Getting them to eat

[eric]

Hello everyone, I've been trolling around these forums for about a week and I've read most of the Axolotl.org site, just today I had some (25) young Axototls delivered to me. They're currently in a 25 litre tank and a 70 litre tank, I've only had them for just over and hour but I love the little guys, they look constantly like they have a smile on their face and they sit on the top branches of the plants in their aquariums, it's so cute. Most of them are missing at least part of one limb if not more, but I know these will grow back.

My question for you is about feeding them: I've got some 'Axolotl pellets', do I need to hang these in front of their faces or will they find them anyways and eat them?
They're roughly 6cm long each, some are a bit larger.

I'll post some pictures when I find my digital camera.

 

[eric]

hahah! they just answered my question. A pellet I left sitting on a rock was snapped up by one

 

[cynthia]

6cm thats about 2", I think. I fed mine frozen blood worms at that size. If you have the small size axolotl pellets (salmon pellets) they might be able to eat them.

Mine like the pellets dropped just over their head so it floats down right in front of them.

They enjoy "raining bloodworms" as well. But they would eat the bloodworms off the bottom only one of them would eat the pellets off the bottom really well.

Congrats on your new axololts. What are you going to do with them all?

 

[eric]

I'm going to keep a few of them but sell most of them off to friends/pet shops.

I've been cutting the Axolotl pellets in half because they were having to chew them before, like they would spit them out and then bite them again.

 

[mik]

When i feed pellets I drop them onto a peice of slate into the tank. They like to snap at them as they fall but soon learn to eat off the slate 'table'.
Also means that when i hoover the tank with gravel syphon the biggest concentration of rubbish is where pellets have been pushed off slate onto gravel edge.

 

[dot]

When my axolotls were that small, I fed them frozen brine shrimp and didn't start feeding pellets until they were about 10 cm.

 

[eric]

I've actually set up some saucers for their food to go on, they've been eating the pellets off it fine. Because it's sloped inwards most of the food tends to stay in there (unless one of them swims really rapidly over it).