Question: How can I find which 2 of my axolotls just made these eggs?

[xolotlx]

I have a large tank with 5 axolotls in it and I had been trying to breed them for some time. I suppose my last attempt was successful! I had not seen any sign of breeding and I did not catch anyone actually laying the eggs because it happened so fast. I had predicted I had only one female in the tank but she seems the most unfazed after this egg laying so maybe there's another she! Is there any way I can find who the parents are (just out of curiosity)? Also another question: In the center of the egg jelly there's that yoke or whatever it is (The small dot in the middle) and in the majority of the eggs the yoke is how it should be at a day or 2 old. Like a clear, defined dot. But in some of the eggs there is this enlarged milky substance without a defined shape that barely fits in the egg jelly. So I'm just wondering what that is. I can still see the central dot in the middle of that cloudy substance.

 

[Quentari]

Pictures would help with the eggs. You probably won't be able to tell who the parents are until the eggs have hatched, and maybe not even then. If you had like a male albino and a female albino and a female wildtype, and most of the babies were albino, you could assume that the albino was the mother. Not sure how you'd tell otherwise, sorry lol

 

[melfly]

If the axolotl who laid is albino, the eggs will be white.
If not the eggs will be dark.

Not sure how helpful that is....depends what colours you have.

The milky ones sound like duds.

Photos might help

Mel

 

[xolotlx]

Here's some pictures of some of the eggs. They might not be great pictures. If it helps, the axolotls in the tank were: One white albino, one leucistic and 2 variants of wild type.

 

[melfly]

They have some pigment so not the albino.

Could be any of the others.

The ones that are going a kidney shape are all fine.
The rest are duds.

Mel