Sashere
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I have an indoor worm farm I set up about ten months ago that houses and breeds the red wigglers our axolotl eats. He's recently begun refusing them and I'm wondering if what I'm feeding the red wigglers is making them more noxious tasting than usual to him. He seems to adore hunting and stalking his live food but is obviously being turned off by the taste now, when for the past year he had been eating red wigglers with no problem. I'm wondering if he doesn't like something I've been feeding the red wigglers or if his tastes have just changed. He will immediately spit the worm out after tasting it now, then notice it wiggling, then bite it, nom nom, spit, stalk, bite, nom nom, spit, stalk, bite, nom nom. Eventually after an embarrassingly long time of doing this he will eat the worm, if he's hungry. He used to eat these happily without all the spitting. The worms are not too big for him. I don't want to blanch them because he likes hunting/stalking live food. I would like to adjust their diet to be less yucky tasting so he will accept them again. In the meantime I've been feeding him sinking carnivore pellets the pet store had been feeding him where I bought him as a juvenile.
**Does anyone have any experience with raising red wigglers to feed axolotls? Have you noticed that your axolotl prefer their worms to have a certain diet? My red wigglers eat coffee grounds, ground egg shell for grit, veg scraps, small amounts of fruit, newspaper or egg cartons with food grade dye.**
Basic info: male axolotl, has been with us a year, is approx 18 months old, healthy looking, poops regularly, active at dawn and dusk, likes to sit on plastic plants, do axolotl yoga moves or just sit still staring into space during the day. Typical axolotl behavior. In the year we've had him he's grown from 5.5 inches in length to 10 inches in length. He's solo in the tank. He has handsome gill stalks with lots of frills. He eats carnivore sinking pellets but those have fillers like gluten and I'd rather feed him from the worm farm that took some time and money to set up and maintain and provides better nutrition.
55 gal cycled and dechlor tank, fine sand substrate, HOB filter with baffle/diffuser for low flow, sponge filter, some fake plants and a couple hides. Ammonia zero, Nitrite, zero, Nitrate less than 20 ppm - Consistently good water quality.
I want to emphasize that he is healthy and I am aware that red wigglers are called eisenia fetida because of their fetid odor/natural self defense. My question is specifically if anyone has experience adjusting the diet of their worm farm to make the worms more attractive to their axolotl?
**Does anyone have any experience with raising red wigglers to feed axolotls? Have you noticed that your axolotl prefer their worms to have a certain diet? My red wigglers eat coffee grounds, ground egg shell for grit, veg scraps, small amounts of fruit, newspaper or egg cartons with food grade dye.**
Basic info: male axolotl, has been with us a year, is approx 18 months old, healthy looking, poops regularly, active at dawn and dusk, likes to sit on plastic plants, do axolotl yoga moves or just sit still staring into space during the day. Typical axolotl behavior. In the year we've had him he's grown from 5.5 inches in length to 10 inches in length. He's solo in the tank. He has handsome gill stalks with lots of frills. He eats carnivore sinking pellets but those have fillers like gluten and I'd rather feed him from the worm farm that took some time and money to set up and maintain and provides better nutrition.
55 gal cycled and dechlor tank, fine sand substrate, HOB filter with baffle/diffuser for low flow, sponge filter, some fake plants and a couple hides. Ammonia zero, Nitrite, zero, Nitrate less than 20 ppm - Consistently good water quality.
I want to emphasize that he is healthy and I am aware that red wigglers are called eisenia fetida because of their fetid odor/natural self defense. My question is specifically if anyone has experience adjusting the diet of their worm farm to make the worms more attractive to their axolotl?