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i read somewhere the other day that if some of your axolotl eggs hatch and some of the other ones dont your supposed to put some sharp scissors into the unhatched ones and open the scissors so that the egg opens? dont know if i should do this or not as two axies hatched but the others are still in their eggs :(

oh and another true or false question..
i read somewhere else that you dont have to leave the axolotls water to stand overnight (to get rid of chlorine) because the chlorine forms bubbles and the axolotls cant diffuse bubbles into their gills to breathe. they get O2 from the water.

e.g. they 'breathe' from the water not gas (chlorine gas)

just wondering :D
 
DO NOT open your eggs. They'll hatch when they're ready.

You need to use a dechlorinator to remove chlorine/chloramines from your water. Chlorine is a skin irritant.
 
How long has it been since the larvae started hatching? Mine took a good 4 days to all hatch once the first few started hatching.

Your second question is a little confusing, but I'll do my best to answer... O2 (oxygen) is a gas, as well as chlorine. I don't really know the whole chemistry as it pertains to the salamander except that it is detrimental to them biologically. I use a liquid dechlorinater instead of letting my water sit like I used to. My city water is treated with chloramine instead of chlorine and it doesn't diffuse like chlorine does. Even cool water just left overnight will still have a lot of chlorine in it. It can take more than a week to diffuse. You might want to switch to spring water or a liquid dechlorinater to be on the safe side. Either way, chlorine and chloramine are both dangerous to axolotls, especially larvae.
 
thanks guys! i did think it would be pretty mean opening eggs and id worry that they werent properly developed or something :(

well one hatched the other day in the morning and another was half way out the egg but was hatched by the night and the other 6 are just chilling in their eggs :lol:

im just too impatient i want to see them growing and swimming together :D

yeah i recently learnt about them in college and thought it would be a bad idea to put them in tap water straight away but i seen this on a website that supplies axolotls so i thought id ask on here as everybody knows a fair bit :)

p.s. empty eggs need taking out the water right?
 
It took almost a week for all of my eggs to hatch, but they all did hatch. Every day for a week I was scooping larvae out of the tank, but it was exciting to see a new bunch every morning when I woke up. The last ones seemed to be just as big in the eggs as the ones that had hatched. So they are all the same size now despite hatching on different days up to a week apart. I am loving it!! Over 200 little swimmers, only 2 fatalities.
 
Guys one egg that was an odd shap has died as far as i know :( none have hatched for two or three days...
Im getting worried because they dont wiggle in their eggs when i change the water now.. The two that did hatch are looking good but dont think theyre eating

Is it possible to have albino babies from non albino parents
 
At this point, I'd probably be inclined to open the eggs that look fully developed. I opened several of mine that were late hatchers and they've been fine. Actually, most escaped just being sucked up into a turkey baster, but I used small tweezers and a pipette to open them.

And yes, its possible to have albino babies from non-albino parents. Albino is recessive, so if each parent carried one copy of the albino gene, then you'd get ~25% albino babies.
 
But what if they arent developed enough and i go opening them :( aww i think i got an albino and a wild type or dark one im panicing because my brine shrimp eggs havent hatched so i dont know what to do theres a few baby daphnia with the hatched ones, havent seen them being eaten tho.. Ahh
 
Just leave them in the eggs. They'll hatch, or they won't. If you go 'helping' individuals that are too weak to hatch themselves, you'll contribute those weaker genes to future generations of axolotls, and further muddy up the gene pool.
 
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But what if they arent developed enough and i go opening them :( aww i think i got an albino and a wild type or dark one im panicing because my brine shrimp eggs havent hatched so i dont know what to do theres a few baby daphnia with the hatched ones, havent seen them being eaten tho.. Ahh
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If they're the same size and have full gills like the ones that hatched, then they'll be fine. I even had one that hatched during shipping 5ish days early and he was fine. You don't have to help them out if you want to wait and see, but its not going to hurt them if you are careful. My concern would be the fouling of the water by those that didn't make it but are attached to those trying to escape. If the eggs are in a clump, sometimes those in the middle aren't able to free themselves without a little bit of help. But if you are don't feel comfortable helping them along, then just wait it out and hopefully they'll make it out eventually.
 
Thanks for the advice guys, theyre all seperate but by the looks of things some eggs are maybe gunna get cloudy and thats what the others did and they died. Ive been taking note of their positions and one is deffinately changing position and is therfore alive, dont know about the others :/
 
I would open them(at least the moving one) and keep them separate then from the others and see what happens. If they live, great. If not, you did everything you could.
 
I again have to express how much of a bad idea I think this is. Helping weak individuals enter the breeding pool is what has ruined the genetics of so many hobby species already. Advocating someone contributing to this growing issue is not good advice.
 
We'll just have to agree to disagree. No one said these have to add to the breeding pool, but I don't necessarily think just because it hasn't been able to hatch, doesn't mean its a weaker individual(the weaker individuals will probably die or show some tendency of being weaker/smaller). All the care guides I've read and people I've talked to about egg rearing have recommended helping out the last few if several days have past. Some may have a thicker jelly coating to get through or be in a clump or blocked by plants on most sides. I had one set of eggs I was given that were coated in a thick layer of sand, which is much harder to get out of and not typical
 
This seems to be a conflicting matter sorry guys :D well to meet everyone half way, i have no intentions of breeding and i dont even know if these will survive yet.. There was one egg that wasnt rotating and wasnt wiggling so i helped just that one (gunna leave the other three eggs) to see if it would survive and it wiggled a few times yayy! The egg that was cloudy was infact dead for some reason and One is still developing as i got it in the second batch.

Hope all goes well :)
 
cant get pictures to work on here... :(
 
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