FYI: Cannibalistic babies!

[NooNoo Kz]

We have reached day 5 and they have grown and most are about 2 cm. But they ate one of their family (found a little bit of the body and one wasnt there so yeah I've had to seperate!) so I put them in little tubs of 1-2. They're doing really well with the water changes and stuff, they are eating the daphnia as there was little left this morning! Anyway, there was 10 eggs unhatched last night so we got to work and was able to hatch the eggs with a knife and our fingers and they are perfectly fine. I think they were just struggling a little bit!! We now are preparing for the other 300+ to hatch in the other tank (same lot of eggs). Collecting tubs rapidly!! Really impressed watching them grow!!
-Nick And Kasey

 

[xxianxx]

Hope youve got a brine shrimp hatchery on the go, 300 axys will consume a shed load of daphnia!

 

[NooNoo Kz]

Lol I know!! I just brought one yesterday, have a bit of daphnia left but not much. I'm making another 4 daphnia cultures so then I have loads lol.

 

[xxianxx]

Its amazing how much daphnia you can go through! i prefer daphnia because it doesnt effect the water quality so much but BBS is far more convenient.

 

[Kaysie]

I just have to say this: You're nuts for trying to raise 300 babies!

I've never raised more than 150 at a time, and it's nearly impossible to get rid of them all and you end up with sub-adults.

 

[NooNoo Kz]

Lol I have loads of people interested in getting some, and a huge area setup for them lol (my bedroom floor looks like a drug lab...) And yeap Ian, daphnia all the way but geesh I thought the one tub would be good for a month or so, it lasted 2 weeks. I have collected alot of the daphnia babies left over from their food and put it into a different breeding tub lol.

 

[Jake]

A lot of people try Daphnia and find that there is really no way to keep up with that many larvae for an extended period of time feeding only Daphnia. In reality you would need a pond in order to sustain enough Daphnia to feed all of those mouths. The tub cultures are nice to fall back on if other foods fail, but for 300 larvae the cultures would need to be hundreds of gallons and the supply would still run out before they went through their first month. Axolotl larvae grow so big so fast they require a LOT of food.

 

[Kaysie]

I agree with Jake. My last batch was less than 100, and I had a heck of a time keeping up enough daphnia. As soon as they're big enough, switch them to something else. I like blackworms, but they're expensive and hard to find sometimes.

 

[NooNoo Kz]

Yeap, i also agree., daphnia is hard. I have 4 tubs of it breeding rapidly, I also have BBS eggs now. I even have micro whiteworm as well. I even have frozen bloodworm too!! I think I should be right for now! Thanks guys

 

[xxianxx]

A lot of people try Daphnia and find that there is really no way to keep up with that many larvae for an extended period of time feeding only Daphnia. In reality you would need a pond in order to sustain enough Daphnia to feed all of those mouths. The tub cultures are nice to fall back on if other foods fail, but for 300 larvae the cultures would need to be hundreds of gallons and the supply would still run out before they went through their first month. Axolotl larvae grow so big so fast they require a LOT of food.

I agree 100%. I would prefer to use daphnia as there are less problems with water fouling than when using brine shrimp, however my daphnia tub could really only feed about ten babys for the first month, so i grow my own BBS and use the daphnia as an emergency food or when the population needs culling.

 

[NooNoo Kz]

That is why I have preferred daphnia up until now, my first lot of BBS has hatched too!