Colettem
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Hi! I have had my blue-gilled lucie for about 3.5 years now. When he was a baby I raised him on bloodworms. I later gave him brine shrimp and he wouldn’t touch the blood worms since. He also will only eat a specific brand of brine shrimp. I know neither of these are a healthy diet for an axolotl, so I tried switching up his food several times. He won’t touch pellets or any kind of sinking food I’ve tried. I finally have been trying to feed him night crawlers. At first I tried to give him a whole one, but he couldn’t get the whole thing in his mouth, so I cut it into fourths and he finally ate a fourth of it. Wouldn’t touch any more. Yesterday I cut up a nightcrawler for him into even smaller pieces (about an inch) and he kept spitting the pieces out and eventually just left them and wouldn’t eat them. I know he’s hungry cause he keeps searching for food and biting at nothing. I got him to eat a cube of brine shrimp this morning, but he is looking a little skinny and I am really worried. I don’t know what else to try and give him.
