My first Axie eggs, whoo hoo!

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So I woke up this morning to find out my wild type Axie is apparently a female. She was the only one in her tank the last 48 hr and this morning pretty early like around 5 a.m. I was able to get a view of her laying some eggs. By noon I thought she had finished and moved her to a new tank but she had dropped quite a few in there as well.


The female is a wild type and the male is a melanoid both of which I adopted from a member here on this forum a few months back. Can I assume that some of the eggs are fertile since some are two tone white and black? I ask this question cause I have quite a few white, black, and two tone and one resource online had said that the two tone will be leucistic. I would only assume since this is my first time that any non fertile eggs would be of undetermined color not?[FONT=&quot][/FONT]
 
Hi and congratulations on your eggs, I cant answer about the likely colouring of the babies with having two tone eggs, but mine where also two tone (these are my first aswell) I have a melonoid female and Leucistic male so will have to wait and see, but other members have said that its difficulty to know the colours untill they are hatched and grown a little.
 
Thank you. My only real concern is fungus. Other caudates I have got to breed have always been invaded by fungus one way or another no matter how sterile the environment was.

The problem I have here is that this was definitely not expected as I have not determined sex nor have thought they were mature enough to do so. My son had a sleep over for his first time and him and one of the other kids got into the shrimp pellets and dumped way to many in. I have been doing water changes to vac out the mess but he really dumped a lot in so theirs still lots of left over detritus from broken down food. I was about to break down the tank today so I was really surprised when I saw the eggs.

Any advice on the gunk left over from the food? I am thinking I could use some air line to siphon more food out with less water and less disturbance to the eggs cause some of them have already got some stuck to the jelly they are protected in which worries me do to my past experience with fungus.
 
You could remove the eggs and do a clean out then put them back, I do a water change everyother day with my eggs and removed them from the tank rather than move the Axies
 
The only problem with that is that theirs to many of them. They have been laid everywhere. On live plants of different types, fake ones, air line for the filter, on some wood, and even on the sponge for the filter itself. She let go of a lot of eggs and they almost all kind of apear to have adhered together by the jelly coating on them unless it just appears that way.
 
I'd remove as many as you can and then clean the tank. Its not going to do the eggs any good to live in a dirty environment. Then fill it back up and chances are they'll be OK even out of the water for a little while in their jelly coating, just be as quick as possible. You'll want to remove them regardless to make it easier to raise them in smaller containers.
 
That does sound like a good plan so long as I can deal with it in ample amount of time. I wouldnt keep them in a smaller container though until they hatch.
 
Does anyone have any advice on shipping eggs? It would be greatly appreciated. I would like to give the person who gave the parents to me some of the eggs.
 
I ship USPS priority mail. I put eggs in an 8 oz water bottle with the lid sealed best as possible. I then wrap it with a good thick layer of bubble wrap and tape.
 
I've used both, each were equally effective :) Most P.O.s don't carry the size box I use, but if you have the right size, go for it! I'm currently being shipped a bunch I ordered for free on the USPS website, but, ironically, it's taking about a week and a half to get them after I ordered them. I wouldn't recommend waiting that long to send them :) So yeah, I mostly use large envelopes and this seems to work really well.
 
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