The Survivors

After the recent disaster, I'm happy to say Nessie has come through with no obvious outward signs of stress. He is eating well, his skin and gills looks good and normal, and he is swimming around and coming to me as usual to be hand fed. If anything, I think he was just relieved his humans came home to rescue him! The remaining baby axolotl who survived are Precious, Heidi and Lucky. Precious and Heidi are now eleven days old. They are both white/translucent at this stage. Precious was named by, and is the favorite, of my ten year old daughter. She is adorable, with black eyes that look too big for her. Heidi has clear eyes, so I'm thinking she may be an albino? Lucky (living up to his name), is grey. He was the last baby that I saved during my 'egg intervention', so therefore is technically, at seven days old, the youngest, although he is not noticeably smaller than his siblings. The other baby Axolotls we lost, were all darker coloured, and Wiggles had looked to be a striking wild type, but I won't dwell on the past.