Dry powder axolotl fry food

[birdsong]

So I have recently met the owner of a company called aquapharm . He breeds amphibians and has invented an axolotl specific fry food . I have 2dozen eggs acquired from Bette and will be experimenting with different food types with them . One batch I will feed daphnia magna and baby brine shrimp,one batch baby brine shrimp only , one batch daphnia only , and one batch only dry fry food . I was wondering if any one else has experience with dry fry food and if any one has an opinion on the best growth from different types of food they have personally used . Thanks in advance .

 

[rachel1]

I have serious doubts about stimulating prey drive and maintaining water quality with a powdered food. I have read a couple accounts on here of people claiming success with dry foods, but they are few and far between, and I wonder about growth rates. I use daphnia only, supplemented with cyclops from my adult tank, then add bloodworms and live chopped blackworms. Make sure to seperate out only the tiny daphnia for hatchlings- they can't eat the larger adult daphnia and will starve. I use a small pipette- only the small daphnia fit through the opening. Also, they are larvae, not fry- so if he is calling them fry I would hesitate to trust his knowledge base.

 

[Bette]

As rachel1 said, the larvae will only be able to eat the tiny freshly hatched daphnia. That's why most people feed bbs. It's convenient and encourages good growth. I have very good luck feeding bbs. I sometimes supplement grindal worms as well.
I too seriously doubt the success of a dry powdered food... I would think that it would very quickly deteriorate the water quality. Plus, they instinctively snap at live moving prey.

 

[birdsong]

I agree with your statements I guess there's no way to know unless you try. I will monitor the babies on dry food and if they fall too far behind I will switch to bbs and daphnia . I voiced my questions to him about there prey drive reaction and he claimed that the motion of a sponge filter will imitate bbs movement causing the larvae to reaction snap at the granules . He has said that he raises 1,000+ larvae per month on this food. I too am skeptical but interested . I fully expect the live foods to produce better results .

 

[Bette]

Please let us know what your experience is with the dry food.

 

[michael]

What is he calling the food? Is he feeding it to axolotls or to other larvae?

 

[birdsong]

Axolotls he says it performs as well as a daphnia diet he markets it as fish fry food but reports good success with axolotls . It's first two ingredients are fish meal then brine shrimp . It has 67% protein 14% fat and 4% fiber here's a picture sorry it's upside down

 

[birdsong]

Better picture

 

[michael]

How did it work?