My Axolotl

[Galapoheros]

Yeah I didn't like the idea of people using them as bait either, so I'd go to the local bait shop, buy them and put them in a 120 gal I used to have. Wow, no native salamanders in Australia!, ..new news to me. Do you know if it was imported or bred there? I'd bet your right but I do know that some people working with importing and exporting animals are ,not "stupid", but ignorant in screening out animals when they are imported or exported even though it's their job, it's pretty bizarre what some professionals claim, thinking Heterometrus are Pandinus, things like that. And many people in the US regularly call tigrinum larva Axolotls, even some private store owners that have been in the biz for some years. I didn't know the import laws were so strict there. What did it, was it the toad thing?

 

[PhilK]

Do you know if it was imported or bred there?

Definitely bred here.. no imported amphibians are allowed into Australia. All axolotls in pet shops would be many, many, many generations captive bred here in Australia.

I didn't know the import laws were so strict there. What did it, was it the toad thing?

Yeah they're extremely strict. We're allowed only native reptiles, with a licence. Some states aren't even allowed that and each state has different rules. Some states can keep native mammals but not my state, and some states can't keep any native inverts either but we can.

ALL exotic inverts and herps/amphibians etc are illegal.. Australia's ecosystem is extremely fragile and has been decimated by the introduction of 100s of feral species (foxes, cats, rabbits, toads, the list goes on and on). Toads are the best known example and responsible for the wiping out of many native frogs and frog eating snakes.. We are even starting to have trouble with bloody corn snakes and red eared sliders going feral.. the laws are there for a reason but some people think it's OK to breach them.. sacrificing our amazing ecosystem

 

[Galapoheros]

Daaanng!, yeah that's pretty strict. I just read more about it on the internet. You've prob heard, maybe you even know the guy, ..Dr Godwin from Australia wants to make it legal to import Axolotls there. But he said, "...from the US.." So it sounds like he wants to be sure he gets "tigrinum axolotls" and is not sure of the genetic background of the ones in Australia. It almost looks like the beginning of it scientifically being accepted to call tigrinum that maintain larval characteristics Axolotls too! Are there two species they want to call Axolotls now? Are they going that direction? Maybe it was just the way it was written, the writer twisting it or something like that.

 

[Animalia]

lol i feel quite dumb now :wall: :wall: :wall: i didnt know what a axolotl was so i was like oh let me look at the pictures...........

ya well since the first picture showed a plant and rocks and you said it name (wich i missread ) was fungus i thought you were refering to the plant

so i was thinking darn... this dude is stupid he has a pet fungus.

ya now im the stupid one

 

[Pacmaster]

This is the best place to find info . . .
They are so cool!

http://www.axolotl.org/