My babies are growing slowly...what am I doing wrong?

DeCypher · Jun 9, 2012

I have 14 Axolotl babies that hatched sometime around late February. They are only just over an inch long, very small. Still on brine shrimp. How is this possible? I hear other people talking of their babies being 2 inches long and just getting their back legs. Mine received their back legs a week or so ago. How can this slow growth be possible? Here are the conditions:
Temps: 65-ish F
Housing: Separated into 14 quart glass jars with 2 in. water and plants. Light overhead jars.
Water: Very clean, changed every day.
Feeding: Brine shrimp every morning.
Any help would be much appreciated by me and my babies!

Dr0gr1n · Jun 10, 2012

That does sound a bit strange. Maybe try feeding twice a day and leave the food in longer.

I have one out of the 30 I hatched that 4 months now is just maybe 3 inches while the others are at least 6 inches or bigger.

Good luck.

Mycenaean · Jun 10, 2012

Psychopathic963 said:
I have 14 Axolotl babies that hatched sometime around late February. They are only just over an inch long, very small. Still on brine shrimp. How is this possible? I hear other people talking of their babies being 2 inches long and just getting their back legs. Mine received their back legs a week or so ago. How can this slow growth be possible? Here are the conditions:
Temps: 65-ish F
Housing: Separated into 14 quart glass jars with 2 in. water and plants. Light overhead jars.
Water: Very clean, changed every day.
Feeding: Brine shrimp every morning.
Any help would be much appreciated by me and my babies!

When you say "Light overhead jars," do you mean that you have lighting on the axolotls?

Bellabelloo · Jun 11, 2012

I would move onto slightly bigger live food now such as daphnia, small blood worm , chopped balckworm etc. This should help

Morrison · Jun 11, 2012

I've had the same problem. I had 5 month old axies in a tub and they were just an inch. I fed them more often and bigger and they 'finally' started to grow.

satyrlike · Jun 12, 2012

At 1" I moved mine to the smaller Hikari bloodworms and into "plastic shoeboxes" that I was getting from Walmart for $5 stack of 10. The more advanced food and the larger living space did the trick and they started growing like weeds.

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