Amphibian pellets

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Hi, I am looking into using amphibian pellets instead of trout pellets for my A.mexicanum, A.andersoni, P.waltl and X.laevis. I generally use as much live food as I can with the bulk of their diet being composed of earthworms with roaches, pachnoda grubs, feeder fish , shrimp and young axolotl making up the rest in addition to the inverts which I encourage to colonize the tanks. Unfortunately my home grown or collected worm supply is running short and I need to find an alternate food source asap. Are there benefits to using the specialist amphibian pellets over trout pellets ? The products I have been looking at are Xenopus Express Products - Xenopus Suppliers (the pellets are halfway down the page) and Pollywog Amphibian Pellets Thanks. Ian.
 
none of my aquatic amphibians will take either of these except the Spanish Ribbed Newts and VERY occassionally an axolotl - generally they just lie at the bottom of the tank disintegrating
 
LeFarge said:
none of my aquatic amphibians will take either of these except the Spanish Ribbed Newts and VERY occassionally an axolotl - generally they just lie at the bottom of the tank disintegrating
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Thanks for the response, do your amphibians eat trout pellets?
 
My Axolotls eat amphibian pellets and bloodworms mostly. They're still juveniles, but they seem to like them as long as you hand feed them and not just drop the pellets in (by hand feed, I mean I use pincers)
 
I like the large sized trout pellets. Normally the amphibian pellets sold in a local pet shop are two small for axies. They are geared for smaller newts. Pellets also are probably the # 1 cause of Axolotls eating gravel. So if you have gravel do not use them at all. You would be better off feeding slivers of trout, salmon, farm raised shrimp or even the tail meat from crayfish if you can legally harvest them.
 
Coastal Groovin said:
I like the large sized trout pellets. Normally the amphibian pellets sold in a local pet shop are two small for axies. They are geared for smaller newts. Pellets also are probably the # 1 cause of Axolotls eating gravel. So if you have gravel do not use them at all. You would be better off feeding slivers of trout, salmon, farm raised shrimp or even the tail meat from crayfish if you can legally harvest them.
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Thanks, the largest pellets by xenopus express are 4.5mm so they should be ok size wise for adult axolotls. I dont use gravel and the pellets I have used are dropped on to feeding trays inside the tanks to reduce sand consumption. I am trying to find if there are any benefits from using amphibian pellets rather than trout pellets. Think I forgot to mention that I feed fresh trout to my andersoni and axolotls, for some reason my ACF are not too fond of it and my P.waltl will starve to death before they eat it which I find astounding considering that they seem to eat everything else.
 
I use axolotl formulated pellets and they produce rather good results. They work particularly well in rapidly growing larvae and juveniles. I´m currently using three different pellet sizes, from tiny 0,5-1mm ones to the average 3mm. Even smallish larvae will eat them, i´m rather pleased with them.
I haven´t tested wether axolotl pellets are better than trout pellets but from what i can tell their nutritional value is somewhat different and i work under the assumption (which i feel is justified) that the nutritional value of axolotl formulated pellets should be more optimal.
 
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