Axolotl Spawn Chat and Tips

[marcuswinner1]

Hi all, after my initial problem with one set getting a fungal problem, the other set are all doing brilliantly, started eating small daphnia after 48 hours and have more than doubled in size in the 3 days since then, they had a growth spurt in the last 24 hours and have eaten all the big daphnia too! better get some more tomorrow! Think i have about 25.

[shiftylou]

1 more has hatched lol. they all seem to be ready to hatch any hour though.

[Gemificus]

my two got fed last night it was great watching them chase the daphnia round and catch it but unfortunately upon waking this morning we lost one of our babies and now i just have the 1 left any tips on housing him until he is bigger and keeping him alive

[sami]

I used live brine shrimp when mine were tiny, and daphnia when they were a bit bigger.

The best advice I was given when I was raising mine was to set up a daphnia culture.. A small tank, with rainwater in it... Loads of packs of live daphnia, and leave it alone until the babies are big enough to eat it.. Then hopefully there's enough being produced in there to feed them!

They need a pretty much constant food supply!

Now i'm thinking about it again, I miss my axolotls! I might have to get some spawn next year and start all over again. Was going to buy some interesting coloured young ones from PRAS, but the guy was gone when I went back

[Gemificus]

i have a daphnia culture setup and i use a syringe and suck out the very tiny ones it dose take a while but i don't want to feed them more than they can chew, i can sit for house sucking up tiny daphina cos i have 3 breeding tanks on the go all with small fry in them and all of them eat those tiny specs,

at the moment my axolotl is in a container inside a 1ft by 6 inch tank, i split all the eggs into similar containers inside this tank, i know they tank will be big enough for the axolotl once it grows a little until it is a few inches in size and ready to move into the 2ft tank

just looking for tips on how big it should be before i move it into the bigger space and any tips on keeping it going until then,

thinking of moving it into the kitchen where it is a little cooler at night and easier to do water changes daily

[shiftylou]

I have ordered live daphnia how long does it take for them to breed?

Some brine shrimp have hatched, hopefully most will hatch tomorrow for me feeding them!

[Fuzzball]

we have had 6 hatch so far, not sure how many more as the remaining ones all seem at different stages of development

[Fuzzball]

How are everybody else's axolotl doing?

We had all of them hatch, the last popped out yesterday so we now have 21 babies happily eating live Daphnia for the time being. Our LFS is ordering me some different types of food in for them.

[adamntitch]

only some of mine have hatched did have more but my live food never turned up on time so lost them luckly the other lot of live turned up this morning so there mostly all feeding now got a few i dont think will live tho

theres a good seller on ebay i got my live food from he will send you small daphnia or the bigger stuff if you ask

[Gemificus]

my little guys doing great, he get daily water changes and food and hes growing bigger and bigger, waiting for a new camera i ordered soon as i get it I'll take pics of it, thinking of moving him into a 1ft by 6inch tank so he can start to grow as big as he needs