Our Axie Family Album

[chris]

these are some of the pics from our ever growing family of axies,we love them so much that we have just ordered another 5 ft tank so our family can grow and also breed. hope you like

6 of our 10 axies are shown here and their names are;Sheb,Blue,Squidge,Becks,Shag and R'kid

(Message edited by jennewt on January 06, 2006)

 

[alex]

cute! your so lucky to have so much!, like the wild type i think his/her names sheb, he/she has really nice colorations on his/her head! like yellow and black.

 

[rory]

Yes alex i like the yellow coloration aswell but is that a thermostat in the tank why would u need one if they llive in cold water

 

[theresa]

WOW... great looking axies.! really neat tank.!Looks like all natural plants. how long has your tank been up? do you use plant fert? you must use lighting, how much, how long? Doesn't that heat up your water?
ditto on the heater question from rory.
What kind of camera?

 

[chris]

There are 2 reasons why we have a thermostate. Firstly, as we live in England the temperature can drop very low at night (- numbers) so we have keep our little smilers from freezing over night. We also found it keeps the water temperature at a constant (digestion, regergitation and all that)

yeah they are all naturel plants they all came from one of our other Tropical Fish tanks that we have grown on. We havent used a drop of fertilizer as they seem to grow perfectly well on their own.

The tank has been up and running now for about 6 months or so, so far only had the one problem with our Floater (but she is on her own in another tank, whilst in hospital) also going to buy for her a boyfriend and she is going in the new tank (which we all excited about)

The lighting is a very low Wattage, full spectrum bulb. They dont get hot, with the lighting and the thermostate the water stays at a steady 18 degrees, when we want to drop it for breeding its only a case of turning the thermostate off. (We are looking forward to starting our breeding program as to what rare colourations we will get, its going to be interesting)

The camera is Canon Ixsus I about 4M pixel, wasnt that expensive, seems to take good picies of axies

 

[hayley-jane]

Where do you live in England?

Do you keep your axies in the garage or somewhere cold?

I keep mine in a bedroom, with the door shut at all times because we have to turn off the radiator in there to keep the room and therefore tank cool.

With the radiator turned off it stays at 19C, its never dropped below that without the aid of ice bottles, even 2 days ago when the temp was -8C outside

 

[chris]

The only thing we can say is that we must live in a very cold house! We have always had a therm to keep their metabalism up and running and aids in keeping our tank at the same temperature. The thermo only kicks in when the temperature drops at night below the set 18 degrees, if we didnt have the thermo in the tank then it would flucktuate by 5 - 6 degrees during the night and too us that is far too much to upset them by. We have had the tank now for 6 months and non of our little smilers have had any problems (touch wood) so for us this setup works.

 

[charlotte]

that white one is adorable, the angles you've captured there.

lovely sand and plants they look really nice.
you have a sharp eye rory!

 

[rory]

Thanks Charlotte

 

[sin]

they all have very unique colouring, your little smilers look very happy.

 

[chris]

thanks for all the great posts about our axies,its lovely to hear from others wiv the great love of them as we have.pick the new "tank" up to add to the others at the weekend and cant wait to start to set it up

(Message edited by Rkid_uk on January 02, 2006)

 

[charlotte]

what kind of axolotl is that with the yellow splotches on it?

 

[bubba]

the axy in the 11th picture is beautiful your so fortunate to have such a nice colored axy!

 

[stipe]

Yes i would say that they are beautiful, so livley and healthy lokking, foreging around through the forest, you should be proud of yourself

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[chris]

thanku for the kind comments on the axies its very kind,i have just set up new homes for some of my axies 2. 4 ft tanks both wiv 500 litre coolers on and large eheim canistar filters i will take some pcs of the new tanks and post them 2morrow i will take a pic of the coolers see what every1 thinks of them

 

[jojo]

You have a beautiful family going on there. Such unique colours - l love them all!

 

[chris]

thankyou jojo for the kind comments here is a couple of pics of the newest tanks and a pic of one of the 2 coolers i have got now

squidge seems happy with his new home.i also just recently purchaced a r.o unit that makes around 200 litres of water a day now that i have it i dont know how i did with out it lol

(Message edited by Rkid_uk on January 24, 2006)

 

[dane]

I am getting big stones also what did you get? i am getting Nepoar lucky stones.

 

[chris]

the pebbles i got are natual river pebbles,didnt work out to bad price wise either

 

[dane]

Did you get yours from a nursery because i am going to.