T. marmoratus larvae

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Well, after my post in the help section I have encountered no further deaths. My babies are thriving and I'm finding them to be vert different from the C.cyanurus larvae I raised last year. They are much more avid hunters than the cynops were, maybe since they seem to have such a great talent for swimming. I've seen some chase down daphnia through open water that were seemingly too large for them, only to find that enough nibbles and they were successful. My cynops would hop around the bottom looking and sniffing for food only to be foiled when something swam upwards.

I started these larvae on microworms since I had good luck with them in my last larvae, and I am now giving them bbs, daphnia, and I am introducing blackworms to see how that pans out at this stage. I hate to say, but I'm sort of glad there's a 50% mortality rate in the eggs since my adult female has not quit after at least 300 or so, whew! Anyways, here's some shots of em'

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here's mom showing off what she does best so far
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and of course dad, who's trying to hide from responsibility
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Congrats on discovering the problem and getting everyone going off to a good start! Keep us updated on their progress.
 
Well, I got my 1st morphs on Sunday. I noticed that there was some green on the heads of two of my larvae and they had somewhat short gills. I placed them in a tipped tupperware container to give them some land with their water. Not even a half an hour later I took these photos. They seem kinda small, I hope that I can get them to eat fruit flies and/or blackworms.

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number 2
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Hooray! I got a DSLR last week this was one of my first pics on it. This 3rd juvie hadn't even lost all of it's gills and decided to climb out anyways(gill nubs still visible).
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Congratulations on the camera and the morphs! They do sometimes start to climb sooner than it seems possible.
 
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