A few of the embryos have hatched! Right now, the babies are sitting on the bottom of their tank; that is normal behavior. They are currently feeding off of the leftover egg, so we won't feed them brine shrimp until tomorrow. The brine shrimp also had a successful hatching. We have one culture started and are planning on starting another Monday. Today I put some brine shrimp and an embryo under our microscope. It was extremely fascinating. If you focused hard enough, you could even see blood pulsing through the embryo's gills. The brine shrimp were cool as well; they swam around really quickly, and there were so many of them. Everyone at TESLA were thankful for the successful hatching - especially the axolotls! The baby brine shrimp will be their only source of food for three weeks until we are able to buy adult brine shrimp at the pet store.
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