My axolotls Guessing game

[nathan]

I have court some water fleas
or some thing and I will try
and prepare them for the rain
of babies I did use brine shrimp
last time but a bit to fiddly

 

[anne-marie]

Wild caught stuff is pretty dodgy - Diseases can be introduced. (Having said that though, I used to buy dapnia from Vebas Aquariums and I bet that was only wild caught, still it seemed clean and the babies loved 'em) Also, daphnia which are known as water fleas, although they are small I feel they are too big for newly hatched larvae. I reckon the brine shrimps are better for hatchlings. But it is a pain in the (ahem) hatching brine shrimps and messy too.

 

[joan]

There are a few different species of Daphnia. Daphnia pulex are much smaller than Daphnia magna, and Moina is smaller yet. I started mine on pulex and upgraded to magna, then to white and blackworms.

 

[anne-marie]

Joan, where did you get the starter culture from? Is there somewhere that sells it, or did you set it up yourself. If you set it up, I'd be interested in how you did it.

 

[halszka]

I love both your cappuccino coloured axies And Nathan's looks like she's grinning in her 'mugshot'.

 

[joan]

www.livefoodcultures.com But you guys are in the customs anomoly we call Australia, so I don't know if they'd be available. The thing with a daphnia farm, if you set it up early, and put a few adults in with your ready-to-hatch axolotl eggs, by the time the eggs hatch, there will be lots of little daphnia babies in the water. You can use Dapnhia magna, it wouldn't be a problem.