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matt
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Hello again,
Just wanted to mention a new behaviour my much-prized golden Albino axolotl is now exhibiting - to my concern.
Basically, he has suddenly started spitting out worms previously ingested. Until recently his appetite for worms was enormous. The first time he did it I thought he had at last learned the idea of "enough already"!
Since then he has not kept one worm, his former favourite, down. He seems otherwise healthy, alert and active (for an axolotl...) although his appetite is a little reduced.
He is mostly eating daphnia at the moment, something I thought would be too small to notice. I guess he can't live on that forever. I'm hoping to get some of his second favourite food, bloodworm, this week, as a test. I tried him this evening with the worms again - two eagerly devoured, then thrown back up.
MY QUESTIONS:
*Is this anything to worry about?
*Could I have "damaged" him with other food stuffs in the run-up to the time when he started to do this? He had a small ball of tubifex (which I know can be oily / bad for the liver) and a small wax moth larva (which took a lot of spitting out and sucking back in.)
*The habit started after I tried him with three garden, not mail-order, worms. Two were eaten - then he spat out his first (and hasn't stopped).
Significant?
Thanks for any ideas or reassurance.
Just wanted to mention a new behaviour my much-prized golden Albino axolotl is now exhibiting - to my concern.
Basically, he has suddenly started spitting out worms previously ingested. Until recently his appetite for worms was enormous. The first time he did it I thought he had at last learned the idea of "enough already"!
Since then he has not kept one worm, his former favourite, down. He seems otherwise healthy, alert and active (for an axolotl...) although his appetite is a little reduced.
He is mostly eating daphnia at the moment, something I thought would be too small to notice. I guess he can't live on that forever. I'm hoping to get some of his second favourite food, bloodworm, this week, as a test. I tried him this evening with the worms again - two eagerly devoured, then thrown back up.
MY QUESTIONS:
*Is this anything to worry about?
*Could I have "damaged" him with other food stuffs in the run-up to the time when he started to do this? He had a small ball of tubifex (which I know can be oily / bad for the liver) and a small wax moth larva (which took a lot of spitting out and sucking back in.)
*The habit started after I tried him with three garden, not mail-order, worms. Two were eaten - then he spat out his first (and hasn't stopped).
Significant?
Thanks for any ideas or reassurance.