FYI: A bag of Gold!

[Gothica Lily]

Okay,

Today we have tried to add some adult brine shrimp to the baby brine shrimp. They have freaked out! I presume it's natural for them to be scared the first time. I will keep adding the adult BS: hopefully they will get used to them and try to have a nibble.

They are so far not interested in anything that doesn't move and unfortunately are not hunting out baby brine shrimp... There is plenty left every time I do water changes and they don't seem to eat much at all recently.

I am thinking maybe this batch was Peony's first one and was weakish: she laid about 100 eggs out of which 59 were fertile. Few embrios died in development, but overall we have about 15 strong axolotls out of it (and the rest are just normal).

Hmmmmm....

 

[RandallRock]

I'm interested to know what you have going on in the 4th photo of the 7 shown earlier. what are those tubes? I've never seen anything quite like it. I breed axolotls myself and would be interested in learning a new trick.

~Aaron

 

[Dalabrae]

G'day Aaron

Sorry about the delayed reply, been doing an assignment for uni when I'm not harvesting the BBS.

The fourth photo is of my BBS hatcheries, as I'm sure you've worked out. Rather than having a heater in each of the hatcheries I decided to have the bottles (2 litre Coke bottles) float in a tub (approx. 70 litres) with a 200W heater, and a small filter pump (minus the actual filter) to circulate the water around the tub.

I think you are referring to the white tubes over the top of the tub, they are actually curtain rails. I have made some hooks out of fencing wire to hang the bottles off the curtain rails.

Then just using convenient valves and joiners on my airlines I can disconnect and pull out the required bottle to harvest.



Dal