Faran Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 Hi all, I've been keeping (and breeding) axies for over a year now and I absolutely love them. In the middle of last year I got some golden juveniles from a seller in Tauranga and they've just spawned for the first time on Friday/Saturday for me. Pretty exciting and intersting as it's so hard to determine if this batch is good to go or a bunch of duds. From what I can tell on the Albino Embryo Photo Log they're developing properly but it's still hard to tell if the eggs are... cytolysing or neurulating (got that from the photo series). Macro on my camera is too bad to get a quality shot, bummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repto Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 cause you can!!they fall into the amphibian part quite well?you should be able to tell quite quickly if the eggs are duds,fungus etc will take hold pretty quick,good ones you can see the changing shape of the embryo fairly easily,from round to like a little half moon?good luck with them ,they take a lot of live food but if you can keep the food up to them they grow fast,need heaps of tanks with less babies in each.Whiteworms worked well for me till I run out,then it was chaos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FineArtist Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 it is pretty cool.... it would be really interesting to see these ugly/cute things grow... I am heading out your way on thrusday to work at the NewDowse, if you still need photos I can help out.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faran Posted February 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 Aww thanks FineArtist, if you want to have a go at taking some pics of my fish I'd love some by a pro. The axie eggs are a bit distorted due to curving in the sides of the plastic container they're in, but go for it! ...but losing the ability to metamorphosize kinda takes them out of the amphibian class and back to fish :lol: Water is lightly treated with Methylene Blue to prevent fungus growth so duds won't be too obvious from that alone. I can definitely see a difference between some which are still fully spherical and others that have compressed vertically (half moon from the side) which would indicate proper embryo development according to the photo series. Funny thing is, I'm still not sure if the one I think is a male is actually a male. Hardly any difference in the cloaca between the 4. They bred in a bare bottom plastic container which I now read is pretty hard to do as the spermataphores don't attach properly. Pretty sure I can see some rolling around the container now looking like massive eggs but curious how they managed to spawn... Either way I'm happy to have eggs surprisingly soon. Crossing my fingers hoping for a good fert and hatch rate as there's only about 40 eggs max. On the bright side, the daphnia are booming - right in time! Gonna start with the daphnia (trying to feed out of my cultures rather than collect from the wild), then on to chopped frozen bloodworms to full bloodworms then on to progressively larger bits of beef heart. Worked well for my previous batches but if you have better advice, I'm keen! Oh, I always managed to kill off my white worms. Might have better luck now as I have a cool place for them - always too warm in my previous fish rooms but now I'm setting up a "cold water section" - but no goldies... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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