Axolotl eggs!!!

[Shanny]

You know another place you could probably check out if that guy doesn't ever get back to you, Caudata.org. I'm a member of that forum too and people post stuff in classifieds a lot of the time. Just like the guy I got these eggs from, people can't handle hundreds at a time and they need others to take them off there hands. Maybe you will get lucky and find someone near your area. Just do a little networking


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[Shanny]

Day 10, I used my partners camera but couldn't find cords for it... So these are pictures of pictures haha, but better because I could zoom in. They are really clear if I could just find the cord, but oh well...





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[Heatheranne]

It's so neat seeing them develop. They seem to be growing fast.

[koyuchan]

WHOAH that's nice to hear shanny can't wait to see the babies ! what do the babies eat? :O

[Shanny]

Yes they are growing so fast I'm just really excited for the day they hatch .
Well since they can't smell when they are born, they will only eat live, moving food for the like the first month. So live, just hatched baby brine shrimp, baby daphnia things like that. I've heard how big of a pain in the butt baby brine shrimp are to deal with, but unfortunately that is all I could get my hands on locally. I wanted to get daphnia cuz they stay alive longer, but I doubt any place will ship here cuz it's cold right now.
But, once they're off the bbs, I can start feeding them frozen blood worms and they will probably start taking pellets at that time as well.
I do have a culture of springtails for my RETF terrarium and I was going to try and see if the baby axolotls would eat those as well since they live in fresh water and I have plenty... But we will see :-)

[Shanny]

Alright so I came into check on my eggs today after dropping my partner off at work, and I find that some eggs have already hatched! It is only day 11 and as of right now I have 8 little axolotl babies:-D
I decided to separate them right away into there own little containers just because I figure I can keep better track of them eating and all.


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[Shanny]

This is the only one out of the 8 that have hatched so far, that looks to have dark pigmentation.
he is in cup #8

The other 7 look like this...
cup #3
The pic isn't that clear, but he has yellow pigment on his head.




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[koyuchan]

Omg It's hatched !!! Now, just wait for the legs to show up

[Shanny]

Yes, only 8 though... I keep on going in and checking on the rest of the eggs, they are moving quite a bit but none look to be hatching yet. The guy I got these from said his female started laying eggs late at night on the 27th and when he woke up there were twice as many... So some may have been laid early the 28th. If I wake up tmr and no more have hatched I may or may not help them along, it all depends.


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[Shanny]

Woke up this morning and only 1 more egg has hatched

[Sarosaurus]

I remember the excitement of watching the babies develop and hatch. Unfortunately, I was not prepared for it so my batches were never successful. And after a while I got tired of clearing out the eggs to bring in to my manager at work...so now he has my female axolotl and I have another male. Haha.

Good luck with your babies!

[Heatheranne]

Yay!

[Shanny]

Yeah they are already proving to be a lot of work.

As of 1/8, which was day 12, I had 6 more eggs hatch. And so far today only 2 more have hatched.
Some of the babies that hatched on day 11 are starting to eat bbs, but it's making me a little nervous. So today I ordered live daphnia and hope to see that come in a couple of days.
As of right now I have 7 more that have yet to hatch... Obviously I was off in my previous posts haha because that is 23, which I did not include the 5 or so unfertilized eggs. So 23 babies, wow haha!

I'm going to try and help the others along so that the rest hatch today or tomorrow. I already have a feeding schedule set up for them depending on which day they hatched.


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[Shanny]

I helped the others along later last night, so all of my babies are hatched

[koyuchan]

Congratulations , Shanny !

[Heatheranne]

That's wonderful!!! I can't wait to see them as they grow .

If I didn't have 5 frogs, 2 fish, and a cat already I'd want one .

[Shanny]

Me either, I can see that the majority of them are growing little arm buds already, I have to look close though
Yeah I know what u mean, I have 2 cats, 4 red eye tree frogs, and 2 almost 1year old axolotls already. I wanted to keep one or two of the babies. And on top of that I have a 12x12x18 terrarium I want to either get a gold dust day gecko or a male L. Williamsi to house in there... But I'm going to TRY and wait until these baby axolotls are grown a few months so that I can sell them to there homes before I get my gecko.. Lol I don't want the significant other to get too mad at me haha!

[Heatheranne]

Haha!