Now THAT Is Eating Your Foodables Whole!!

[The Banana]

Mum's making chilli & garlic prawn linguini for dinner tonight, so I asked if I could have a prawn for the 'lotls.
Worms are the best stable diet for axies, so I've never fed a prawn to my axies before, but I've heard they love them, and are good treats - so I decided to give it a go.

Tenedor was the lucky axie who got it. :happy:
For some unknown, strange axie reason - she was eating sand at the start. Then *gulp* gone.

Axolotl Eating a Prawn.mp4 - YouTube

Axolotls have tiny teeth, but they use them for gripping their prey, and swallow their foodables whole.
If we were able to eat on the same scale as them - we could swallow a basketball whole (I know we all know this... I just like to say it haha)!!!

As we all know, axolotls can and do eat anything the size of their head smaller, which is why gravel is a no-no.

 

[The Banana]

By the way, Tenedor has only recently had gill fungus.. her gills are slowly growing back nicely.

 

[lea]

tenedor has a very big smile on his face now

 

[emz]

Great vid! It still amazes me what they can swallow! What a smile she has!

 

[The Banana]

Thanks Lea & Emz - She is definitely one happy girl!
It never ceases to amaze me how large of an object they can swallow.

 

[Morrison]

What a cute smileyface! I wish I had a smile like that. (And cute black eyes ... and....gills....and frills....and.... maybe not. I don't think I would like to eat wormish things and limbs)

 

[The Banana]

Naww... I can so imagine an axie version of Morrison..... sort of......


I'm so jealous of axolotl regeneration skills. Wish I could grow back a whole limb - maybe then I could take up full-on machete fighting!

 

[Morrison]

Yep, I agree.
Scientists, hurry up! I want to grow my fingers back when I lose them.