Raising Only One Egg

[carsona246]

Hey everyone, I've been searching for a type of salamander/newt to get in my apartment, and I was originally going to get a firebelly newt, but I think I might want to get an axolotl instead. I've been searching the forum for a few days and can't seem to find how likely it is that one egg will hatch. What I would like to do is find someone who has eggs, and have them only ship one egg to me, and hatch that one, but I dont want to go to all the trouble of raising daphnia if this is likely to fail. Should I start raising daphnia now to prepare for a baby axolotl, or should I just buy a juvenile who will take prepared foods?

 

[musilvr4eva]

I don't see why just one egg wouldn't hatch. I've only rarely lost eggs, they always seem to hatch for me. I've never done daphnia, I've heard about using them, but have no experience with them myself. I've always ever used live tubifex worms for feeding my little ones. I just chop it up real fine and they go to town!

~Emily~

 

[Shizeric]

If this is your first time with amphibians..especially with raising them, I would just buy a juvenile. You can buy them very small so you still get to watch them develop, and they are a heck of a lot easier.

 

[carsona246]

I'm a little worried about this, it is my first time with raising amphibians(other than frogs when I was a kid), but I have a good deal of experience with fish, so I was hoping it wouldn't be much different. I may just end up getting a juvenile, but I think it would be pretty neat to raise a pet from an egg. I've tried my hand at raising micro worms before for a dwarf puffer, which is probably a little different from tubifex, but I don't think it would be impossible for me to get a nice culture of some form of food for larvae.

 

[dragonlady]

Personally, I would also recommend a juvenile for a beginner as Eric has stated.

I have raised a few axolotls from 1" long juveniles and found that to be quite rewarding in itself. This is just my opinion, but living in an apartment where you are kind of limited on space, I would think that a juvenile would be easier to contend with.

 

[harry7890]

i can buy dapnia in bags from my pet shop , and they also do shell-less daphnia eggs that you leave in a warm place overnight and they hatch and they seem to be doing well on that. i always assumed you had to feed them live as of the feeding thingy they have where they can only see food side on . if you can get hold of bagged live daphnia that should sufice. atleats that is what i am using

 

[carsona246]

Well I've been quite busy reading up on how to properly care for axolotl eggs, and looking to see if I couldn't find anyone interested in an axolotl. Luckily I've found quite a few people who I think will take good care of an axolotl, and who are looking for one in my area, so I think I'll try my hand at raising them from an egg, but I'll be getting half a dozen or so to hopefully at least a few will be fine if not all. Just waiting to find someone selling leucestic eggs now