Question: What kind of food can i feed baby axolotls?

I am wanting to start to breed my axolotls.
what kind of food can i feed baby axolotls?
i now about brine shrimp and Daphnia but can i feed them microworms or whiteworms
and other types of food for newly hatched axolotls.

AW: What kind of food can i feed baby axolotls?

Hi,

here you can find good information on food for small caudate larvae:
Caudata Culture Articles - Microfoods
And maybe this article is helpful, too:
Axolotls - Rearing from Egg to Adult

I haven't kept axolotls yet, but from my experience with larvae of other salamanders and newts, whiteworms usually are too big for recently hatched larvae. Mabye they eat them if you chop the whiteworms in smaller pieces, but remember that during the first time little axolotls only eat moving food. So if the pieces of white worms fall directly in front of a larva's mouth it will probably prey on it, but maybe it will ignore it if the pieces of worms are lying on the ground without moving.
I noticed that it can help if you move the piece of worm in front of the larvae's mouths a bit with a toothpick or a similiar tool. Not too much, only as much as a live worm would move. That worked quite well with my larvae of fire salamanders.
But whiteworms are not good to be fed as a sole food. I'd recommend to feed larvae of brine shrimps, daphnia, moina and freshwater copepods. And whiteworms only from time to time as an addition.

Peter

My babies are one month old now. I started them on freshly hatched brine shrimp for the first week or so and I am now feeding them finely cut up live black worm. They are growing really well and casualties are low. I have tried many times to successfully raise axie babies and this is by far the best result I have had with feeding. Just remember to keep them clean and keep the food coming. Best of luck