A student here at TESLA adopted a pair of axolotls towards the end of the school year last year. They were hatched as a school project. He named them Benito and Hector, not knowing that one was, in fact, female. They aren't even a year old now and have parented healthy embryos. We estimate that they were in the tank for about five days before last Tuesday when he brought them to school.
We have had the embryos in a Sterilite container with the fake plants they were laid for seven days, and they are developing quite well. We have a constant fan keeping it cool and a sponge filter for oxidation and filtering the water. We only use spring water, but will have to start dechlorinating our own water as our supply has run low.
When the babies hatch, we will feed them baby brine shrimp. Today, I set up a culture that will hopefully be productive. It is in a one gallon fish bowl with aquarium tubing supplying a constant flow of bubbles, three liters of water, three tablespoons of aquarium salt, and a warming wire wrapped around it. I put the shrimp in about 3:00 PM today, so they should hatch tomorrow.
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