What foods do you feed your axolotls?

Hey Amy :D
Is your axie currently on those glass marbles?
They could quite easily be eaten and i wouldnt risk it, so removing them would be best.

Crickets arent a good option as they lack the nutrients and their exoskeleton is hard so the axies cant digest the chitin very well.

If you need a temporary food, then axie/salmon pellets with some bloodworm will be okay for a few weeks.
If you get enough earthworms, and feed them mashed potato (plain no milk or butter ect, just sprinkle a thin layer across the top of the soil) the worms will breed like crazy and you shouldnt need to buy them ever again :p

On to the general thread, my axies get dendrobaena earthworms as 90% of their diet and the other 10% is axie pellets.
Im currently attempting to breed red cherry shrimp so i can add a couple of these to the tank for them to hunt :D
 
Oh no shes now on rocks and slate :) I took them out my avatar is an old photo ^^ thankyou for the advice are crickets good as a treat then? And with the bloodworm obviously its not as nutrtious as a worm so what do you recommend the amount I give her? :) I chop the frozen cube in qquarters for my baby as I now feed him out of the syringe and he eats 2 full worms then doesnt want to eat anymore... it also saves money too ^^ so how many cubes ? :) Thankyou again :)

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When i got my two axies, there were some rosy red minnows in with them, they eventually ate all but one, who got too big and fat to eat and now is a pet, I guess.
I bought them some more, but they seem to only like eating the grey ones, not the orange ones.
I'm afraid I will have a bunch of fat orange minnows now...

They also eat red wrigglers from my worm compost bin, bloodworms, and I have fed them bits of lean chicken (I know people seem to think that is bad, so I have stopped, but they did like it), and a cricket to one of them once.
It was quite fiesty and I had to grab it with tongs and push it to the bottom of the tank a couple times before my female could grab it.
 
I had the same problem with the crickets, until my axie went for it and it sort of stopped :-/. Ive heard alot about these minnows and how people feed them to their axies...so you got more little companions than expected because your axies done abit of selective feeding haha quite nice of them really haha!... yh ive only heard recently not to feed them meats I mean it werent all the time just when we had turkey and thats once maybe twice (at a push) a year; dont want to risk anything with my beautiful girl though I guess ^^ thankyou for sharing :)

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What about Locust, they're more "meatier" then crickets and have more protein, vitamins etc. But I'm not sure if they would be good for Axies. My Tiger Sal loves them though!
 
smiley1996 said:
Awww as soon as you can take some pics of the beauties you so should and show us! :) awww bless them what ones have you got? And a very good planned diet! :)

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I just added some photos (not the best quality but I hope to get some better ones soon) to the gallery subforum :)

I have one Golden Albino called Jack and one Wildtype called Hector (Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa, I am a bit of a fan of the Pirates movies...) :happy:
 
Thats awesome I will go check them out! I love the names, mines called Dyson after the hoover lol? My next one maybe Henry but dont know haha! :') Golden is what I originally wanted they are beautiful and Dysons a wildtype :)

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Crickets are okay as an occasion treat.

Feed as many cubes as it takes to keep their tummy the same width as their head, it depends on how big your axie is, an adult axies could probs eat 5 cubes each, so its best to give them pellets too, or the bloodworm will become very expensive :(

For a month or 2 pellets and bloodworm will be absolutley fine :D

Shrimp make a good treat, as do guppies, but i personally couldnt feed a little fish to them.
The key is that it stays occasional.
 
Im yet to try guppies and shrimp, dont know if I will as of yet ^^
I understand what you mean its expensive at the minute for Dyson eating the bloodworm and the baby doing the same haha!
Ive gone to my front garden where no pesticides were used and dug some worms up today so she will most definitely be on them soon. I havent got no pellets I will most definitely invest in them though! Anything thats best for my Dyson. :D
My baby is around 1.2 inches and 6 weeks old, when can he/she start having chopped earthworms? :)
Thankyou Layna :)

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If you can chop the earthworms small enough that she will be able to eat them then you can try - babies sometimes don't go for dead things though. You may have to blanch the worm bits first, worms can secrete a slime that some axies are fussy about.

I do this by boiling a bit of extra water when I make tea, putting the worm to be blanched in a mug, turning the tap on cold, and then sloshing a bit of boiling water into the mug and immediately sticking it under the cold water, so the worm doesn't get cooked.

At 1 1/2 inches long, your baby might also like white worms - I got a culture at a local aquarium shop (not a pet shop, an aquarium specialty shop), and the culture is easy to keep - you just keep the soil moist and feed it moist bread every now and then. Some folks say they are not a good staple as they tend to be fatty, but I think they only get really fatty when you feed them bread soaked in milk.
 
Oh great! Thankyou, not done white worms. My baby eats loads hes eating like 2/3 bloodworms a day ... haha!
Id like to get him on the best nutritional diet asap :)
Thankyou for your information its helped lots!
My adult axie isnt as fussed from what ive seem with the secretion. She never spits them out?
Whereas my baby one probably would be haha :D whatever helps :) thankyou again ^^

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at 1.2" id have them on daphnia and bloodworm.

Daphnia are great because you can just shove a load in the water and they wont die until theyre eaten.
But the easiest thing is the bloodworm, use that until hes around 3/4" then move onto chopped up earthworm or invest in some baby earthworms so you wont have to chop them.

White worms are okay for a week or two but they dont offer the correct nutrition for a growing axie.
 
Thankyou Layna, the baby is on bloodworm at the minute. Happy to now have a guideline as to when he can have earthworms :D

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Hi Amy,

I see you are in the UK so I just wanted to let you know that you can get frozen bloodworm from Pets at Home and they do a deal for 5 packs for £10 - that's where I get all of mine. Very handy if you have a local store.

I also get red worms from my local angling shop :)
 
selfster88 said:
Hi Amy,

I see you are in the UK so I just wanted to let you know that you can get frozen bloodworm from Pets at Home and they do a deal for 5 packs for £10 - that's where I get all of mine. Very handy if you have a local store.

I also get red worms from my local angling shop :)
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Pets at Home only sell Nutra brand. My axies don't actually like them, they prefer BCUK brand - they are bigger bloodworms. Most pet stores do a 5 for £10 deal on frozen food too.

And some worms in bait shops are raised in chemically treated soil - make sure you ask if they are organically raised.
 
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