A Lot'l 'Lotls
Nov. 12th, 2024 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senashentaWHEN I first got Kaida, he had a wild-type coloration to his head and a lavender-type coloration to his body and he was really quirky and unique, which was why I chose him. But as he's GROWN, his COLOR has changed, darker and darker until now he's like... black with darker black spots and purple gills, which the Interwebs tells me is a variation of a melanistic axolotl! THIS IS VERY COOL! I WANTED a melanistic axolotl, but I couldn't FIND one so I went with the next best (cutest) thing, and then I ended up with a melanistic one after all! :D
The two that I'm picking up today are (I'm pretty sure) both just wild-types, which is the most common coloration, I believe, but that's fine with me! I'm not picky when it comes to 'lotls! (Except I would love a leucistic one lmao but that seems to not be in the cards, at least not right now.)
Last night I did a Deep Clean of the axolotl tank in anticipation of the new arrivals today and Kaida was SO. MAD AT ME. But he was last time, too. And I moved some stuff around a bit which doesn't help matters, and took one of the smaller hides out that isn't really big enough anymore. He was huffy all night. Soon I'm going to have to get another big hide, though, and take out the little terracotta pots because he's outgrowing them and his siblings will be about the same size.
ALSO. I have tentatively decided to try the worm thing again. Feeding pellets to THREE axolotls is going to get expensive. And also, they need to stay used to eating worms at least occasionally so when they're full grown they recognize them as, you know, FOOD. So. Worms again. Which absolutely makes my skin crawl just thinking about cutting them up, but it is what it is I guess. Eventually they'll be big enough so just eat them whole. JUST KEEP THE FUTURE IN SIGHT, SENA. YOU CAN DO THIS.
In NON-axolotl related news, I finished just over 2,000 words on TKA today so I'm on track even though the rest of the day is going to be busy. I'm hoping I can bust out another 2,500 or so tonight after I feed the cats and put them to bed. I'm up to 35,276 words total right now, which is FANTASTIC for the 12th of the month. I might actually beat the NaNo this year (for the first time!!) TOUCH WOOD!!
But even if I beat the NANO, TKA probably isn't going to be FINISHED by the 30th, since I'm aiming for 80,000-ish words for the completed project. So I'll still have work to do, but I'll have a HELL of a good start on it! :D
The two that I'm picking up today are (I'm pretty sure) both just wild-types, which is the most common coloration, I believe, but that's fine with me! I'm not picky when it comes to 'lotls! (Except I would love a leucistic one lmao but that seems to not be in the cards, at least not right now.)
Last night I did a Deep Clean of the axolotl tank in anticipation of the new arrivals today and Kaida was SO. MAD AT ME. But he was last time, too. And I moved some stuff around a bit which doesn't help matters, and took one of the smaller hides out that isn't really big enough anymore. He was huffy all night. Soon I'm going to have to get another big hide, though, and take out the little terracotta pots because he's outgrowing them and his siblings will be about the same size.
ALSO. I have tentatively decided to try the worm thing again. Feeding pellets to THREE axolotls is going to get expensive. And also, they need to stay used to eating worms at least occasionally so when they're full grown they recognize them as, you know, FOOD. So. Worms again. Which absolutely makes my skin crawl just thinking about cutting them up, but it is what it is I guess. Eventually they'll be big enough so just eat them whole. JUST KEEP THE FUTURE IN SIGHT, SENA. YOU CAN DO THIS.
In NON-axolotl related news, I finished just over 2,000 words on TKA today so I'm on track even though the rest of the day is going to be busy. I'm hoping I can bust out another 2,500 or so tonight after I feed the cats and put them to bed. I'm up to 35,276 words total right now, which is FANTASTIC for the 12th of the month. I might actually beat the NaNo this year (for the first time!!) TOUCH WOOD!!
But even if I beat the NANO, TKA probably isn't going to be FINISHED by the 30th, since I'm aiming for 80,000-ish words for the completed project. So I'll still have work to do, but I'll have a HELL of a good start on it! :D
