Feeding Baby Axolotl

I raced home from work tonight to check on my baby Axolotls, (and greet my lovely family, of course)! My biggest concern, as this is my first time raising baby axolotl from the egg, has been feeding them. So far I have fed them frozen blood worm, but as they are so tiny (about 10mm), it is difficult to really see if they are eating much of it. I am mainly being guided by the fact that the four hatchlings are active at four days old, my fear being that they will starve, as I have been unable to provide them with a live food source. So this morning I decided to try giving them some protein rich, boiled egg yolk, just to give the precious ones an alternative option. It was blood worms again for dinner tonight. Mean while, the five 'late developers' are still wiggling inside their eggs. No casualties so far, fingers crossed!

New Baby Axolotl

I have a beautiful axolotle called Nessie. He is black, about 12 months old, and 17cm long. He is very cute and active. I get so much enjoyment from watching Nessie's antics, that I recently decided to start looking around for a potential wife for him. I looked around at a few pet shops, but didn't find any suitable candidates, ie a healthy and happy looking female of breeding age/size. I eventually came across a tank with a male axolotl, and many eggs! I could see the babies within the eggs moving! Apparently the female had recently been sold. The pet shop kindly agreed to sell me the artificial coral piece, in the tank, that had some eggs attached. They also sold me some frozen micro worms to feed them on. I knew from previous reading that axolotl larvae require live food, but bought the frozen food as back up. I brought my precious cargo home to the surprise of my children. My ten year old daughter commented that I seemed to have missed a step in my breeding plans for Nessie! I found nine eggs with live babies within them. I put each into a small separate jar. So far four have hatched, they are three days old at present. The other five are still alive within their eggs. I keep checking the 'late developers' for signs of life. They occasionally do triple back flips within their eggs, Olympic stuff!