Raising Axolotls

[KingCam]

and I supplement feedings with a mixture of boiled egg yolk and liquidated bloodworms that I sometimes pour a few drops in while they are feeding on BBS.

The egg/worm mixture actually helped me with 2 albinos I am also raising when I had a bad batch of BBS eggs. They lived well off of it for nearly 5 days until I could get a decent batch going. The albinos are now forming their front legs and doing well

That's good information to know!! Thanks for that helpful tip

[Jenste]

Update post

So this morning I separated wildtypes from goldens...by hand! Also got a closer look at a lot of the babies and discovered a few albinos and leucistics in the bunch!
None of the leucistics were caught by my camera (realized this as I was uploading the photos)
First photo is wildtypes, second is golden albinos and albinos



And I have had to separate Butters from Reese because he got her again...I just scooped more eggs out of the plants in the tank. Naughty little lotls!
But in all seriousness, she needs a break and I don't want her to become ill so Butters is going to be spending time in a bachelor pad for the next few weeks.

[Jenste]

Heartbroken to post this....

Something must have gone wrong between water changes/feedings yesterday while dividing up the babies...


All the wildtypes died. I am devastated. I wish I knew what was the cause of 60+ deaths.

[rodsboys]

Just noticed this thread. Exciting to be raising all these guys I bet. Sorry to hear about losses though.

[Jenste]

Thanks. It definitely is different than raising ACF! My tank room looks like a mad scientist's with all of the bubbling brine shrimp hatcheries.

[Niels D]

Lucky for you that you spreaded the larvae by putting them in diffirent containers. I assume the others are doing well, because it looks like you're doing a very good job!

[rodsboys]

Thanks. It definitely is different than raising ACF! My tank room looks like a mad scientist's with all of the bubbling brine shrimp hatcheries.

A tank room sounds great. My wife swears after the newt ordeal of 2000-2002 and the recent clownfish invasion of 2008/2009 I will never be allowed "a bunch of tanks" again. lol. We are moving this spring to a larger house so perhaps a tank room is in the works.

[Jenste]

Right now it is in one of the main floor "bedrooms"....in a few years when we have kids this will be moved to one of the basement rooms.

Right now there is the 72 gallon bow front tank, the 36 gallon bow front tank, four 30 gallon tubs, four 10 gallon tanks, one 7 gallon tank, two 3 gallon tanks, and a bunch of small 1/2 gallon kritter keepers. It's a bit crazy and I will be doing a bunch of tank sorting in the next few weeks before my husband kills me!