.

 

[AxolotlMama]

I doubt it was murdered by its tank mate, axolotls are cannibalistic but there generally needs to be a large size difference to trigger this.

Thank you so much so it was size difference I'll let her know this thank you so much i was lost by her story but it makes sense now after you add the difference in size it what triggered this.

 

[fishkid]

axolotls do not have the capability to be aggressive, if they are underfed they may take off a limb or consume an axolotl much smaller then them so as long as the head size is close to the same they will not. a breeding pair also cannot be kept together permanently, just for breeding other wise the male will breed the female to exhaustion or in some cases death.

 

[xxianxx]

a breeding pair also cannot be kept together permanently, just for breeding other wise the male will breed the female to exhaustion or in some cases death.

Utter trash which is commonly cited in face book groups. This does not happen. I breed axolotl commercially, all my axolotl are in mixed sex groups and they do not breed themselves to death, the males cant force the females to breed , the females breed only when they want to when gravid. I have raised hundreds of axolotl to adulthood and only once have i had to seperate a female as she was laying every couple of weeks, she grew out of this behaviour as she got older. Your advice is nonsense.