The axolotls hatched at the weekend! Here they are at about 1cm long (5 days old).
At the moment they have no arms or legs and swim around in quick bursts using their tails. They are eating live daphnia which I have been breeding in the tank for a couple of weeks (they can only manage the baby daphnia though, as the adults are larger than their heads!)
You can see in the next picture that the one to the left will be a wild type (brownish green speckly) and the one in the centre will be leucistic (pink)
4 babies in the photo above in total. Did you spot the little fella hiding on the facing surface of the rock? I didn't see him until I uploaded the photo!
You can see the gills quite well in this picture.
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