eggdropsoup
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Hi guys, I got a leucistic little guy (or gal? I've just been using boy pronouns until I can determine otherwise) two months ago. I don't know how old he was, just that he was small enough to fit in the bottom of a water bottle and not have to curve his tail at all, probably around 1.5 inches (3.8 cm).
I stopped using the little hard pellets the person I bought him from gave me after a few weeks and bought some soft salmon pellets from Ed's Fly Meat, and Mochi has been growing like a weed ever since. At least, it seems that way. He's just shy of 4 inches (10 cm) now. So clearly I'm doing something right, right?
I just wanted to get other people's input on feeding a lil guy around this size. Because I just the other day found out that I should be feeding him twice a day, and I had only been doing it once a day.
I was feeding him five or six of the pellets a day, and now after reading that I've been doing four or five in the morning and three or four at night. If you have these pellets, I'm talking about the ones that are already broken smaller, I pick around and leave the big ones for when he's bigger.
For those that don't have them, http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/TbUAAOSwPc9WzPgF/s-l300.jpg this is what they look like. The picture looks to be true to their real size.
Am I just overthinking this? I guess my concern is that I could be feeding him too much. I just know that overfeeding can kill fish, and I figure that axolotls probably have the same thing where they eat the food if it's there, even if it's too much for them. Because there's definitely never any leftovers!
I stopped using the little hard pellets the person I bought him from gave me after a few weeks and bought some soft salmon pellets from Ed's Fly Meat, and Mochi has been growing like a weed ever since. At least, it seems that way. He's just shy of 4 inches (10 cm) now. So clearly I'm doing something right, right?
I just wanted to get other people's input on feeding a lil guy around this size. Because I just the other day found out that I should be feeding him twice a day, and I had only been doing it once a day.
I was feeding him five or six of the pellets a day, and now after reading that I've been doing four or five in the morning and three or four at night. If you have these pellets, I'm talking about the ones that are already broken smaller, I pick around and leave the big ones for when he's bigger.
For those that don't have them, http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/TbUAAOSwPc9WzPgF/s-l300.jpg this is what they look like. The picture looks to be true to their real size.
Am I just overthinking this? I guess my concern is that I could be feeding him too much. I just know that overfeeding can kill fish, and I figure that axolotls probably have the same thing where they eat the food if it's there, even if it's too much for them. Because there's definitely never any leftovers!