Nienora
New member
Hello there,
So, my husband and I decided to delve into rearing some axolotls. We've had adults previously, but I wanted to basically... start from scratch when the time was right. So we purchased 24 eggs from a breeder in Cincinnati; wilds and leucistics. In the two days after hatching (with some assistance from us), we lost 3 for unknown reasons. Now we have 21 healthy, 4 week old Axies. 12 leucistics, 7 green speckled wilds, and 2 dark grey with gold. We plan on keeping 6, and have a short list of individuals who want a couple when the time comes. We recently have separated out the wilds as they tend to be more aggressive towards each other during feeding time.
They've been eating frozen blood worms for the past week, after weaning them off of brine shrimp. Yesterday, I decided to supplement some of their meals with live tubifex worms, since they seem to still be in the stage of snapping at moving targets. They were all actively hunting/stalking/eating them last night. Well, today when I went to feed, only a few of the 21 little axies would attempt to hunt down the worms, the rest seemed afraid and would jump away when ever they would get close to them. I tried to feed them some frozen blood worms with my tweezers at that point and they were terrified of them as well. Any suggestions?
So, my husband and I decided to delve into rearing some axolotls. We've had adults previously, but I wanted to basically... start from scratch when the time was right. So we purchased 24 eggs from a breeder in Cincinnati; wilds and leucistics. In the two days after hatching (with some assistance from us), we lost 3 for unknown reasons. Now we have 21 healthy, 4 week old Axies. 12 leucistics, 7 green speckled wilds, and 2 dark grey with gold. We plan on keeping 6, and have a short list of individuals who want a couple when the time comes. We recently have separated out the wilds as they tend to be more aggressive towards each other during feeding time.
They've been eating frozen blood worms for the past week, after weaning them off of brine shrimp. Yesterday, I decided to supplement some of their meals with live tubifex worms, since they seem to still be in the stage of snapping at moving targets. They were all actively hunting/stalking/eating them last night. Well, today when I went to feed, only a few of the 21 little axies would attempt to hunt down the worms, the rest seemed afraid and would jump away when ever they would get close to them. I tried to feed them some frozen blood worms with my tweezers at that point and they were terrified of them as well. Any suggestions?