How do you tell the sexes of an axolotl apart?

Question

have just got two and would like to know what i have got.. my dad is big on breeding them have had two before but they died and never bred

Answer 1

There's really only two reliable ways, both require the animals to be of mature size, the first being the more accurate -

- sexually active males will have a more swollen 'cloacal' area than a female

- mature females often have much rounder bodies compared to males because of the ammount of eggs they carry.

Hope this helps, check out this page for picture examples :

http://www.axolotl.org/biology.htm