Apparently there are breeders making Axolotls and they only go for a few hundred bucks at most. How is this possible? And how are so many people able to own them as pets if they are very close to extinction?
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They do really well in controlled environments like pet breeding or scientific breeding.
They are absolutely struggling to live in the wild. One of the two/three lakes where they are found is gone, dried up for irrigation. The other is rapidly shrinking. Ontop of those invasive fish started to eat axolot Young. Normal wouldn’t be an issue if you had a super large lake to hide in. Now the lake is like half to a quarter of it’s size.
Basically they are endangered because their wild status is endangered. We could most likely keep axolotls as a species a live for a long time with how well they do in the lab even if they become extinct in the wild.
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