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Shrimp for Axolotls

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I'm looking at getting an axolotl and I was wondering if the would be able to eat dried or frozen shrimp or does it have to be alive?
 
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Dried shrimp have no nutritional value. You can feed frozen as a supplement to their diet, but I wouldn't use it as a staple.
 
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It's not clear what kind of "shrimp" you are referring to. There are brine shrimp, freshwater shrimp, the kind of shrimp you get in the grocery store, and probably some other kinds I'm not thinking of. There are several ways that you could supplement an axolotl's diet with shrimp, but I wouldn't plan on this as the primary food.
 
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I'm talking about brine shrimp. Does anyone have a link to a site that has required nutritional information? I want to pamper this guy when I get him!
 
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Live brine shrimp is sort of impractical to feed axolotls, as they are small in size for even the smaller axies...and spot feeding would be very slow and tedious...you could, however, feed f/t brine shrimp cubes but this is also very messy. Why not go with larger live feeders?
 
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What do you meen by larger live feeders Michael? Do you meen adult brine shrimp? what do you meen by would be able to eat dried or frozen shrimp or does it have to be live, Jmtonkin? Do you meen could frozen or freez dried brine shrimp be an alterintive for live for a axolotl larva, if a larva could eat live babybrine shrimp, but im not shure about frozen because most axies if not all when they hatch only eat live food which move sinse they don't count on smell to find there food like adults and use site to find it. If your talking about an adult axolotl the best thing to feed it is live earth worms. Hope I've helped.
Sam:happy:
 
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