Hi everyone!
Over the past few weeks, my terrestrial axolotl, Nessie, has stopped eating earthworms. I usually feed her every second day and rotate her diet between bloodworms, beefheart, crickets and earthworms (very occasionally she gets daphnia and pellets, though it's difficult to feed her that). But the past four rotations she has lost interest in the earthworms. When I dangle it in front of her, she'll look at it curiously and may make a half-hearted snap at first, but she'll just refuse to chomp at it like everything else. I've just tried feeding her the earthworm after three and four days after having no food to see if maybe she simply wasn't hungry enough, but I got the same reaction.
She's not off food completely - if I offer her something else she'll snap it up completely. Her tank's been rather hot lately because of the weather (her water temp's now tropical, but there's nothing much I can do about it), but if anything that should have made her more hungry since she's been more active. I've had the earthworms for a few months and while I've fed them, they're not as healthy/robust as they used to be, so is it possible that she's not eating them because there's something wrong with them? Something I can't see? Has anyone else had this problem where their axolotl/salamander has suddenly become picky with their food? ...Is she somehow training me to provide her with her favourite food more often and is this merely part of her evil plan? :uhoh:
Over the past few weeks, my terrestrial axolotl, Nessie, has stopped eating earthworms. I usually feed her every second day and rotate her diet between bloodworms, beefheart, crickets and earthworms (very occasionally she gets daphnia and pellets, though it's difficult to feed her that). But the past four rotations she has lost interest in the earthworms. When I dangle it in front of her, she'll look at it curiously and may make a half-hearted snap at first, but she'll just refuse to chomp at it like everything else. I've just tried feeding her the earthworm after three and four days after having no food to see if maybe she simply wasn't hungry enough, but I got the same reaction.
She's not off food completely - if I offer her something else she'll snap it up completely. Her tank's been rather hot lately because of the weather (her water temp's now tropical, but there's nothing much I can do about it), but if anything that should have made her more hungry since she's been more active. I've had the earthworms for a few months and while I've fed them, they're not as healthy/robust as they used to be, so is it possible that she's not eating them because there's something wrong with them? Something I can't see? Has anyone else had this problem where their axolotl/salamander has suddenly become picky with their food? ...Is she somehow training me to provide her with her favourite food more often and is this merely part of her evil plan? :uhoh:
