Thread by @ursa_system, This is... literally all wrong. As someone who has kept axolotls and [...]

This is... literally all wrong. As someone who has kept axolotls and has a LOT of experience with exotic pet care, let me actually break this down for you: https://twitter.com/mayawastakenn/status/1312471589447847936">https://twitter.com/mayawasta...

https://twitter.com/mayawastakenn/status/1312471589447847936

1) You& #39;re right in saying that they aren& #39;t commonly pink in the wild, but they do come in many different colors in the wild. In captivity, there are four main categories: wild, melanistic, leucistic, and albino, and some in-between
These ALL occur naturally in the wild
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2) It may be safest to house an axolotl alone, especially if you don& #39;t have a big enough tank for more than one, but they can ABSOLUTELY be housed together. Especially adults, but also babies if they& #39;re together from birth
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That being said, from dogs to lizards to fish, housing ANY animal with another of same or different species is always a risk. You& #39;ll need to keep an eye on them to make sure they aren& #39;t harassing each other
Axolotls will frequently - accidentally - bite each other& #39;s limbs off >>

if kept together, happened with mine. They& #39;re blind as shit and whoops, leggy gone. Axolotls can and do grow limbs back, though, and to say they just CAN& #39;T be housed together just goes to show the ignorance that OP has in this thread
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3) No, you won& #39;t be able to take your axolotl out of its tank and play with it, that& #39;s common sense. But if you wash your hands with warm water, no soap, you can DEFINITELY play with them AND train them in their tanks! I trained mine to sit on my hand and they loved lounging!
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4) Axolotls are fucking juggernauts. They& #39;re tougher than most commonly kept fish, and require WAY less maintenance than tropical fish tanks
First of all, you want a bare-bottom tank for your axolotls, while fish require substrate. Bare-bottom makes cleaning WAY easier
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Secondly, most tropical schooling fish will literally drop dead at the slightest change in water parameters, making tropical tanks really overwhelming for beginners. Axolotls don& #39;t give a FUCK, dude, they& #39;ll take whatever they can get. They& #39;re tough as shit
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As for filtration, meh, that& #39;s true. Axolotls are filthy bastards, they shit more and they take big-ass shits, too, with tons of ammonia. I had my axolotls in a 40gal breeder tank, with an AquaClear 75 filter, so much bigger than necessary, and siphoned bottom once a week
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Literally not that much maintenance at all. My axolotl tank was the easiest of 7 freshwater tanks I was managing at home, AND was easier than all the tanks I was managing at work, too

They& #39;re tough as shit, low maintenance, lovable, with their own personalities
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You CAN interact with and socialize them, and I& #39;m sick of people saying you can& #39;t do that with aquarium animals like fish and amphibians, it& #39;s doing the creatures an injustice to their level of intelligence and livelihood to not bond with them and stimulate their minds!
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So seriously, OP, do your research. A lot of your information is wrong and it& #39;s your responsibility to know what you& #39;re talking about when you make a thread like this. Don& #39;t do these beautiful creatures an injustice with your misinformation

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