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If you're inquiring with regard to using photos or textual material from this site, please skip straight to the form by clicking here.  If you just want to send me a message that doesn't require a response, please also skip straight to the form.

I first began to write this site whilst I was still an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin, in the late 1990s. This site finally went live on the Internet in 1999, and in the years since then it has grown far beyond my expectations. Believe it or not, between 1999 and 2002 I received at least 3 axolotl questions each and every day. 90% of these questions were clearly answered on the site. I then created the Frequently Asked Questions Page to deal with the majority of these questions and most of the remaining 10%. However, people kept emailing. Why did people persist in emailing me the same old questions? It was less effort for them to ask me a question than to actually read the web site.  It made me wonder why I bothered to write the site in the first place.

This site is superior to any "pet" book currently available on the subject of axolotls (sorry Professor Scott!).  The site has even won awards, and several of the photos on display here can be seen in books, the most recent of which is a Physiology textbook published by Prentice Hall/Pearson in the USA.

Why am I telling you all of this?  So you will save us both some time.  How?  By reading the Frequently Asked Questions Page, and if your question isn't answered there, please search the site.  If you can't find the answer to your question, the best place to ask is the Axolotl Forum at Caudata.org.  There you will find a huge archive of questions and answers that have been asked over the years, and plenty of your fellow axolotl enthusiasts to talk to about your axolotls.  The great thing about the forum is that your question and answer will be available for anyone else to see.  So please, do save us both some time and pursue the other options first.

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