Axol Beans!

Well, yesterday we got given some axol beans!!! (Tiny bean-shaped baby axolotls growing in eggs!) It is so exciting! We hope we can look after them well, and that they will hatch into healthy baby axolotls! The photo on the left is a little hard to see, but that little white beany-looking thing is an axolotl baby inside a clear egg! There are at least eight eggs in there at the moment, so hopefully everything will go well and we will have some babies in around one or two weeks time! They need to double in size, and grow a head with gills, and a tail before they will hatch (you can sort of see that one of the beany shape is thicker than the other - this will grow into the head, while the thin end will become the tail =D). Then, after they hatch, they grow legs! It's really exciting! These eggs aren't the babies of my axolotls, by the way =). It is possible that they are Almondy's relatives, though! (Almondy is the cute guy in the other picture!)

If anyone would like to see a photo log of how axolotl eggs grow and develop, see here =) Our little eggs are around day five or six at the moment =D. It is pretty cute when (around day nine or ten) they start actually wriggling and moving around in their eggs! 


~Adrielle =)