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hi all, well I'm a grandma 73 times over, the kids and I spent all day friday watching them hatch! It totally stuffed up my lessons! lol! I can't find any live daphinia in melbourne - i think ive rung every aquarium and petshop in melbourne! lucky the schools paying for the phone bill! I was also lucky enough to get a microscope in the classroom which really helped in getting the little guys who couldn't get out of their eggs, it was cool putting them under a microscope and peirceing the eggs with a pin. They did really well after i broke them out too! One last question. What do brine shrimp feed on? Is it the baking soda? i have some on the go haching now(I think).
Cheers!
Grandma Donna!
 
Congrats on the babies
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I wouldn't worry about feeding the brine shrimp try to feed them all to the axolotls within 2 or 3 days of them hatching.

I always kept 2 or 3 batches of brine shrimp going at the same time so I would always have some ready for feeding to the axolotls.

Baking soda will change the ph of the water, dont use that.

If you want to try feeding the brine shrimp here is a page with the how tos:

http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/shrimp.htm
 
Hi guys Donna here again with another question! I've seen from prievious posts that babies can 'not eat' for up to a week! its been five days scince theyve hatched and they don't seem to be eating my nice fresh brine shrimp. I think I'm lucky so far the count is still 70 babies. They so should be eating though, shouldn't they? I have 19 kids worried sick at the moment!
Thanking all in advance.
Donna.
 
Mine were always really quick to eat whatever I gave them. Five days sounds like a long time for babies to go without food. Are you feeding newly hatched brine shrimp because anything larger and they're not going to be able to fit in their mouths. Maybe try looking for microworms - try specialist aquarium shops for this.
 
Donna - Newly hatched brine shrimp are usually orange in color, you should be able to see orange bellies in your baby axolotls.

I too think 5 days is too long for them to go without food. Mine started eating the first day they hatched.
 
I'm hatching brine shrimp - rinsing them off really well and putting them in the tank. This last lot I left in overnight just to give them time to eat them. I 've been putting food in there for a few days now. Only one has died on me this could be a good sign that theyre eating and I'm not noticing it. Is it possible I'm just not seeing the orange bellies? do they kind of swim up to the top of the water when they're feeding? I have a lot of (I think ) wildtype babies but I can't see the orage bellies in my golden ones or the few albino. I think I might chop finely some of the blackworms that I have. and try to find microworms today.
Donna.
 
Donna - Your axolotl larvae should be in a container of shallow water (with no substrate) so the food is more concentrated and easy for them to find.

From reading your post it sounds like they are in deep water? Are they?
 
They are in only an inch of water, it's a large tank but then I have 69 babies. To feed in the morning I put them all in a small continer (while they are in there I clean the big tank out and change the water) and put the rinsed shrimp in, at night I put the shrimp in the big tank over night as I change the water in the morning.
Is this OK???
 
Donna - Sorry I misunderstood your post.

I would keep feeding the brine shrimp.

http://www.axolotl.org/rearing.htm says: microworms are not ideal and won't be well received until the axolotl larvae develop their front legs.


I would think that after 5 days if they are not eating you would have more "bodies".

If you sit and watch them through the glass when you put in a fresh bunch of brine shrimp you will see the axolotl larvae make a small lunge forward. That is them sucking in a brine shrimp. They normally sit and wait until a shrimp swims by their face rather than hunt down the shrimp.
 
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