Feeding newborn axolotls

fahrenheitfan1 · Nov 18, 2012

Hey everyone, i have some new born axolotls feeding on freshly hatched brine shrimp, i can't seem to find daphnia here in canada, i live in the gta, i can only find micro worms but i heard they can't live on that, can i feed them chopped up bloodworms, i have not had any success hatching brine shrimp, the brine shrimp they are feeding was given to me by the seller, any ideas on what to feed them, i can't find black worms ethier

Dr0gr1n · Nov 18, 2012

You basically need the live food till the back legs come in and they are big enough to eat chopped bloodworms. What kind of bbs eggs do you have, and how are you going about hatching them?

There are a few good tutorials on YouTube to get brine shrimp to hatch.

Tutorial: Brine Shrimp Hatchery - YouTube

cowpachipixi · Nov 18, 2012

I have been feeding my hatchlings (from day 1) chopped bloodworms with a eye dropper and they are growing just fine. I have a few albums with each weeks process and growth if you'd like to look. some times it takes a few times, just use the dropper to suck the peice back up and retry they will suck it up in no time!

gl!

Dr0gr1n · Nov 19, 2012

Hand feeding larvae like that is fine if you only have a couple. I feel it would get very old fast if you have more than a couple.

I find live food a lot easier to add to the container and check back at the next feeding with a water cleaning followed by a new feed.

I have never hatched less than 30 eggs so pretty much have to do live food. I also feel live freshly hatched bbs are more nutritious than frozen blood worms.

fahrenheitfan1 · Nov 20, 2012

thanks every one

Chugga · Nov 22, 2012

I would only consider live feeding hatchlings - but for different reasons.

Nature is very good at sorting weak from strong - live feeding requires the larvae have both good instinct and the physical attributes necessary to be able to CATCH its own food. For that reason alone I would not consider hand feeding. Sure it might survive but that doesnt mean it was actually fit enough.

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