HummingBird

What evidence? Do you mean the percentages again? I've already covered those, they're not valid to compare by because the organisms don't have the same mass. I tried telling you that with the whole ocean/lake analogy before but it seems to have slipped past you. Notice I say mass, not size, because as you were so eager to point out, Daphnia are mostly water and hence size can be misleading. Oh yes, I can see how the two are similar, but putting the phrase in double apostrophes usually signifies a quotation. I'm sure even you, the conceded unskilled in English, must realise this. Can bbs be aquired free though? I had no idea. Here was me paying $70 a tin for their eggs. Baby Brine Shrimp (bbs) cannot be cultured though. If you try they turn into adult Brine Shrimp and then how would you go about seperating the babies (small enough for baby Axolotls to eat) from the adults?(which are too big usually and even more devoid of nutritional value than you claim Daphnia to be! - because I'm sure even you will admit that the main part of bbs that is of nutritional value is their uneaten egg sac) As for Daphnia cultures dieing easily and without warning, I have no experience with this. I keep my cultures well harvested to avoid overpopulation, which can easily wipe out a population if you don't pay enough attention to it (scooping out a netful of Daphnia each week isn't really too hard though). As the old proverb goes "don't keep all your eggs in one basket" likewise don't keep all your Daphnia in one waterproof container. What might be easier than getting Babelfish to change their website would be for you to learn how to correctly use the English language. Just a thought, though.

Would it fit in a cooler? That's what I used for my piece, but it only fit half in so I kept flipping it around.

Yes, it's called an analogy, drawing lines of similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar. Pay more attention in English. I never called Daphnia a "high qaulity food"(sic) so there's no need to have that in double apostrophes. It would be easy to compare the two if I had the weights of each but they don't seem to be readily available anywhere. I never even pretended that Daphnia had more nutritional value to young Axolotls than bbs (although it's evident that you don't actually know if they are or not). The only thing that I was disputing was your assertion that Daphnia have "little Nutritional value" (note the correct usage of double apostrophes), which they don't. They're low in fat, high in protein easy to keep and entirely free (depending on where you get them from of course, but even if you do pay for them you're paying for free daphnia forever) Sorry it took so long for me to reply, I tried running your post through Babelfish but I found that it doesn't have a "Shae's English to English" option.

It really depends on the piece of wood, no way of telling for sure. I got three pieces at the same time, one took two weeks to sink, another a month and the last a month and a half. Try submerging it in very hot (boiling if you can do it) water and add baking soda to the water. This apparently 'sucks' all the little air bubbles out of the wood. I used this technique to sink my last piece after I got tired of waiting.

Low percentage of fat you mean. How do you know that bbs have more protein just because they have a higher percentage? To use a relevent analogy, just because the Ocean has 3% salt and the Great Salt Lake has something insane like 40%(?) doesn't mean that the Great Salt Lake has more salt in total. And neither of the organisms have stripes.

What is?

I don't feed humans to my fish. I only said that because you were implying that Daphnia were insubstantial because they were 95% water. What I meant by that comment is that most organisms are extrememly high in water, especially those that live in it, for what I thought would be obvious reasons. Brine Shrimp, I suppose, are fairly unique in that respect due to the extremely high salinity of their habitat and the subsequent increase in osmoregulation on their part. I never thought I'd talk about osmoregulation outside high school biology, ever.

So? Humans are 70% water. I'd imagine Brine Shrimp wouldn't be very much either. The percentage of water, in aquatic organisms especially, dcoesn't mean jack.

Where'd you hear that Shae? They're low fat/high protein, almost the perfect fish food.

CAE's stop eating algae and get lazy when they mature though.

AquaHobby.com already has a similar thing going, it's moderated though.

Yeap. They're actually a type of Salamander - most salamanders are aquatic in their larval stage and look exactly like Axolotls, except Axolotls just decided not to grow up.

Try asking at the Caudata.org Forums they're pretty knowledgable there. Fairly simple to raise fry though, just do it as you would fish fry. They can take brine shrimp straight from birth.

If you put Axolotls in with Goldfish you'll end up with just Axolotls. To answer your questions: They don't smell, Eat any sort of meat/high protein food, Fairly easy to keep. What size is your tank? Adults can grow up to 30cm so you'd need at least a 60cm (2ft) tank to keep one adult in. They don't need company, Don't need a UGF but do need some sort of filter (not one with too much flow though! They come from lakes in mexico that aren't very fast flowing - too much circulation damages their gills and stresses them out) They're completely aquatic - don't listen to anything people says about them walking. They can metamorphasize into their terrestrial form sometimes but it's very rare (they're neotenous, which means they stay in their larval form all their life & can breed in it). Any more questions, just shoot.

Awesome man, are those from KM's Jag?

The females are sometimes noticably fatter, but like Angel Finatic said they're really hard to sex.

lol, How big were they? what ate them? Sucks to hear that.

Cool 8) what's that white catfish type fish on the left of the last pic there?

IMO Spanish White is definately the better choice.

This link should work

Planaria. They're mostly harmless yeah, apart from the whole 'eating the eggs' thing.

I've had one kill another CAE too and it seriously injured some corydoras as well, although they didn't die they had big wounds that took them a while to heal.

Oh well mine's usually quite personable, cruising around the tank sucking anything any everything.

Chinese algae eaters eat holes in fish. Plecos eat less algae as they get older but they're in no way lazy...

Cheers for the tip, I'll try giving them some microworm milk tonight. I have noticed that the fry tend to hang around the top near the light most of the time, now that makes sense.