Question: Babies hatching! :) and a question

[Anna F]

I have baby axies hatching right now. I am pretty okay on the whole feeding bit but my question is, how often should I do at least a partial water change with the babies?

 

[willowcat]

Do at least two "complete" water changes a day. It depends more on the death rate of the bbs. Death means fowl water.

 

[wandering]

I used a different method very successfully. In a small tank (around 15litres) I hatched around 80 eggs. Once a day I lowered the water level to an inch, cleaned the bottom with a turkey baster, and fed BBS and microworms. After an hour I topped up the water to around 8 inches with dechlorinated at the same temperature. Lost only an occasional larva. At front leg stage I added white worm and chopped defrosted bloodworm to their diet for the larger ones.

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[auntiejude]

I started by moving the babies to a clean fresh tub daily once all the uneaten BBS had stopped moving. It seemd easier to move babies to a clean tub rather than clean around them. Thats a 100% change daily all the while they are on BBS.

Now they are a month old and onto bloodworms and daphnia I change about 70-80% daily, with poop scoops every time I pass by.

 

[Anna F]

Thanks everyone! I am absolutely over the moon on how many hatched. Of the 50 I was sent, I maybe lost two or three.
I bought a little five gallon tank to divide them up a bit, I didn't have much available to put them in before, so just used a plastic tub.

 

[Anna F]

Little ones are doing wonderfully! I am glad there is this forum to come to for information!