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Axolotl

Breeding projects Axolotl
2025 brings more changes not only to the store but also to our selection of breeding projects.
Due to popular demand, we have begun breeding projects axolotl in-house. This allows us to provide our customers with high-quality live reptile and aquatic pets, along with parentage information.
When we breed our animals in-house, we are able to give our customers the full feeding history from hatching from the egg.
Our breeding blogs allow you to see the full progress of our projects, including breeding, egg laying, hatching, and growing.
The process
Axolotls are an interesting species of amphibian with the amazing ability to regenerate their limbs should they lose them. Similar to froglets, this can be quite common among groups of young axolotls; in the wild, larger, healthier babies would inevitably eat some of them. In captivity we are able to monitor and control feeding which prevents some of the natural losses of the clutch.

Axolotl breeding projects – Our adult pair of axolotls are both leucistic in colour. Leucism causes a lack of pigment in cells, which is what makes them white in colouration. Leucistic Axolotls are not albino. You can easily tell the difference, as albino axolotls have red eyes and leucistic axolotls have black eyes.

As both of our parents are visual leucistics, we expect most of our baby axolotls to look the same; however, it is possible for some individuals to appear with different levels of spotting and patterns. We will know more about the results of our breeding once the axolotls become larger.

Axolotls breed in a similar way to other amphibians. This involves the male depositing sperm onto the bottom of the tank or lake in the wild. The female then collects the sperm deposits in her cloaca and internally fertilises them. After a few days, the female lays eggs that look a little bit like see-through bubble wrap. After 2-3 weeks the eggs hatch and the baby Axolotls emerge.

Similarly to other animals—including humans, sometimes we get unexpected results in a clutch including plus ones! An amazing sight to see, you can clearly see twins inside one of the egg sacs. As you can see, both look healthy and there is no reason why both of the babies would not survive.

As the babies grow and get ready to leave the egg, it is a lot easier to recognise the tiny creatures as Axolotls. In the last few days before the eggs hatch, they are almost minature versions of their full adult state.

When they are hatched, the babies start to feed on small food items such as brineshrimp. When larger they begin feeding on bloodworm and other foods. The babies are small and almost seethrough allowing us to see that the babies have eaten.
Caring for Axolotl
Axolotls require a lot of space so that they can move around the tank and any décor without becoming trapped or injuring themselves.
A minimum of a 40-litre tank should be provided for a small axolotl, with them requiring closer to 80 litres as an adult. However, this is just a guide; we should always aim to provide the largest enclosure possible to allow your pet to exhibit its wild behaviours.
Substrate is important for axolotls due to how they eat. Because they gulp their food, it is possible for them to accidentally swallow gravel and small stones. We recommend using a fine aquarium sand for your axolotl, but you can also keep the bottom of the tank bare.
Provide rocks and plants for your axolotl to hide in and to provide enrichment; however, be cautious not to put in anything with a hole smaller than the head of your axolotl, and try not to place anything sharp in the tank. Axolotls need a bit of space to move due to their chunky size, and so you should ensure that your pet can move freely around the whole tank and not get stuck between décor or inside a rock, etc.
It is important to add a filter to your pet axolotl’s tank so that there is some water movement. The filter you select should be suitable to the size of your tank (in litres).
Blackpool Reptiles provide a range of Axolotl housing in both aquarium and open top tartarium form. These range from 60 to 80 litres and can be a standard set up or bioactive. Larger tanks are available to order. Speak to our team about turning your Axolotl tank bio-active.
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Health Check
Temperature– Axolotls live in cool still water lakes in Mexico. They require cool water temperature and cannot survive and will show signs of ill health if kept above recommended temps for a period of time. They will come lethargic and stop eating which is a result of hyperthermia.
Ingestion of foreign objects– Axolotl eat by gulping, so foreign objects like gravel can be eaten by accident. If this is not passed or removed it can cause illness leading to death. Sand or bare bottom is better as fine sand can be ingested safely.
Obesity- Axolotl are slow moving and quite often inactive animals. They generally spend their time swimming around or even just floating in one place. They are very keen feeders, so take care should be taken not to over feed. Over feeding your axolotl can cause health issues and obesity can lead to reduction in your pet axolotls lifespan.
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