So I have two juvenile axolotls and at first I started off with blood worms one cube each then I seen some pointers on how to feed them earthworm (red wiggkers) so now I started feeding the 2 worms each twice a day and they still seem hungry! Well just my leucistic shows it slot by biting the air but my melanoid is a chubby one lol so am I not feeding them enough?
I feed my juvie 2 Black Soldier Fly Larva when I wake up, then drop in a cube of either blood worms or mysis shrimp, (sometimes I do half and half,) along with 3-4 pellets and some carnivore granules. He goes to his bowl and eats the frozen food, pellets and granules through out the day. This evening, his bowl was empty and he was sitting in it, so I gave him 2 more BSFL which he gulped down.
I've started a red wiggler colony - I just have to wait until they breed.
He was 3" when I got him 3-4 weeks ago and really scrawny. With this feeding schedule, he's almost 4" and his belly is as wide as his head, which is how you want it. He's also grown back all the toes that his tank mates at the store nipped off, and can use his left back leg! (He couldn't when we got him.)
A healthy variety is key and juvies eat more often than adults.
