Axolotl Spawn Chat and Tips

[Gemificus]

Thought I would make a thread in here for anyone who has Axolotl spawn weather you bought it from the classifieds recently or have some at home yourself or experience keeping it,

thought instead of clogging up the classifieds original thread with chat and help we could do it here,

at first i was worried that mine may die as my last ones seemed to melt away and the new ones are the same colour as they were, and i have been told they turn grey when they die so i couldn't tell,

new ones are doing fab according to this guide Axolotls - Embryo Photo Logand every now and then one of them flickers like its dreaming (i know its not dreaming)

how are everyone Else's doing?

[marcuswinner1]

I got some a week or so ago for the first time. They have pretty much all hatched over the last 2 days and look pretty good. I ordered a load of daphnia and have put it in with them, seems to be plenty of baby daphnia in amongst the big ones so hoping they will start feeding as soon as they are ready. Was advised to split them up into groups just incase anything goes wrong, that way i wont loose the lot. seems like good advice. good luck!

[Gemificus]

I was thinking for doing the same thing with mine once they start to hatch place them in small groups in separate tanks only problem i think is knowing when it will be safe to start moving them

[Gemificus]

i woke up this morning and the eggs have gone all furry, the axolotls are still flickering about in there so i know there not dead, gonna do a water change in a min when i got for a brew,

how are everyone else's doing?

[marcuswinner1]

A few of mine went furry but the majority still hatched, would be a bit worried if too many were furry though. Moved some of mine to another container 24 hours after hatching with a small fine net, all still doing fine.

[Gemificus]

cool i would be over joyed if just one of them hatched and survived

[dodgy]

hi gemificus
did you condition the water before you put the spawn in, like the day before at least?
i got some from the same person n loads of mine hatched already!
have you got some sort of filtration goin or an air stone?
if you can try and remove the furry 1's but dont throw them, stick em in a tub with fresh conditioned water, they might still hatch.
if you have any that is still round or looks like a flat round splat these can be chucked, as they are deffo dead.
try n keep em at 75f/76f, little bit warmer than adult 1's are kept.
good luck.

[Gemificus]

i set up and conditioned the hatching tank on the Monday and got the spawn on the Tuesday, i have in it a small air powered sponge filter i use theses for all my breeding tanks, temperature is at room temp so slightly over 20 degrees c,

I'm a little worried about one of them it looks almost fully forms and is twitching around like it's having a really bad dream (i know its not dreaming) it's in one egg with 2 other that i haven't seen move i fear they may be dead will they kill that one too?

i will start conditioning a sep tub now

[shiftylou]

got mine on tuesday. Set them up in a tank with a filter and a heater as the tank is in the cold cellar, just set the heater on the lowest setting of 20.c I have counted ruffly 18 that are growing well! I can now see there gills developing.

Going to order some daphnia but bought some brine shrimp eggs which im hoping to hatch to feed them.

[GemzD26]

Hey Guys,

Just wondering did all the eggs hatch then?

How they doing?

Ive never had eggs before but may in the future,just wanted o get any info so i will know if they are easy to maintain or not!

Thanks