Not just twins, but ALBINO TWINS!!

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Unbelievable! My twins turned out to be albino! :shocked: I don't know what the chances are, but this is pretty amazing. These pictures are two days old. They have hatched and are doing great!

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I've never had axies but have read a lot about them here...aren't their larvae pretty cannibalistic? Or they often bite off each others limbs? I wonder if that would happen in the 'womb'! (I mean, egg).
 
otterwoman said:
I've never had axies but have read a lot about them here...aren't their larvae pretty cannibalistic? Or they often bite off each others limbs? I wonder if that would happen in the 'womb'! (I mean, egg).
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Lol, i think i read that their mouths are sealed before they hatch, and they dont grow limbs for a few months...think tadpoles and frogs.
So i think they are safe enough in the egg/womb :D
 
otterwoman said:
Oh, how dumb of me to forget that. But they could bite the tips of their tails off...but not if their lips are sealed.
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I don't think they would be doing much biting until they get hungry either, in the egg they still have the yolk to subsist on.
 
That is amazing!
but this makes me wonder... can birds have twins? Two babies in one egg? Seems impossible...
:p
 
Absolutly adorable. My twins, (my 4 yr old sons) got a kick out of your pictures too.:bowl: I didn't know that axies could have twins! That is exciting.
 
bellabelloo said:
Looking at those wonderful pictures, does one have dark eyes?
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It is IMPOSSIBLE for one of them to have dark eyes, and for the other to have light eyes. Having developed from the same egg, these are IDENTICAL twins; NOT fraternal twins.

Technically speaking, ALL babies from the same egg clutch would be fraternal siblings, just as a kitten who is born with five siblings would technically have five fraternal quintuplets.
 
Velaria said:
It is IMPOSSIBLE for one of them to have dark eyes, and for the other to have light eyes. Having developed from the same egg, these are IDENTICAL twins; NOT fraternal twins.

Technically speaking, ALL babies from the same egg clutch would be fraternal siblings, just as a kitten who is born with five siblings would technically have five fraternal quintuplets.
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If these twins are the same as my twins then they do not come from the same egg.
They are two eggs inside one jelly coat.

Mel
 
I wanted to echo the sentiment about the possibility of the twins being fraternal. It's probably more likely than the twins being identical and occurs as the egg is being "assembled" with the jelly coat following fertilization and just before being expelled from the mother's body.
 
In my latest batch of eggs, there were two sets of twins. Very cool. I never noticed this in any of the previous batches.
 
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