Are they blind

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Hey everyone. When ever i feed my Axo it always seems to take him/her (i don't know yet) a long time to find the food i've dropped in. I use small squares of beef, heart and liver. Some people have told me that they're blind while others have told me otherwise. Just curious to find out whether or not they are.

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They can't see very well so i have herd, I eather wave the food infront of there faces or connect it to a stick and lower it down.
 
i have often wondered that too especially wen they eat gravel!!! I'm quite sure as they are considered in their laval form still their eyesite is pretty poor but they definalty respond really well to movement.
 
Yeah, i have just changed to large stones in my tank because he ate a whole lot of gravel. Haha, when i cleaned out my tank last week i found about 12 small stones in the bottom.

Also, is having a light on in the tank going to affect him much. Does the light bother them at all.
 
I stuck my Brine Shrimp in front of my Axy and he actually chomps it straight away!! You can even try to teach them to sit on your hand like I've taught my Dragoon.
 
i have a new axolotl and he or she (i don't know) keeps on walking into the glass and keeps on walking like it doesn't even know its there.
and when it does realise that it isn't getting anywhere it turns and walks into the other glass. is it really blind, and i fed mine three times yester, little pieces if red meat, and when i tried to feed it today it wouldn't even nibble, is something wrong with it?

p.s i only got it yesterday.
 
nar its probably fine, just settling in to its new home. read the sections about feeding as a diet based on mammal meat can lead to problems. mine walk into the glass sometimes, i assume its because its clear... i dont think they are blind because if you wiggle your finger above the water they look up at you. have you read axolotl.org? that answers alot of problems that axies can develop. keep us posted justine
 
Predatory aquatic animals usually hunt by smell, have poor vision, and react to movement only.
 
Justine - If you are feeding red meat as a staple diet you might want to consider switching to night crawlers and if you can find them a soft salmon pellet.

Red meat used to be the norm in axolotl feeding but has since been discouraged as axolotls have problems digesting mammal meat.
 
I'm convinced the eldest of my 2 axolotls watches TV. Especially if I'm playing Playstation on it.
He (I think) only goes into the corner of the tank that the TV is viewable from if it's switched on.
If I put non-moving food into the tank they're a bit slow on the uptake, but if I put live stuff in they can't move to it quick enough.
I don't think they're blind, just chilled out.
 
LOL Selena...

Yes mine do that to!

I notice your in Bucks... Guess what.. so am I.. In milton keynes actually
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Good luck with your axies and welcome to the forum!
 
Cheers Kim.
I'm down at the other end of the county near Maidenhead and Slough.
Is there any good places up your way to go for axie stuff?
I tend to go Heathrow way for all my stuff, but I'm always looking to find new places.
 
i think they're not completely blind, just really really bad vision. Foetus seems to always watch my boyfriend tim. And when we put our fingers inthe water he looks at them. i think its just because he can sense the water movements though. Aren't their furry little gills sensors aswell?
 
It's not their gills that are the sensors. They have a system of specialized cells called a lateral line that sense water motion. Almost all aquatic animals have them.

There seems to be some debate as to how good their eyesite is. They definetly react to light and movement though.
 
my axie tank is in my bedroom on my side of the room {of course}. When i go to bed i read every night and my axie, Milkyway, stares at me. i find i very funny cause if i leave the room her little head follows me out the door and she stares at the door till i return but if my husband comes in the room she couldnt care less. i always look at the position of her eyes and cause i have horses i think its the same sort of line of vision. Horses cant see directly in front or behind themselves, this may also apply to axies. this is my opinion so it could be wrong ha ha
 
My axolotls watch me all the time. If I'm laying on my bed (the short end of their tank faces my bed), they'll stack up in the corner to stare at me. Sometimes it gets a little weird when I have my boyfriend there and the axolotls are watching us.
 
For Selena: Try Iver Flowerlands garden centre in Iver (near Langley). They've got axies and suitable food in their Maidenhead Aquatics concession. Hope that saves you traipsing to Heathrow.
 
Our axolotls have some vision, we think. We can wave our hands over (not in) the water in the tank, and they look up (and swim up) thinking that food is on the way. Also, they will occasionally follow us with head movements as we work around the front of their tanks. Their vision probably isn't so good, but there's enough there to pick up big, clumsy human movement ;)
 
My Axolotl watches if people come into the room and as soon as a arm or hand goes near the tank he is very alert and swimming up, expecting to get food.
 
I made a discovery. When the light in my tank is on, the axies cant see me. But when the light is off, they can see me.
I have come to the conclusion that this is because I only cast a shadow over the tank when the light is off.
So therefor it would be reasonable to assume that axies respond to our shadows, and the movement of our shadows.
But ill just keep pretending that they can see me, and know who i am.
 
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