Baby update

[david]

Here's some of the latest baby pics. Start saving your nickels and dimes, because some of these will be donated for auction to support the site come the fall.

My apaunus are doing well. They are starting major morphing activities and I've got a couple of dozen out of the water and another 60 or so lurking in the weeds.

 

[david]

The dobros are starting morph activities too. I've got a dozen or so that have morphed and another 50 or so that aren't far behind.

(Message edited by dln on June 10, 2006)

 

[david]

Last years baby karelinii from Jen's stock decided to go nuts. I've got a dozen or so out of water and another 100 or so larvae in various stages of development.

 

[david]

And the strauchii from Jen's eggs are coming along nicely.

 

[david]

The marms were a bit off this year, but all in all, it's been a good season

 

[felipe]

Wow! Beautifull newts! Very nice photos too!!! I hope my newts have some babies soon too!

 

[javier]

How do you feed them? They are morphing at a very big size!

 

[joseph]

Great job Dave! It looks like just about all who want to will be able to enjoy some of these newts.

 

[ester]

Thanks for all the wonderful pictures, looks like the animals are very happy and well cared for!

 

[phoebe]

They are wonderfull!!! They seem to be growing well, do please tell me what you feed them and how, as mine have just hatched.

 

[pin-pin]

Congrats Dave.

 

[david]

I start them out on daphnia. I usually get the Magna daphnia and my babies eat the daphnia babies until they're big enough to munch on adults, and then I switch them over to live blackworms. I think keeping my apartment at 68F and trying to keep the water quality up helps keep them from needing to morph smaller or younger

 

[phoebe]

Daphnier, i have some live, i will look into their breeding, thanks.

 

[mark]

Sterling efforts Dave. It's really great to see European newts being bred in good numbers across the pond. WC triturus (and former triturus) are always on offer in Europe which may make it less desirable to raise large numbers of CB newts. Hopefully one day we can return the favour by breeding good numbers of Ambystomids and Plethodontids...

 

[jennifer]

Ever since Dave posted this thread in June, I've been meaning to take some photos of "this year's crop" here too. So here are my current "baby pictures". The species are M. alpestris apuanus, Neurergus strauchii strauchii, and C. ensicauda popei.

 

[joseph]

Good going Jenn! All three species look to be coming along nicely. Weird how all those strauchii are bunched up on top of the flowerpot. Also, is that popei semiaquatic already?

 

[david]

Glad the apaunus kicked in for you Jen. All the pics are great as usual