Crossing neotenic tigers with axolotls

[dln]

Has anyone reading the forum had any luck with this. I understand the first albino axolotl was created by crossing a wild type male axolotl with a female albino neotenic tiger. I'm thinking about crossing a golden axolotl with a neotenic eastern tiger. Would some of the offspring be terrestrial?

 

[john]

I'd say many would be terrestrial, yes. I don't see why breeding them wouldn't work though, but don't get your hopes up for high fertility.

John

 

[mattias]

As I can recall (without having the article here know) about the crossing in of tigrinum-albino-genes into a stock of axolotls, there were a lot of troubles. It was not a case of regular breeding, nor even hormone induced breeding, but exsitu fertilization and host eggs with dead nucleous. Finally high mortality was the result.

But the tigersalamander was a terrestrial specimen, though.

All albino axolotls in the whole wide world comes from this original stock, and there has been numberous incrossing with only non-albino axolotls so that the persentage of tigrinum genes left is very low.

I would be very interested to know about breeding results. Have you breed any neotenic tigersalamanders before?

Excuse my bad English today, I am tired after a full day in the woods, and Your Swedish are probably worse

Mattias