Question: Gutloading Worms?

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I will be getting an axolotl either Monday or Tuesday. I'm going to feed it red worms, and I've read a lot of people saying that you should "gutload" worms. I'm assuming that this means feeding them a lot, but what would you feed them? What would be most beneficial?
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Worms are already pretty nutritionally complete. If you wanted to gutload them with a calcium supplement, you can. But it's not necessary.

Gutloading is much more important when you're feeding nutritionally incomplete foods, like crickets or mealworms.
 
You might want to know that some axolotls refuse to eat red wigglers (E. foetida) because they exude a noxious fluid.

However, most axolotls readily accept nightcrawlers. I get mine at walmart.
 
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