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Hatchlets - are they too small...?

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Hey there,

I recently bought some eggs from one of the lovely members of this forum

They arrived with me on the 22nd or 23rd September. All seems to have gone well and 2 "hatched" yesterday, 2 more last night and hopefully one more when I return home from work tonight - so they will be due a feed when I get there.

However, looking at lot of diaries and videos of other baby axolotls just hatched mine and Chris's seem very very small..? Most of what I have seen shows them looking like axolotls mine still look... like a long thin blob.

Is this just me being over-protective and silly or is there a likely cause of why they are so small?

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Rach
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Hatchlings are usually ~1cm long. How big are yours?

Also keep in mind that newly hatched axolotls lay on the bottom, on their side. It takes a few days before they start sitting upright.
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Yeah they are around 1cm long, on the bottom, on their side.

I've just had a very reassuring message from said lovely member too.

I'm feeling a lot more at ease now.

Thank you so much!

I'm very new at this and so excited. But also very easily concerned as a part of it lol.
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Feed 'em well, and they'll practically grow before your eyes!
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Day 3 -

they're still very stick like. The 5th egg still hasn't hatched. Theyve been offered baby brine shrimp and i think they've eaten a couple possibly. Two look quite sad and two seem to have moved next to each other and are "spooning" for want of a better phrase.
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can you see gills if you look really close? Or an arrow shaped head? Mine haven't hatched yet, and they display both of these.
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No. This is what has been worrying me...

It could be that i don't know what to look for but idve thought that the head would be obvious.
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They gills should be pretty obvious... I know mine have pretty clear head sections, and fan-like gills and they just hatched today. Yours might be pre-mature, or maybe its just hard to see...
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