My babies

[madeve]

My 2 babies

well after a few losses I am left with only these two babies. Both of the survivors are the ones without pigments from the previous pictures.
I have luckily found a small aquarium shop that can order blackworms for me. I think I'll stay away from frozen bloodworms for a while and stick to bbs until I get the blackworms. Hopefully my last two babies will enjoy that.

 

[Kaysie]

I find it so odd that I shipped out so many leucistic eggs. Another gent received all leucistics as well. How did I get stuck with all the wildtype?

They're lookin' good, Eve.

 

[radtad]

I would check here to see if anyone wants any before I would go to a petshop. My experience is that a pet shop keeps their shop way to warm for the Axies to do very well in that enviroment. Explain to hubby they are easier and take up less space then say a litter of puppies. I have the opposite challenge my wife and kids want to keep them all. We are currently raising close to 70 of the little guys and with a family of seven they keep telling me it is only ten a piece and they can all have several tanks in each of their rooms to free up the family room that now looks like plastic shoe box factory LOL . If your hubby decides that he needs one I to have several that are just a little bigger then the ones you have.

 

[Kaysie]

Some pet shops aren't bad. I just sold a handful to my local shop, who is absolutely AWESOME! I'm down to 29 (including the 3 I'm raising for someone else, and the 1 I'm keeping, and the midget, which I haven't decided what to do yet).

 

[madeve]

Here are my two survivors getting bigger, they are now both sporting some back legs but I can't get a nice shot of them because my camera is not all that great. They are enjoying their blackworms a lot, I find it cute when they "hunt" the worms, I'll try to get a shot of them feeding but they are just faster than me on that one, lol, the worms dissapear faster than I can take the shot.

 

[madeve]

oops I seem to have forgotten to upload the pictures before submitting, lol.

 

[Neotenic_Jaymes]

yea outa the 5, 2 were lecustic and the rest where wildtypes! 2 of them naturally didnt make it and the rest are doing fine. all limbs are cearly visible and since i have such a low number of them, I can concetrate on them alot more. So they are very big with high crests and long healthy gills. I keep em fed all the time now they are feeding soft salmon pellets twice a day. I can feed on pellets exclusively now. I keep em in a 10 gallon right now with alot of space and live plants. I've allways kept them in alot of space so the percentage of them biting each other is alot lower and in addition to that they are fed frequently. thanks kaysie!! for the axolotls ....wish you had more for me...

 

[madeve]

I took a few shots with a tape measure and I am so shocked to see that one of my axie is quite a bit bigger than the other. They eat the same amount of blackworms everyday (even though the bigger one seems to eat faster) and are both kept in the coolest possible room.
My only concern is that they seem small for axies hatched in mid december .... well here they are

 

[tyl3r]

If think you've just redefined small! Cute though.

 

[madeve]

should I be concerned about their size or are they just small ?

 

[tyl3r]

It's over 20 years since I was last looking after baby axies (so the brain may be playing tricks) but ignoring the back leg buds and going on length alone, they only look 2 or 3 weeks old to me, not 11+ weeks. Someone with more recent experience must surely be able to advise...

 

[madeve]

Could they be midgets?

 

[Kaysie]

I have one that's still pretty pint-sized. He's barely pushing an inch. They all hatched from the same clutch. Maybe try keeping them a little warmer?

 

[madeve]

They are currently residing in my bathroom as I thought the kitchen was too warm (I cook a lot), too bright (neons above every counter) and too noisy (my toddler loves to help me "cook"). We keep the house at 76ºF but for some reason my bathroom wants to stay at 72ºF and I thought that was a little warm for them...
I still change their water everyday in the morning and I put some nice chopped blackworms in there which they seem to really like.
I really hope I'm not doing anything wrong ,they have some very nice frilly gills though, I thought that was a good thing ...

 

[ben_tajer]

If those markings on that ruler are just centimeters I've got some hatchlings that are an equivalent size.

 

[Kaysie]

The markings would be in inches. They were bigger than 1cm when I hatched them in December.

Eve, I have the same problem with one of mine. They all hatched from the same clutch, but he's definitely a midget. He's hardly half the size of the rest. As long as they're eating and developing appropriately (they seem to be healthy and fat), I wouldn't worry too much. They grow up too fast anyway.

 

[Neotenic_Jaymes]

My three that I recieved from Kaysie are doing fine. They have trippled thier size in just a matter of weeks! Out of the 3 theres 1 axolotl that loves to eat and is out growing the others. I keep them at a tempurature of about 60 degrees or 65 degrees. Feed the every day sometimes twice. Most of the time they have food in their stomachs if you feed them frequently they'll get big fast but dont over feed. All my axolotls are about 3 inches now the biggestone is about 3.5 inches but I've noticed that that axolotl allways eats more. I'll post pics soon. I felt like my axolotls had a slow start actually at 1st they wasnt doing so well. They was even alittle down in the gills, their gills were even stating to diminish. Then I placed live plants in the tank and kept feeding and made sure stress was going to be minimum to avoid injuries and death. After 2 out of the 5 died I placed them in a even bigger tank to aviod problems like I said before. Now I'm going to put them in a even "BIGGER" tank because they're getting bigger everytime I see them.

 

[madeve]

Getting bigger

A little update on my two babies. One is still quite a bit bigger but they are growing a bit more each day, the bigger one is really looking pink while the other looks a bit more grey. I still feed them blackworms, now that they both have back legs are they ready for pellets?
The first three pictures are the bigger axie, the three others of the small one (I think they need names at this point, I'm working on it).

 

[hanniebumblebee]

omg soooo cute did u like hatch them ureself???

 

[madeve]

omg soooo cute did u like hatch them ureself???

yes I kind of hatch them myself ,I got the eggs from Kaysie and have been raising them since. I had a few mishaps along the way but those two are doing just fine.