Enlongated Eggs

blueberlin

2010 Research Grant Donor
Joined
Apr 23, 2008
Messages
1,939
Reaction score
51
Points
0
Age
53
Location
Illinois
Country
United States
Display Name
Eva
With permission from my friend Tina (callina) I have some interesting photos to post. One of her axolotls has laid a cluth of eggs in which all of the eggs are elongated. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? The embryos are still very young; we are all waiting to see how the develop. I will be glad to update as Tina makes new photos.

-Eva
 

Attachments

  • long eggs 1.jpg
    long eggs 1.jpg
    38.1 KB · Views: 642
  • long eggs 2.jpg
    long eggs 2.jpg
    38.8 KB · Views: 276
Hi !

The jelly coat is very, very elongated, but the egg per se looks normal.
Is it her first spawning ?

I've never seen such a phenomenon.
I once had a female laying, for her first spawning, perfectly round eggs, but with a too hard jelly, so that the embryos couldn't elongate normally and all hatched distorted.
The year after, the second spawning was normal.
 
The eggs, i.e. the inner sac, are also elongated. The embryos are apparently normal and developing as usual (pics below). Note that they are all growing along the length of the egg "tube", none crosswise. This is not the mother's first clutch; it is the first clutch that looks like this, though.

-Eva
 

Attachments

  • long eggs 3.jpg
    long eggs 3.jpg
    61.3 KB · Views: 269
  • long eggs 4.jpg
    long eggs 4.jpg
    41.8 KB · Views: 301
  • long eggs 5.jpg
    long eggs 5.jpg
    57.1 KB · Views: 267
Last edited:
Anyway, the embryos seem absolutely normal in your case.
Good news.

JM
 
Very interesting....
Seems the babies will be fine which is great!

Mel
 
So, Tina is being too lazy today to write in English, so I will update before she knocks me on the head.

One larva has tuned crossways in the egg and got his egg rounder. Two other larvae that are active twitchers have got their eggs rounded out a bit, too, but the rest are all still misshapen.

No new photos at this time.

Has nobody seen this before?

-Eva
 
I havn't seen the elongated egg sac before. I have noticed that young axolotls seem to throw some odd eggs that have low viability. If the larvae turn out good I wouldn't give the sac a second thought. If you have problems with the larvae I would take a second look at the health of the male and female.

Please keep us updated.
 
Sorry I don't have the answer for you, but thanks for asking the question; I may run into that issue.
\
thanks lisa
 
Hi,

thank you for your replies.

I think this will be the last pictures of the eggs; the larvae are going to hatch in a few days.
One egg didn´t develop and you can see it is as small as before. All eggs with larvae inside became rounder.
 

Attachments

  • k-100609 004.JPG
    k-100609 004.JPG
    60 KB · Views: 324
  • k-100609 006.JPG
    k-100609 006.JPG
    35.4 KB · Views: 511
  • k-100609 007.JPG
    k-100609 007.JPG
    21.3 KB · Views: 784
They are hatching - the first larva is born! It´s 11 cm in lenght.:blob:
 
Sweet! Post more pics when they all hatch :p
 
That's good to hear. In my ignorance, (I'm not an experienced breeder), I was beginning to wonder if they'd have trouble wriggling out without the tension of being curled up in a round casing.
 
omg - a bad typo! :eek:

Surely it´s not 11cm, but 11 mm! :D Otherwise it would be a monster larva. ;)

All larvae hatched yesterday and they are doing fine. They are between 11 and 12 mm in size. No one had any problems to leave the egg.

I will take some photos in the afternoon, when my camera has full power (accus/battery).

tina
 
so, here are the promised pics :D

The color is very unusual to me. It´s a cross between leucistic and golden albino and the pigmentation is wild. They are well developed and their behavior is quite normal, like all the other newly hatched larvae do.:D

Tomorrow they will get their first meal - brine shrimps - the hatchery is going on.

Tina
 

Attachments

  • k-100612 001.JPG
    k-100612 001.JPG
    40.1 KB · Views: 288
  • k-100612 002.JPG
    k-100612 002.JPG
    44 KB · Views: 298
  • k-100612 003.JPG
    k-100612 003.JPG
    44.9 KB · Views: 266
  • k-100612 004.JPG
    k-100612 004.JPG
    50.9 KB · Views: 244
  • k-100612 005.JPG
    k-100612 005.JPG
    50.5 KB · Views: 236
Thanks for the pics, Tina!!! You know there can never be too many!! Looking forward to seeing how these turn out, how exciting!

So, glad, everything turned out so well! :D
 
General chit-chat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.
  • Shane douglas:
    with axolotls would I basically have to keep buying and buying new axolotls to prevent inbred breeding which costs a lot of money??
    +1
    Unlike
  • Thorninmyside:
    Not necessarily but if you’re wanting to continue to grow your breeding capacity then yes. Breeding axolotls isn’t a cheap hobby nor is it a get rich quick scheme. It costs a lot of money and time and deditcation
    +1
    Unlike
  • stanleyc:
    @Thorninmyside, I Lauren chen
    +1
    Unlike
  • Clareclare:
    Would Chinese fire belly newts be more or less inclined towards an aquatic eft set up versus Japanese . I'm raising them and have abandoned the terrarium at about 5 months old and switched to the aquatic setups you describe. I'm wondering if I could do this as soon as they morph?
    +1
    Unlike
    Clareclare: Would Chinese fire belly newts be more or less inclined towards an aquatic eft set up versus... +1
    Back
    Top