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Axolotls are illegal in California. Please read this thread for detailed information and links to the actual laws: https://www.caudata.org/threads/axolotls-are-illegal-in-california-here-are-the-relevant-laws.30779/
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With regards to any eggs left in the parent tank..these will hatch and gradually be eaten. I know my male had consumed some of the eggs when they where initially laid, we had been away for a week and he was hungry, this however stopped when I started to feed him again.
The remainder of the eggs I left in two tanks out side , with the intention of giving them away. I did but forgot the ones in the second tank. By the time I remembered them they had hatched, but as the water temps where cooler they did not grow as fast as the ones I'd kept for my self inside. When it came to needing the tank I tipped the out door larvae into a yank I keep outside for the daphnia, blood worm etc. These in turn got fed to the bigger larvae indoors. I have to say I felt a little uneasy about doing this , but I felt just chucking them out would be far worse. Any unhatched eggs I tipped into the garden in an open sunny patch...1/2 an hour later they where gone.
The remainder of the eggs I left in two tanks out side , with the intention of giving them away. I did but forgot the ones in the second tank. By the time I remembered them they had hatched, but as the water temps where cooler they did not grow as fast as the ones I'd kept for my self inside. When it came to needing the tank I tipped the out door larvae into a yank I keep outside for the daphnia, blood worm etc. These in turn got fed to the bigger larvae indoors. I have to say I felt a little uneasy about doing this , but I felt just chucking them out would be far worse. Any unhatched eggs I tipped into the garden in an open sunny patch...1/2 an hour later they where gone.
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Some Axolotls eat eggs right after they were laid, some do it when the larvae inside start to move, some when they have hatched and some of mine don't eat them at all or have to get used to it.
For me it is still the best and most "natural" way to leave the eggs in the parent's tank, sooner or later they have always "vanished" in the last years.
For me it is still the best and most "natural" way to leave the eggs in the parent's tank, sooner or later they have always "vanished" in the last years.
I remove eggs from the tank (squeezing them off plants, filter and decorative log) and then put them down the garbage disposal - seems fastest to me. Funny enough, my last effort failed and an egg must have remained to hatch.... spotted a teeny little larva swimming in the adult tank yesterday, so removed it and now we're into 'save the little battler' mode.
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I have an escapee larvae left over from my first batch , of which some have reached 5 inches( eggs layed start of August). This is residing in an outside tank, full of daphnia, blood worm etc..and this one barely touches a cm !!. I am tempted to bring it inside as the water has frozen a few times, but feel the shock may kill it..so now I have a mission to secure the tank out side from heavy icing. The things we do for these little guys!!