Boomsloth
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Its a sad thought but most amphibians in the wild will lay hundreds of eggs with only a very small fraction making it until adulthood. Besides natural predation there are just those individuals who are too weak or deformed to survive. In the pet trade we can have a much higher survival rate because we provide better nutrition and environments so that even those who might have grown a little smaller can live. We are lucky that with all the lab work and research done on axolotls we can identify those certain fatal deformities like the pinhead gene and cull them humanely.
I'm sorry you had to lose your little ones. I hope this thread helps anyone else who might have to go through this situation.