Axolotl Spawn Chat and Tips

[marcuswinner1]

well, so much for splitting them up incase there is a problem! the ones i moved to another container all got a fungal infection and died...rubbish. all the ones i left in the tank they hatched in are fine. think the pot i put the dead lot in was too small a body of water. at least ive still got the other lot.

[GemzD26]

Hi,

Aww thats a shame sorry to hear that!!!

So how many have you got left now???

[Gemificus]

I split pretty much ever egg separate, the triplet who was dreaming has turned the same colour as the other two i think its pegged it,

i have 3 possibly 4 that look like they are still alive one of them in particular is quite active inside the egg but each of them are sharing eggs with dead siblings so I'm hoping they start to hatch reasonably soon to prevent them dying as each egg is split into a diff container there is no risk of contamination so I'm going to leave them all just in case of some miracle,

[Gemificus]

Yay!!! two of my lil guys hatched thru the night, trick now is to keep them alive hehehe, there are 3 eggs that i cannot say are 100% percent dead all fingers and toes crossed,

how long before i need to feed them, the pet shop round here that sells live food has non in until Tuesday will they be OK until then? i have only tubifex in at the mo but those will be too big won't they can you chop tubifex?

any tips on moving the live babies into a diff tub without stressing them out?

[Pimperella]

All mine seemed Grey when I got them. None have changed or moved in anyway and I assuming they were all already dead. I had a few that where twin and triplet eggs and only one had looked to have developed in each each, the others beening splattered blobs.
Looks like mine died before they even got to me to be honest.

[Gemificus]

i originally thought that about mine tbh but they have surprised me maybe hold out for just a couple more days, i actually thought the first one that hatched last night was dead cos seemed to change slightly came to bed and it was swimming around, so i removed the twin that doesn't look 100% dead compared to how that one looked so i have popped twin in egg in separate container, the one that i found had hatched this morning that one was also a twin but that was def dead so i removed that soon as i could

[shiftylou]

mines havent hatched yet, but on count I have what looks like 18 formed with gills etc. and 4 that are round blobs that are going furry. not going to seperated them as they are all in 1 mass. when they all hatch i will remove them. they dont need to eat for a few days I read as the absorb the yolk and will remain in the tank floor till they do so, once they start swimming I think they feed.

[GemzD26]

Hi guys,

See below link think it might give you some help with your babies

http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/why_larvae_die.shtml

[shiftylou]

1 of my babies have hatch! 17 more to go, proberly hatch tonite!

[Fuzzball]

im not too sure what mine are doing either, the eggs are furry-ish but were like that when they arrived, but they seem to be developing, they actually look like little axolotl now will gills etc, but I cant seem them moving at all, ive stared and stared at them and nothing!! My brother has successfully raised some though so gonna get him to have a look at them