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Axolotl

Ambystoma mexicanum · North America

Requirements at a glance

Scientific name

Ambystoma mexicanum

Status

Critically Endangered

Biomes

Lakes and Rivers

Temperature

15–20 °C

Humidity

80–90 %

Food / period

$225

Getting the exhibit right

Axolotl is an exhibit animal: it lives in a terrarium-style exhibit rather than an enclosure you build from barriers. Cheap to house, but unforgiving on two numbers.

Hold the exhibit at 15–20 °C with humidity at 80–90%. Exhibits fail quietly — welfare drifts when the climate slips, and by the time the alert appears you have usually lost a breeding cycle. Set both values before adding the animal.

With no land requirement, exhibits are the cheapest way to add species variety to a small zoo, and several count toward conservation goals. Guests walk past them quickly compared with a big habitat, though.

Compatible species

None listed — keep this species on its own or in a single-species group.

Budgeting this habitat

Food runs about $225 per period. See how that compares across the roster in our food cost ranking, or start from the best starter animals if this is a first zoo.

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Figures from the official Planet Zoo 2 Zoopedia, checked 2026-10-21; patches can change them — trust your in-game build menu if they differ. Official entry. Artwork © Frontier Developments; used here for identification.