my babies, and their babies

Hi There

Im new here and wanted to say hi to everyone and to post some pics of my axies, and their eggs. This is their first ever batch!

Hi, welcome to the site.
Good luck with raising your new babies, I hope they thrive for you.

Hi
what lovely babies (and parents too )

you might want to put the eggs in a seperate tank/hatchery or there's a risk the proud parents may eat them!

Thanks for the comments, yep, I have already taken the eggs out, that picture is of them in another tank.

eggs have finally hatched yay!

Ohh they are so cute. You will now spend every waking hour waiting for legs

Awwww they are adorable.

They are beautiful They all will be golden albino, am I right?

aww..those golden parents are just so lovely..I just hope that one of my babies gould be golden albino..:/ I just got them home..

thanks for the comments guys, ill post more pics as they develop. We have aprox 103 all together! Six have died pretty much straight from hatching but all of the others are doing really well and eating fine. We have about 5 eggs that havent hatched yet but the babies in them are well developed and move inside of their egg sack...I think they are just being a bit slow or lazy lol.
They are a week old now. We had one that seemed to only swim in circles so we seperated him/her from the rest so he had more of a chance to get some food and it's doing ok now, swimming in a straight line and everything so im not sure what was wrong with him/her but im glad it's ok now!

I thought i'd post some up to date pics of the babies and a picture of the Mum and Dads tank which I changed about for them. They seem to love sitting in the plants.

What a great set up! Sounds like you've done a great job with them. How many babies have you got now?
I'm new to axolotls (9 days new) and my pair have just had their first eggs! Any advice?

We still have 103 and the mother has just laid another batch of eggs. Unfortunately I think my partner is going to cull them as we do not have the space or equipment to for them. We ideally want to separate the parents however as we have so many babies we do not have the space to do so. Hopefully when we've re homed the babies we can then separate them.

To be honest this is our first batch so I‘m no expert but I’m surprised that so many of them are still alive!

We separated the eggs from the parents and placed the eggs in a separate tank. I went out and purchased a longish tub (like the ones you store things under your bed with), cleaned it and put some water in it with treatment and waited for it to mature. When the eggs hatched we split the babies between the longish tub and the other smaller tank that we have. In the tub and the tank we put some oxygenating plants and pebbles for them to hide between and they seem to be doing fine but they've eaten me out of house and home

I think the best advice is to make sure that when they get bigger you have enough space to separate them as they will start to attack each other as their eye sight is very poor and they will try to eat anything that moves near them. We haven't reached that stage yet but we should do in a few weeks. As they hatched at different times some of them are more developed then the others.

Check out http://www.axolotl.org/rearing.htm for some helpful info.

Picture update of the babies and parents new and improved tank Sorry about the reflection in the pictures of the tank. I think if you look carefully enough in the second picture of the baby you can see very tiny, almost see through legs.

up to date pics. They have their front legs now...finally! It seems to have taken forever! lol

haha sweet! Now you'll be impatient for the hind legs...

Your parents and babies are so adorable! Congratulations!

They are really gorgeous