Raising Axolotls

[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!

[Jenste]

Batch#1 - - From January 10th. Eggs bought online.
The two albinos are doing well. Waddling around on front arms, eating chopped up frozen bloodworms.




Batch#2 - From Feb 5th.
Eating BBS - - watch for their little "jumps" as they go after the tiny shrimp floating by
Little Lotls eating Brine Shrimp. - YouTube

A few of them are *just* starting to bud their little arms....can't be picked up by the camera but the naked eye can see if it stares long enough where your eyes threaten to tear up and leave you cross-eyed.





Batch#3 From Feb 25th. They should be hatching soon!

[Jenste]

Batch#2 has been cleared out! Lots of great new homes popped up. I will save a couple of hatchlings from the next batch to photograph their development.

Batch#1 is doing good. I ended up separating them due to the difference in size. There is a quite a bit of difference in their sizes and I wanted to be able to monitor the smaller siblings food intake