Can I feed them too much?

WaterLizards · Nov 16, 2007

Hi Everyone

I am minding my daughter's Axolots for 3 weeks. She said they often didn't eat for a week or more, however, they seem to be very hungry and I am worried about over feeding them? Estiban is approx 17 cms long (from tip of tail to mouth) and Shinagami is around 14cm. Esti can't eats lots of liver and steak, Shini loves earthworms and sometimes a little steak and pellets. They will both eat everyday if I give them food. Esti seems very hungry everyday? Is it possible to over feed them?

Chrissy

Bellabelloo · Nov 16, 2007

Having looked at your photo's the wild type ( darker) one is rather skinny. I personally would offer them a live worm each daily, or equivalent ( thin slivers of raw meat/ tiger prawn etc.) . Axolotl can be over fed..but usually on the wrong diet..i have noticed on e of my juveniles is looking a little porky because it prefers to wait for me to drop the pellets in rather than eat the worms.
One other thing I noticed is whilst the rocks look really good, they are prone to trapping waste under neath them, so it makes it a little fiddly to do. Try to remove uneaten food/ waste regularly and when you do the 20 % water change ( dechlorinated ) concentrate on sucking the waste from under the rocks... I hope I haven't put you off the little beasties!!

MRIGUY · Nov 16, 2007

I second both comments. Those dudes are thin, and while my preference is to under rather than overfeed, they need to add bodymass for long term health. The rocks are nice. I atually like the large rocks because it is easy to just lift them out and suck the waste from under them. The tricky part is not dropping them on the glass bottom.

philbaker76 · Nov 17, 2007

I had a couple of rescued Axolotls recently, a couple of worms a day (or the odd slug or cricket) soon put the weight on them. You can over feed them, as Bellabelloo/MRIGUY said; the dark one looks a little thin.

ianclick · Nov 17, 2007

As a general rule of thumb the body should be about the same width as the head, bigger getting overweight, smaller underweight.

Your dark coloured wildtype looks well underweight. I would give it a small feed everyday for a few weeks, actually looking at the photos again they both do. Its no biggy small daily feeds will help them bulk up.

Good Luck

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