Axolotls are amazing creature salamanders that live in water that live in only one lake. What are these strange four legged salamander creature? How do they live in the water? How can they live in only one lake?
Here is there story, it was said that hundreds of years ago when the ice age was happening a lake stayed frozen and in that lake were baby salamander eggs but since the lake was frozen solid how would they get out, they couldn't. The baby salamanders evolved into some type of fish lizard thing, there slick as wet glass and dark as night. What are these weird looking lizard fish?
When the scientist found them they didn't know, they studied them watched them. They decided to call them Axolotls. They watched how they survived how they ate and found that if they are dark and black that they would use there skin to blend into the rocks of the lake to hide from prey yet some weren't so lucky to get features that were dark some are albinos. These albino axolotls were caught so they couldn't die off, so now a days if you see an axolotl in the wild you know that number one its not going to last long and number two that is a rare seeing. Even the wild type are coming to extinction.
So now you know why I call them amazing creature and how they are very close to extinction and how its very hard to find them in the wild or even in captivity, but my teacher was lucky to have two of these amazing creatures. We take care of them and feed them crickets, they are always well feed and cared for. I've touched them before they are very very fast and slimy. You can tell that they don't want to be touched.
We keep our axolotls in a big fish tank but you cant put just any water in the tank you have to take tap water and let it sit for 24 hours and let all the chemicals evaporate out. You can put a filter in the water but you don't really need to. We feed our axolotls meal worms and crickets. That is the best way to take care of an axolotls.
5 Fun Facts about Axolotls:
- Axolotls lay jelly like eggs.
- They eat with suction.
- They became neotinic and it actually helped them.
- They regenerate limbs, heart tissue, brain tissue and spinal tissue.
- They become stressed in moving water (or warm).
