Illness/Sickness: I have eggs!!

[Kerry1968]

My gorgeous axie laid her first batch of eggs yesterday. It was amazing to watch her laying them, she went on laying all day!
I have removed the majority of the eggs (still attached to the plants) to a seperate tank, the rest (attached to large pieces of wood and their hidey homes!) I'm leaving for the fish/axolotls/apple snails to eat! If any larvae manage to hatch in the axie tank then I'll try to remove them before they become dinner!
I have read as much as I can about care of eggs and larvae and hopefully I'm prepared! I have daphnia ready and waiting for the newly hatched larvae, all I need is plenty of storage for when the larvae get bigger!
I'm so excited!
I have done searches on here for any previous threads on care of eggs/small larvae, but most searches ignore all the important words like 'eggs' 'axolotl' etc! Unless I'm doing something wrong? I just want to make sure I get as many happy healthy larvae out of the eggs I've salvaged as possible, so it would be good to read up on other people's experience.
Thank you, Kerry.

 

[digger]

CONGRATLATONS!
But a word from the wise, dont try to rase more than 10-20.
The actual daily care is no problem its the cost.
If your daphnia crashes and dies you will have to make sure you have alternatve supples ready.
20 larvae upto 1 month will cost around £20 a week if you have to purchase food, once they start to grow and advance on to blood worm ths can escalate to £30-£40 for live food.
Thats the down side im afraid but the rewards are just as great as you watch them develope from to day.
Anyway good luck.

 

[kira]

Oh thats great! Congrats!!

 

[inkozana]

I am raising 96 IT'S SO HARD AND TIRING AND I HATE BEING A MOMMY.
But they have their little cutsey moments <3

 

[Jennewt]

It disheartens me whenever I read someone wanting to save 'as many as possible'. I would suggest that saving a few eggs and pampering the larvae like crazy is a better goal. You'll see what we mean soon enough. I've seen so many first timers end up with all of them dead simply because they tried so hard to raise a large number.

There are some articles on CC that may be useful reading if you haven't seen them:
http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/raising.shtml
http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/why_larvae_die.shtml

 

[Kerry1968]

Thank you for the advice. I'm going to try to raise about 20 babies so that I don't run out of daphnia and run into trouble storing them all when they get bigger. I realise I was a bit ambitious with the amount of eggs I harvested! I just got caught up with the excitment of it all! Thanks again for your help, Kerry.

 

[oneatos]

I want some