IWishIWasAFish
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We've been hand feeding our young juvenile axolotls, and they're totally sure now that fingers are a food source. It's hilarious. They let the kids in my class feed and touch them gently on the backs without getting scared. They don't see, to mind our sort of bright plant light at all.
However, it's totally labor intensive to feed them this way. Also, we just swapped for a future breeding partner for one of them, and he doesn't like the light and finds fingers a bit scary. It's very challenging to place pellets right in front of a black axolotl in a dark tank without touching it.
Do other people just drop pellets in the water? Will our axolotls find the salmon pellets if I do that over school breaks? Is there some other sort of creative pellet delivery device that people use? We do have other foods we feed them, but I'm going to try pellets as a winter staple. I bet we can dig plenty of earthworms the rest of the year.
We have a 30 gallon tall, moderately planted tank with a black sand substrate. Part of the tank has an overhanging mossy swamp for extra filtration and water flow reduction, and is thus very hard to reach. That's the black axolotls favorite part.
Thanks!
However, it's totally labor intensive to feed them this way. Also, we just swapped for a future breeding partner for one of them, and he doesn't like the light and finds fingers a bit scary. It's very challenging to place pellets right in front of a black axolotl in a dark tank without touching it.
Do other people just drop pellets in the water? Will our axolotls find the salmon pellets if I do that over school breaks? Is there some other sort of creative pellet delivery device that people use? We do have other foods we feed them, but I'm going to try pellets as a winter staple. I bet we can dig plenty of earthworms the rest of the year.
We have a 30 gallon tall, moderately planted tank with a black sand substrate. Part of the tank has an overhanging mossy swamp for extra filtration and water flow reduction, and is thus very hard to reach. That's the black axolotls favorite part.
Thanks!