Oregon City Axolotl Rescue

Oregon City Axolotl Rescue In home local rescue specializing in axolotls!

07/21/2023

If we have anyone following us who is wanting to adopt please message our partner rescue Lopez House of Axolotls - Rehabilitation & Rehoming! They are wonderful and have a lot of wonderful axolotls needing home! ❤️

One of my adopters is looking to rehome! 4 males in first 2 photos 3 wilds and one dirty lucy. 1 5 years old all sibling...
04/05/2023

One of my adopters is looking to rehome! 4 males in first 2 photos 3 wilds and one dirty lucy. 1 5 years old all siblings! 3rd photos are 2 juvenile wilds, both siblings. Let me know if you are interested in one or two of these babies 🥰

02/11/2023

A warning to people impulse-buying axolotls (or EGGS!) at trade shows:

I am told that there are currently many "breeders" trying to dump hatchling and very small juvenile axolotls right now due to the extreme shortage of blackworms and other small, live food sources. Several people have reported to me that bags of eggs are even being sold at trade shows! These vendors have over-produced babies or had accidental clutches and thought it was a good idea to hatch them, or don't have the sense to cull the excess eggs, and now find that there simply isn't enough food available to keep them alive without spending the equivalent of a mortgage payment for a 2-week food supply.

Before you decide to take home tiny babies you need to understand that you're going to have the same problem, just on a smaller scale. Babies need frequent feeding with live foods. They will not take frozen, dried, or otherwise preserved foods for the first 6-8 weeks, and may require direct hand feeding for non-living foods for weeks after that. This means you need a constant source of live, high-protein foods of appropriate sizes as the babies grow. If you don't have them, the babies will grow very slowly, be permanently stunted, or die outright of malnutrition.

As I've stated on this page before; You should never get an axolotl under three months old unless you are experienced in their care, and have the necessary resources. An ethical seller will tell you that.

Please be aware:
(a) There are many genetic and health issues that are not obvious before about three months of age.
(b) Hatchlings and small juveniles are very sensitive to water conditions that have little effect on an older animal. In other words, they're fragile.
(c) After three months of age axolotls can be trained to take a variety of prepared and preserved foods that are readily available at pet shops or online, and can eat small nightcrawlers, red wigglers, etc. without hand-feeding. In fact, most responsible breeders will have already trained 3-4 month juveniles on pellets, worms, or other foods that are easy to obtain. We won't sell them at all (other than to people who have the requisite experience) unless they are eating floating pellets consistently.

01/20/2023

We are currently closed for intakes until further notice!

12/04/2022

PLEASE READ ( shared from another group)

“Due to the amount of “oops clutches'' I've seen in ALL the axolotls groups I think it's time to talk about it and how it affects axolotls as a whole.
Axolotls are already EXTREMELY (~35%) in**ed and breeding unknown genetics isn’t safe.
Just because you got your axolotls from 2 different breeders does NOT mean they aren’t related. We trade and buy from other breeders, ALL THE TIME. You could get a little from me and another breeder and you would never know they were related unless YOU reached out. If you can NOT reach out and ask the breeder for genetics, then do NOT breed that axolotl.
Breeding unknown genetics just weakens them that much more.
And with the amount of people breeding with unknown genetics it's leading to a large amount of the clutch being wild. Sadly, wilds are harder to place and when someone figures out they bit off more than they can chew, they expect breeders to take them all in.
We spend months and months picking pairs and raising out our own clutches, we don’t always have the extra money, time or space to take on another 100-500+ axolotls.
It’s not fair for people to just expect us to take them in because you choose not to cull at the appropriate time, because we are breeders.
If you wanna try your hand in raising eggs, get them from a breeder with known genetics, please.
Keep in mind most groups do not allow selling axolotls with unknown genetics as anything other than “PET ONLY” or the sale of axolotls at all due to fb rules.
Please don't take this the wrong way, if you can’t afford to feed 50-500+ axolotls LIVE FOOD for 3+ months, DO NOT BREED. BBS can be hard to hatch and live blackworms are expensive. If you can’t provide the proper food for them to grow 1in or more inches a month DO NOT BREED. Axolotls grow 1 or more inches a month with proper food, no 6+ month axolotls will be 3 inches, this axolotl has become stunted due to the lack of nutrients. It could grow to normal size once it's given the correct food or it can stay a mini.
I know I sound like a broken record, but people need to put their pride aside and do what’s best for axolotls in the pet trade and mass breeding and breeding unknown genetics isn’t it.
By: Shoni Nicole Tanner at Oregon Axolotls

ADOPTED!I still have these 2 wild babies looking for 🏡! Peaches and Cobbler, s*x unknown.
10/11/2022

ADOPTED!
I still have these 2 wild babies looking for 🏡! Peaches and Cobbler, s*x unknown.

ADOPTED! 🥰This is pickle! The first 3 photos are the day we rescued him, June 6th! Till today! He has come a long way an...
08/23/2022

ADOPTED! 🥰
This is pickle! The first 3 photos are the day we rescued him, June 6th! Till today! He has come a long way and is getting so big! 🥰

08/23/2022

Hungry little baby 🥰❤️

Pickle is over 3 inches! 🥰 recovering so well!
07/30/2022

Pickle is over 3 inches! 🥰 recovering so well!

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