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Question: How much food is too much food?

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mexicola

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I have a one-year-old white axolotl that I adore and he's perfectly fine and happy.
I feed him every day, and it's either a cube of tubifex, a cube of bloodworms, a couple small lance fish or 2-3 earthworms.
Is that too little? Too much? I don't know, he is healthy and everything but he looks so hungry all the time... I mean, whenever I lean over the tank to say hi he swims up to me and starts biting the surface of the water because he thinks I'm giving him food!
And trust me, I believe that if I gave him 15 cubes a day, he would eat 15 cubes a day!

Do you think I should give him more stuff or feed him more often?

Thank you!
 
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As long as his belly is no bigger than his head your fine. Fully grown axies only need feeding every couple of days. The best food is a nice wiggly earthworm but you can use the other stuff as a treat.
 
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