Ronni
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So I have a juvenile axolotl who's been with us for a week and a half now, I call it a her (although I won't actually know fora long while!) and her name is lottie. When I got her from the pet shop they told me that they were 8 weeks old and she was about 2 - 2.5 inches long and due to their size they were being tweezer fed TWICE a WEEK most successfully on blood worms and being moved to a container to eat to minimise mess.
This is where the spoiling and the trickiness comes in... Due to said tweezers feeding in separate containers Lottie will absolutely NOT eat in her tank. At all. I can basically almost shoved the food up her nose and she will show no interest at all! But as soon as she hits the water in her feeding bowl she is gills up and ready for dinner! Which is great in theory as it leaves no mess for me to clean up in the tank but it also means that now I have upped her feeds to twice a day as it should be I now have to net and move her each time which doesn't seem to stress her apart from the few seconds trying to catch her and dropping her into her dinner bowl and she realises what deliciousness comes next! So as it stands, she eats 1 cube of bloodworms or brine shrimp 2 times per day, with about a quarter or so lost to wastage because she refuses to eat anything you have dropped and picked up again! See, spoilt! ��
My question is - how long can we keep this up?? And does anyone have any tips to interest her inside her own tank?? I'm quite happy to keep this up (especially while she's eating frozen - thawed brine Shrimp and bloodworms) but once she shows interest in earthworms and such I'd like to get her to eat them in her tank for convenience and to not upset her too much.
I just wanted to add that since I've had her she has almost doubled in size! In just over a week! Sounds odd to me?? Especially as her tank mates still living at the pet store haven't changed much at all.
This is where the spoiling and the trickiness comes in... Due to said tweezers feeding in separate containers Lottie will absolutely NOT eat in her tank. At all. I can basically almost shoved the food up her nose and she will show no interest at all! But as soon as she hits the water in her feeding bowl she is gills up and ready for dinner! Which is great in theory as it leaves no mess for me to clean up in the tank but it also means that now I have upped her feeds to twice a day as it should be I now have to net and move her each time which doesn't seem to stress her apart from the few seconds trying to catch her and dropping her into her dinner bowl and she realises what deliciousness comes next! So as it stands, she eats 1 cube of bloodworms or brine shrimp 2 times per day, with about a quarter or so lost to wastage because she refuses to eat anything you have dropped and picked up again! See, spoilt! ��
My question is - how long can we keep this up?? And does anyone have any tips to interest her inside her own tank?? I'm quite happy to keep this up (especially while she's eating frozen - thawed brine Shrimp and bloodworms) but once she shows interest in earthworms and such I'd like to get her to eat them in her tank for convenience and to not upset her too much.
I just wanted to add that since I've had her she has almost doubled in size! In just over a week! Sounds odd to me?? Especially as her tank mates still living at the pet store haven't changed much at all.
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