My babies!

[yellowpebble]

my babies are about to hatch in the next few days, they have developed gills and eyes and are wriggling inside their eggs!

i know i need to feed them twice a day... but how much? i will probably have 2-3 in small containers. Do i just fill the container with brine shrimp twice a day? how much brine shrimp? I know they die in fresh water and i will be doing water changes every day, but i need to avoid overfeeding for this reason.

also i didn't refrigerate my brineshrimp eggs, will they still be ok? They have not been in the sun.

also any guesses on colour? the mother is black melanoid and the father is copper... like rusty yellow with dark eyes, this is a good example:


http://www.caudata.org/photoplog/yummy-newt_salamander_photo-657.html
mine looks exactly the same.


I am confused on the genetics... is the copper an albino/leucistic gene? or is it just a light wild type? hopefully there will be a cool mix. melanoid x misc.

 

[bichogrilo]

With my eggs i sucessfully ended up feeding them microworms when they where tiny, and then when they were a bit bigger daphnia and then mosquito larvae.Good luck it is the coolest thing watching them hatch over a few days.

 

[Loobylou]

I fed mine around half a pipette of brine shrimp twice a day (each). If you are worried about water quality, feed them, leave them for an hour or two then do the water changes. Saying that, I never had a problem with water quality and I used to change the water twice a day before they were fed.

 

[yellowpebble]

wow they eat heaps! thanks

there seems to be a good mix of light and dark babies, but it is too early to tell exact colours. They look albino, not leucistic.