Monday 20 February 2012

At Least Put A Blanket Over The Tank For Privacy For God Sake. (Blog #10)

This was one of my better ones; usually i find all the information online and post it but for this one i reitirated everything into my own words. I also still find it funny that these posts dates are exactly around this time last year. This ones from March 18th 2011




Breeding. Thats right, Breeding.
My little fellas ain't up to it yet, but that doesn't mean i can't touch on it and give you guys some info. So, hopefully the title makes sense now.



The "Bonding"
Takes axolotls around 6 months - 1 year to become sexually mature (remember this is still all in the juvenile stage of life).
Axolotls, like birds, will form a bond with each other and begin the mating process. (Note: Its not a good idea to breed axolotls until they reach their full size)
The "Mating"
Basic:The male axolotl will "Swim around the tank" for a while, and make gestures at the female, such as pushing up is tail and tapping on the females vent. The male will then leave Packs around the tank and try to lead the female over them, the female will then pick one of them up (With her cloaca), and be pregnant.


The "Laying of the eggs"

The impregnation usually happens between 2-4 hours. The female will then begin laying eggs somewhere the female finds appropriate. i.e. on plants or soft gravel. The female will leave between 100- or 1000 eggs in just 1 session. After the eggs are fertilized, its best to take both axolotls out of the tank. 

The "Hatching"

The eggs "if all has gone well" should hatch in 2-3 weeks, or about 17 days. The eggs have shown to have better hatching results if placed near plants as the water circulation has a better effect to them. Dont expect all 1000 eggs to hatch though! And Remember:
Axolotls are cannibalistic in nature and go through a "Cannible" phase for the first 6 months of their life.







*Update*
No! No No, i promised myself this wouldn't do this.  I've wanted an Axolotl for ages and swore i'd take care of it. Recently because of all the stuff in life thats been happening, Im starting to get lazy. The usual 20 degrees celcius temp i like to remain went up to 26 degrees the other day! Poor fish were boiling in there! I've been lazy with the Ice bottles and keeping the tank both clean and cold.
The Super worms (That i mentioned earlier) Are still alive and moving, Except that they don't seem so eager for them anymore. You got to give variety to the axolotls so il vary them on blood worms and ...wait for it.. OX KIDNEY. Yeah i managed to get my hands on a frozen ox kidney and theres enough to feed them for months on it. Also, I notice the axolotls are either spitting out or not fully digesting the worm and i see half of it usually moldy floating around in the tank. Eek. Better give it a good rinse out tomrrow then, ay?
Anywho, see you in a couple days guys,
I'm a whole lotl axolotl



-Josh

19 comments:

  1. You've got a couple of wrong stuffs there, axolotls will lay between 150 and 500 eggs, rarely more and certainly not 1000!
    Thn it takes 24 to 48h for the female to lay eggs and they hatch between 10 and 15 days, very rarely over!
    Good article otherwise!

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  2. I've never heard of an Axolotl but they look cute alright.

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  3. Good tips! I want to breed my fishes too!

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  4. Wow... So cool! I really want to get fish now.

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  5. They're so cute, my friend had a pet axolotl called Sir Mixalotl hehe.

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  6. Axolotls are really cool, indeed, but do you have any experiences with jellyfish? I've always wanted some but can't find any decent sites except for jellyfishart :/

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  7. gotcha bro follow back here and twitter.com/curious_ape10

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  8. cool how many of these things do you have

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  9. Very nice blog, and funny fishes!

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  10. they are some weird fishes..following blog cause they are awesome

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  11. Went to here to help a /(rulz 1&2)/ro, but it's a really interesting blog.

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  12. Hey add something more! I like your blog

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  13. How the heck did you get ahold of Ox kidnet? lol

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  14. So, the Mudkips are based of these fellows?

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