Question: Axolotls faces

[David B]

Hello all

I've just acquired 3 baby axolotls after a break of 5 years or so - my previous ones lived for 12 years.
I've spent a good deal of time watching these new fellas and of course looking at axie photos on this very site - Am I the only one that recognises that all axies seem to have different faces and 'expressions'?

Or am I going mad!!!!

David B

 

[GemzD26]

Hi David,

No your not going mad either that or i am too!!!

I got four baby lecustic/golden axoltl juves last weekend.

I feed them and watch them and i think they all look diffrent even tho they are the same batch,

One is really skiterish and high strung,one is a sloth and the other two are skinny as rakes but eat bloodworms like they are going out of fashion.

One has short gills,two have black,and one has really long set. :rofl:

 

[blueberlin]

I think they all kind of look the same around the eyes but the shape of the head and snout and most definitely the shape, size, and location of the mouth are different among each of my axolotls. Not to mention coloration, of course.

-Eva

 

[Slapme]

yep, they're all different.... but they always seem to have a smile on their faces! The black ones are funny, they look like demons until they face you and they have a silly grin on their face!

 

[melfly]

Because i was the only one who said no i feel i need to explain myself. Haha. Ok so i have been raising axolotls for 8 months now. And i dont think i'd beable to tell one from another by lookin at their faces alone. My 3 big ones are different colours leucistic, wild and gold so i can quite obviously tell the difference. They do each have different personalities. (is that the right word to use?) and i can usually tell by their behaviour if there is something wrong. The babies i have raised i would never tell apart, apart from the odd large one or slightly different one. Maybe this is my opinion because i dont get to see them grown up. Mel

 

[bitenomnom]

The black ones are funny, they look like demons until they face you and they have a silly grin on their face!

I agree 100%! Every time I walk into my room my little guy Velvet sees me and swims up to the front and looks at me just like this: (attached)
(I took this one just today! It's a tiny bit warped because I took it from a funny angle.)
I think that because of their head shapes their faces seem different from each other. Also, it seems like Velvet (in the picture, my melanoid) seems like he has bigger eyes than my wildtype and albino, though probably partly because they're all black, and partly because his head seems "smaller"/narrower.