Mass dead larvae Help

[radtad]

Just got home form work and noticed that in several of my containers there were several dead young axies. Age ranged from few weeks old to some about 1 inch long with front legs. Any ideas on what might have happend. Things have been going so well any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated i do not want to lose any others. They were all separated by size and all had air stones in the containers. Could they have gotten to warm? we had a fire last night in the fire place in that same room. They were all fine this morning when I checked on them.
Thanks
Ray

 

[Saspotato]

Hi, sorry to hear about your axies

I am not that familiar with the problems that occur in really young axolotls but it could very well be the temperature or poor water quality conditions. Do you know what they were?

 

[radtad]

the water temp i am not sure of last night did not think of that until tonight. water quality is fine I have been doing the regular water changes The wate now is reading between 67 and 68 degrees

 

[John]

Depends on the temperature it reached and how fast the change occurred. The other thing is that sometimes mass die-offs can occur without warning.

 

[Jennewt]

This page may help you narrow down the possibilities:
http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/why_larvae_die.shtml

 

[radtad]

It is a sad day at the Martin house and we do not like the death part we have lost 21 today up to this point we had lost only 4.

 

[Bellabelloo]

This must be so frustrating for you. What are you feeding the larvae at the moment..I was wondering if the food sauce may be the problem. I remeber a while back someone here lost all but a few of his larave and I am sure it was down to a bad batch of shop baught daphnia.

 

[radtad]

these fellows were are eating rinsed frozen blood worms currently. I think that I had a water temp spike. Us rookies tough lesson learned. Thank you all for you support and knowledge. My kids and have completely enjoyed our experience on this site and all the help you all give!!

 

[Daniel]

I heard of some cases where larvae died because of bad bloodworms - they got intoxicated and most of them died within two days.
Another thing that came to my mind (apart from the temperature spike what might be a problem indeed): When did you change the water the last time? Maybe something was wrong with the water, f.i. the waterworks added some chlorine without a warning (if you use tap water).