Eggs, mother too young/small?

if you have a turkey baster, when the shrimp have settled on the bottom use the baster to collect them instead.
 
Everything seems to have stabilized. The last few days there were no casualties and they are growing fast.

There is one thing that caught my attention the last 2 days:
The axies seem to be hanging out at the surface of the water a lot. I change the water dayly, so there shouldn't be any oxigen dificiencies or something like that. Some of the axies do it, others don't. Are they doing this b/c the lungs are starting to develop? There are small bubbles where they 'float'..
Some of them also have started develloping front legs. Is this related?
 
im not quite sure why they are doing that but it may be an idea to put some plant life in there with them.
i always have some in with mine this gives them something to rest on aswell as adding a bit of oxygen to the water.
depending on the size of your container and the number and size of axies in it they can use up quite a lot.
 
That's normal, you'll always find a few floating, I generally separated them, and put them in lowered water so they didn't float too much, it sometimes meant minimal water, but it got changed twice daily anyay.

Entirely normal that some are developing front legs before others. When they get noticeably larger than the others separate them, that way you ensure the smaller ones get the food they need.

How are you going with the brineshrimp separation? I turned of the airpump, let as many eggs settle or rise, as the case may be, then turned a desk lamp on and aimed it towards the bottle/tank and it was pretty easy to suck up the brineshrimp that gathered towards the light source without collecting any eggs. I used Cloth's method, of hanky over a jar, squirted the brineshrimp into it (salt water went in jar), then rinsed with dechlorinated water.
 
Hello Damien.

When you say '' There are small bubbles where they 'float'.. is the bubble inside the axolotl ? I have one that is currently 'hanging ' around the surface ( upside down at times) with an air bubble in its tummy.
Its been like this over 12 hours now. This morning I am gently raising the heat slightly to try and help with the 'trapped wind' ( used to do it with the babies ...human... to help with the dreaded colic)...I however suspect it'll not work and in this ones case nature will have to take its course.
 
I'll try your way of separation. I've tried to lure them to a light source, but how long do you have to wait? I put a towel over one of the hatcheries and put a light on the part that wasn't covered.. but 30mins later they were still dispersed.
Maybe it's b/c the towel lets through too much light?
 
this is regarding my axolotl larvae with the bubble / trapped wind....the warmth worked and a small bubble was expelled.
 
I never bothered covering the brineshrimp hatchery just put the lamp close to the hatchery. It only takes a few minutes for them to swim towards the light (you can also use a torch) and gather in one spot = they're not hard to see what they start gathering.
 
Axolotl.org says that at the stage my axies are now, they can be kept in bigger tanks.
Can I put my younsters in my aquarium that I bought for them? (need to check water quality first) or should I wait a bit.

The site also mentions that at the size they are now they can eat adult daphnia.. can I try this?

If possible, I'd like to do both things at once. I have an aquarium that has water in it since the eggs were separated and has a sandy bottom with a couple of plants. Is this doable for axies this size? In that aquarium I can put a whole bag of daphnia if possible. The size is 40*25*25.
The things they're in now are 10*10*3 or something.. quite small.
Dead daphnia will pollute the water in no time at all...and doing water changes is hard with a lot of daphnia in the water.
Should I put daphnia in the water now so the tank can cycle first?

What is the best thing to do?
They are about 2-2.5cm now I think. They won't stay still enough too measure correctly :p
 
i know some people dont agree with me [LOL]
but my larvae where put into a sand covered tank when they 4 days old, i stocked the tank with daphnia and just popped them in. they are now 13 days old and out of 25 babies i have only had two fatalities.
my tank is filtered and has plants, a couple small pieces of drift wood and is kept at a temp of 19 degrees. and of course constantly stocked with daphnia. the daphnia is much easier to see therefore easier to remove when dead.
 
I measured them better today and I can quite safely say that they are around 3cm long. I don't know how long it takes until they can't be sucked up anymore by my surrogate turkey baster...
There are a bunch of daphnia in the bigger tank, but b/c of the holidays all the daphnia where I live are far from fresh.. a lot of dead ones in the bags etc.
 
They are now about 5cm long and te back legs are starting to devolop. The tank I reserved for them isn't ready yet, so they're still in quite small enclosures..

I can't seem to control the nitrite+nitrate in the tank, so I'm still busy changing water every couple of days.
I need a filter for the tank, but my airpump is making overhours on the artemia hatcheries. And the small electric pumps here suck.

And Duo and Wooper are at it again.. the second round has started. New eggs are present.

I do nothing special with the lighting or food.. can they get 'in the mood' for no reason?
 
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