Hookwyrm
New member
Hello everybody, my name is Alexander and this is my first post on here! I've had an Axolotl for about 4 months now, he has grown pretty big in that time from just a very small little thing. c:
He was pretty reluctant to eat at first until I started digging for worms for him in the garden, and I have pretty much been feeding him on mostly earthworms since then, he really loves them and he'll always eat them.
However now it's winter and very cold outside, and the ground is too solid for any worms to be anywhere near the surface. The lady at the aquarium store I got him from told me that he had never taken pellets so she fed him exclusively on bloodworms, and I have found the same to be true about the pellets, however I also have difficulty getting him to eat bloodworms. He will swim right at the baster I'm using to offer them with, press his nose into them but never bite. He'll do this for some time and then just swim away, despite the fact that I know he's hungry. :c
In addition to this I am going away for 4 days in February. While it would probably be possible for me to arrange for people to come in and feed him, this would involve moving his tank setup, teaching them how to feed him, and asking a lot of neighbours I don't know all that well...
I have seen online that brine shrimp are a good source of live food for axolotls, would it be possible for me to breed some and put a few of them in with him for him to hunt over the time that I'm gone?
Of course I would check in advance that he would take them, but otherwise I'm not sure what else to go with, my old goldfish would have a pellet that slowly broke up for them, but I'm not sure if axolotls can eat anything similar or if mine would even if there was such a thing! :c
Erm, Yeah, thanks in advance for any suggestions that you have, apologies for writing so much!
He was pretty reluctant to eat at first until I started digging for worms for him in the garden, and I have pretty much been feeding him on mostly earthworms since then, he really loves them and he'll always eat them.
However now it's winter and very cold outside, and the ground is too solid for any worms to be anywhere near the surface. The lady at the aquarium store I got him from told me that he had never taken pellets so she fed him exclusively on bloodworms, and I have found the same to be true about the pellets, however I also have difficulty getting him to eat bloodworms. He will swim right at the baster I'm using to offer them with, press his nose into them but never bite. He'll do this for some time and then just swim away, despite the fact that I know he's hungry. :c
In addition to this I am going away for 4 days in February. While it would probably be possible for me to arrange for people to come in and feed him, this would involve moving his tank setup, teaching them how to feed him, and asking a lot of neighbours I don't know all that well...
I have seen online that brine shrimp are a good source of live food for axolotls, would it be possible for me to breed some and put a few of them in with him for him to hunt over the time that I'm gone?
Of course I would check in advance that he would take them, but otherwise I'm not sure what else to go with, my old goldfish would have a pellet that slowly broke up for them, but I'm not sure if axolotls can eat anything similar or if mine would even if there was such a thing! :c
Erm, Yeah, thanks in advance for any suggestions that you have, apologies for writing so much!