Baby questions

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kim

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Ok, I wasn't planning on having babies, but today when I went to syphon some of the water out to do a partial water change, I sucked up a baby!!! I imediatly stopped the flow and the baby went back into the tank. I have noticed 3 babies.

I have read on this site that you don't neccesarily need to remove the babies. They say that sometimes the parents don't eat the babies. I read that the already established tank could have benifical organisms that will help them develop.

I'm going to start growing some baby brime shrimp, so hopefully by tomorrow evening or the next day, I will be able to throw some shrimp in the tank for them.

My question is, should I remove them? If I do, should I take some of the water from the tank their in and add it to the new tank?

Like I say, I wasn't planning on babies. I though I had 2 males!!! Wrong!! So I have no idea what to do!! Any help will be appreciated! I don't want them to die!!

Thanks
JC
 
Congratulations on the surprise babies! Read the article on raising larvae and microfoods for caudate larvae. Grindalworms would be great if you can get them producing, as would microworms, daphnia, and blackworms(but this all depends on the size of the larvae. BBS should work too, esp. for young ones. For best control over feeding and being able to keep track of them taking them out is best. They do survive in tanks with the parents especially those which are well planted and set up for a long time. I find larvae occasionally in my tank of adults even without adding anything to feed them. They must fine food amongst the plants...which brings us to another point-good idea to keep plants in the larvae containers.

The main concern is when the larvae morph, as then they will be terrestrial and this will make feeding much different and perhaps trickier.

Good luck!

(Message edited by fishkeeper on June 09, 2005)
 
Thanks for the fast reply.

I was watching very closely and noticed that one adult newt was chasing the baby. So I sucked the baby out of the tank. I then found another baby and sucked him out.(with a syphon hose!!) I put them both in a small 1 gal. tank with about 3 inches of the water out of their original tank. Then I put a micro bubbler in the 1 gal tank and have it turned down pretty low. So hopefuly I'm not disturbing them to much. Also I put one of the fake plants and a few rocks from their original tank in the 1 gal. There is one more baby that is hiding under a big rock that I don't want to try to catch yet. One of my adults is sitting on the plant that the rock holds down and I think I might have some eggs there too!!

I'm going to Pet Smart tomorrow to buy some baby fish food. Hopefully that will hold them over until the brine shrimp hatch!!

If anyone has any other suggestions, they will be appreciated!!!!
 
Ok, Here's a picture of one! Sorry, it's not a very close up!!!







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What a cool surprise. That larva isn't a new hatchling. I'd guess it's 1-2 weeks old, maybe more. The fish food won't help them. You'd do better to move some tank detritus from the old tank as food. Start asking your local pet shops if they can get live blackworms.
 
I have live blood worms!! I'm feeding my adult newts the blood worms. (actualy I think they are tubifex worms. It's the only thing my local pet shop sells "live".) My newts love them!!!

Do I need to chop them up? Or can I just drop them in the tank. In fact when I was capturing the babies, I ended up catching some worms that had escaped the adults. They are in with the babies right now!!

Will the newly hatched brine shrimp be benaficial to them? Or am I wasting my time with that?

I wish I didn't have to take them out of the big tank, but they were being chased. What is detritus?

The water they are in is from the old tank, along with a few rocks. I plan on doing water changes daily with them, but I'm going to use the water from the old tank for the changes. That way they get any organisms that may be in that water!! I'll do this till they get big enough to actually survive on their own, so to speak!!

Thanks
Kim

(Message edited by justcruzin on June 09, 2005)
 
What you have are actually live blackworms. Some pet shops call them "bloodworms" but if you compare them to real bloodworms (usually bought frozen in cubes), they are not the same. Yes, chop them and the larvae will do great on that!

By detritus, I meant that brown crud in the bottom of the tank, under the gravel. That's where naturally-occuring tank micro-organisms hang out. But if you have chopped blackworms, you don't need to do that.

Some newly hatched brine shrimp will be much enjoyed by the larvae. However, if you have chopped blackworms, you could get away without it. The baby brine shrimp are most useful during the first couple of weeks, until they are big enough to eat the chopped blackworms; the newt larva you show in the photo is big enough to go for chopped blackworms, no problem.
 
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