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Well, she's been there for 1.5 years, and it hasn't affected her yet. Besides, my apartment is very small, and it's either there next to the sink or upstairs where the AC doesn't work so it's always 85 degrees. We do take special care not to get anything IN her tank, and I think she enjoys being in the center of all the action. She "follows" us around when we're cooking, and dishwashing time is her favorite time after feeding time.
If you really want one, I'd think long and hard before getting one from a petstore. I also post over on the caudata.org forums, and we get stories all the time about axolotls from petstores that are in such bad condition they can't be saved.
If they are properly taken care of, they can easily live more than 10 years. Mine is almost 4 years old now. You can't really take them out and play with them, as another poster said, it's very bad for their skin.
Some people will tell you it's much cooler to force them to metemorphose by giving them hormones, but this shortens their lifespan drastically. Besides, you could just get a tiger salamander, which is pretty much the same animal except for the fact that it metamorphoses into a terrestrial salamander naturally.
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