I've got eggs too!

cool, thanks for that link.

it says 1gram per litre. but there is like 230,000 eggs in one gram. . . . .. .. . .. .
 
Okay, i have got eggs too, im seeing all this stuff about them having to eat newly hatched brine shrimp, can they eat adult brine shrimp, or are those too big?
Do you think they would eat some sinking salmon pellets? If i crushed them up and made it easier for them to fit it in their mouth?
What else is easy for feeding newly hatched ones? something that doesnt take too much time or money to keep running, cuz im a little low on cash!
 
apparently they dont eat non moving food.

you can prob get brine shrimp eggs cheap i got 30g of eggs for £4 inc postage and you get 250,000 eggs per gram.
 
Somewhere i read says that they might eat crushed salmon pellets...
Its kinda hard for me to get ahold of brine shrimp eggs. Im in hawaii, and to get an import permit would take too long, so i have to search around here.
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this is going to take a while...
(stuff like this is hard to come by, the easy way is to import, but its not easy in hawaii)
 
Yes the strainer would replace the brine shrimp net. I think their small sized one would work fine.
 
Heather - I do not think you would get them to survive on crushed up pellets.

If you do not think you will be able to provide the things they need you can always dispose of these eggs and be more prepared next time (and trust me next time sometimes comes too soon!).

It will be heart breaking to watch them all slowly die if you let them hatch and then not be able to feed them.
 
I am pretty sure i can get ahold of baby brine shrimp, i was just wondering if they would eat pellets because i have tons of it in my freezer! do you think they would eat adult/juvinile brine shrimp, I ask because i have a good supply of that here.
I got my shrimp to breed last time so even if they wont eat adult brine shrimp im sure i could supply them with babies.
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Does anyone think it would be possible to ship some eggs to the mainland US. it is going to be hard for me to throw out so many, i can only keep around 75 and i would have to throw out more than 50 of them,
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kinda hard to do that. IF anyone has an idea regarding the shipping thing or if anybody want some eggs:
PLEASE IM MORE THAN HAPPY TO GIVE THEM AWAY!!
 
when you say small one do you mean the small sized one or the small meshed one. would the 120 in the small sized pot be neough
 
Jenny> the mother of the eggs is a Leucistic: D/d i think, since there arent any light colored eggs(correct me if im wrong)
and the father is a wild-type D/D
 
I think the mini strainer 120 micron for brine shrimp collection will be fine.
 
woohoo my eggs arrived today. so will get starting later and i ordered one of them strainer things.

the excitement!! :D
 
Heather leucistic are d/d. Wildtype are D/d or D/D. If you have no white coloured eggs then that would indicate the wildype father is D/D. Otherwise you would expect to see 50% white/50% dark.

On brine shrimp eggs...you only need to put a few drops of the eggs into a container of strong saline solution at a time...and if you bought artemia revolution you may have a bottle brine shrimp food (its a dark green liquid). Follow the instructions that came with them.
 
i got ahold of some brine shrimp eggs today, lots of em too, i have the stuff for a hatchery.
but my problem is that i have more eggs then i need, i decided im not going to export, just sell them locally. Where do i start as to throw away the eggs?
 
i think thats cruel,id rather throw away eggs than murder larvae
 
When I had to throw eggs away I put them in a zip lock bag and put them in the freezer for 2 days then threw them out. (freezing them solid made me feel like I was disposing of them in the nicest way possible)
 
You're murdering them anyways when you throw them away. At least your Axolotls get some nourishment out of them this way, and in a way the spirit of the devoured embryos will live on in your Adult, it may even gain their strength as the New Zealand Maori believe happens when you consume your enemy.

Freezing is not the way to go and if I can just quote the caudata page on amphibian euthanasia (http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/euthanasia.shtml)
"Unacceptable Methods of Euthanasia for Amphibians:
Freezing. Freezing is only acceptable if the amphibian is small (<40 grams), is already anesthetized, and the freezing is immediate (such as immersion into liquid nitrogen). However, refrigerator freezers are too slow and are considered unacceptable. Additionally many arctic, near arctic, and montane species can tolerate freezing for over 48 hours, making this especially ineffective for these species."
 
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