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sarah
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So, I was able to aquire 4 tiny babies. They were doing fine for the first two days.. Then I tried to feed them some baby brine shrimp I had just hatched... I fed them around 1am, and I woke up at 6am to check on them... One was dead. I immediately moved them to fresh, clean water (with a small amount of their old water so they wouldn't be shocked). In the hours that came, they slowly died off. I didn't have any problems before the feeding, so obviously something went wrong with that. I'm pretty sure I washed them thoroughly using a net covered in pantyhose to keep the tiny things from getting through the net, but perhaps I didn't wash them well enough? I tried my best to make sure I didn't suck up any eggs with a syringe when I was taking the brine shrimp out of the hatchery, I'm sure a couple probably got through, but I'm thinking that eating an unhatched egg wasn't the cause. I'm wondering if either I didn't wash them well enough, or if the brine shrimp might have fouled the water in those 5 hours I wasn't watching them? Any ideas? It was pretty disappointing.
I would like to try raising axolotls again when I can get a hold of more eggs/babies. But I'd like to try with daphnia, like I wanted to originally. I just wasn't able to find a live source of daphnia to culture that wasn't contaminated with other things. I'm thinking after this incident, I would like to lay off the brine shrimp entirely. I don't know what went wrong, but I don't want to chance the same mistake again. Daphnia seems like the safest live tiny food I could feed them. I can find plenty of frozen or freeze dried daphnia, but not the live stuff...
I've collected as much information as I can on raising axie babies, and I thought it would be something I could handle, educational, and fun. So don't send me links on care of babies, I've more than likely read it already. I would appreciate knowing what could have gone wrong with the feeding, why they would continue to die after changing their water, and maybe if someone could send me a link to a good source of daphnia I could order online?
I appreciate any help, input, or feedback you can give me, thank you!!
I would like to try raising axolotls again when I can get a hold of more eggs/babies. But I'd like to try with daphnia, like I wanted to originally. I just wasn't able to find a live source of daphnia to culture that wasn't contaminated with other things. I'm thinking after this incident, I would like to lay off the brine shrimp entirely. I don't know what went wrong, but I don't want to chance the same mistake again. Daphnia seems like the safest live tiny food I could feed them. I can find plenty of frozen or freeze dried daphnia, but not the live stuff...
I've collected as much information as I can on raising axie babies, and I thought it would be something I could handle, educational, and fun. So don't send me links on care of babies, I've more than likely read it already. I would appreciate knowing what could have gone wrong with the feeding, why they would continue to die after changing their water, and maybe if someone could send me a link to a good source of daphnia I could order online?
I appreciate any help, input, or feedback you can give me, thank you!!