Actural maturity???

[stipe]

Mala, my young female axolotl has black toe tips and is oviosly mature but she isnt at all fat or round at the stomach. Shes been mature for a couple of months now, about 3 or 4 but is really skinny ans shows no sign of producing eggs? not that i really want them now but i just want to know why. She is even skinnier than my male! and they are the same age getting the same amount of food. She is definatly a female because of the really small to non-exsistant cloaca. And plus my male isnt even mature yet(no black toe tips) and is constantly producing spermathores. They are both albino by the way. Squidy is a white albino and mala is a golden albino. ALso is this gene mix any good?

(Message edited by stipe on November 14, 2005)

 

[rheann]

Stipe - Black toe tips don't always indicate sexual maturity. I have a baby that isn't even 4 cm long yet and he already has some black toes, and another sub-adult who is about 11cm has black toe tips and it's a golden albino but I know that he hasn't reached sexual maturity yet, I am not really even sure the sex of it yet.

How old is the female you have again?

 

[hayley-jane]

What are the black toes for?

Elsa got them when she was very very young.

Then earlier this year when she was sick the black bits all fell off.

Now she has the biggest blackest toes she's ever had??

 

[stipe]

shes about 6-9 months

 

[sharn]

black toes are rumoured to happen due to a chemical reaction during the body when they reach maturity, this is false, like rheann said i have also had young axies develop black toes. maybe you actually have two males and your 'female' just has been slow to develop his bulge?

 

[stipe]

that could be true as she does not have a rounded stomach. but when i bought her (hopfuly not a him) she was in a tank with all females.

 

[sharn]

i attempted to buy a male and a female and they both turned out to be the oppostite of what i thought, either way i now have 1 female and 3 males, i feel so sorry for her!!

 

[stipe]

Ahahahaha, oh poor girl.

 

[nathan]

stipe didn’t you say that she laid some eggs in another post?

 

[nathan]

like just here.
http://www.caudata.org/forum/messages/793/47229.html?1131947701

 

[stipe]

ye she did but there was only like 10 and i felt so slac for here because she wasnt ready. The question im askin now is when do they start making eggs in thier body like full scale and all.

 

[nathan]

so she must be a female then

 

[sharn]

well i thought my female was a male for a long time, i think it was almost a year since i had her that her stomach started to change. maybe she is just slow to mature to full on egg producing, give her time

 

[stipe]

Nathan- I still dont know it was her. I woke up and found them on a plant so i dont know who laid them.

 

[hailz]

My female Albino laid eggs when she was very skinny, i was wrong in assuming that she wasnt carrying any eggs because she was so skinny. and somehow she managed to lay around 200 eggs and survive (just a little exhausted in the end)lol.

 

[michael]

6 to 9 months is pretty young to breed. It can be done but she won't start producing lots of egg till next year.

 

[john]

Yes, 6-9 months is a really short time, I had mine for about 6 months and they mated, but she was already 5+ months old..

John