Dobro eggs!

[Niels D]

I've got a couple of T.dobrogicus hatched in spring 2011 and I've found eggs today. Joy!

Couldn't take a very sharp picture, but here goes:

 

[EasternNewtLove]

Congrats I hope they flourish I hope to be getting some eggs from a member soon

 

[Jennewt]

Nice photos, and congratulations on the breeding!

 

[SpaceCadetHayde]

Congrats! My dobros have been laying for a good month and will not stop courting. :S I've given up on taking them out of the tank at this point or I'd have more rubbermaids than floor space. Have you seen any development yet?

 

[Niels D]

I've seen development and I keep finding more and more eggs. I think that 3 of my 5 females are laying them at this moment. We haven't decided what we'll do with the eggs or hatchlings. We've got 9 dobros allready. I guess we'll give them away.

 

[otolith]

Congratulations on the eggs! My group just started another round of egg laying again as well, best of luck with them!

 

[Niels D]

07-01-2012

14-01-2012

 

[Niels D]

18-01-2012

 

[Niels D]

22-01-2012

 

[otolith]

Nice! How many have hatched so far? Yours are way farther along than mine, the eggs that are showing the most development are still probably about a week away from hatching. Is 3 weeks a pretty normal time from laying to hatching?

 

[Niels D]

It's not unusable, but with colder temperatures it can take longer. I believe it can even take 5 weeks, but I don't have any experience with that.

 

[Niels D]

31-01-2012

 

[Traxolotl]

how are you keeping your dobro eggs?

 

[Niels D]

Sorry, didn't see your post. I keep the eggs in a lillte container with some plants and some snails. The larvae are removed as soon as they're hatched and placed into a..... little container with some plants and some snails

16-02-2012

 

[stanleyc]

Beautiful pictures, so you put the snails in there to produce infusoria as food for the larvae? Or another purpose?

 

[Niels D]

The snails eat detritus, dead food items and dead plants, which would normally rot away in the water. Of course they produce feces. Feces are easyer for the bacterial life to deal with, than undigested dead material though.
Never thought of the option of feeding infusoria to newly hatched larvae. I think the larger infusoria species are big enough to be eaten. Created cultures in the past using water and lettuce or rabbit pellets.

 

[otolith]

I bet these guys are getting big, any updated pictures?

 

[Niels D]

Sorry. Missed your reaction. The dobros are getting big indeed, but it's not possible for me to update the development of this little bugger and his brothers and sisters, because they've got a new owner. Luckily I received a second batch of eggs from my animals and they're looking like this at the moment: