Axolotls

Intro

Axolotls look like an easy pet to look after but you still need to get lots of things right before it becomes happy. They are great once you get used to them.

Appearance

Axolotls can be many different colours such as Gray,black,white,creamy white and brown. Their eye colours are either white or black. They have 6 gills on the side of their head they breath from them. They stick out of their head they have 3 on each side there frilly. They have an eel like figure. Some axolotls can even grow as big as eels.

Diet

They are carnivores and they can be cannibalistic. Anything moving that is smaller than them they usually eat it. Their teeth are are made to grip not chew because they swallow their food hole.Axolotls eat food weather it is dead or alive. The teeth they have are not sharp enough to pierce through humans skin.

Habitat

It is very important that they have the right water temperature. If the water is 24 or above they will get stressed and die. Also if the water is below 10 degrees the axolotls will eat less food or sometimes even stop eating all together .The right temperature is between 15-18 degrees. If the water flow is to heavy it causes one of the biggest stress-related disease in axolotls. It is important to have the right habitat for an axolotl.

Predators

Older axolotls eat the younger ones. Fish nibble and nip on the axolotls gills.  Axolotls are cannibalistic so they eat each other.  Once they have laid the eggs they eat them so it is important that you remove the adults from the tank while they grow. Most things that are bigger than the axolotls and are put in the tank with them eat them.

conclusion

Axolotls are a bit of work at the start but after a while they become easy to look after.