Please help with feeding

well mine is just a little slow when i try to drop a pellet in when it goes past its face about 3 secs later its try snatching but it just gets a mouth full of water no pellet lol
 
This is because axies hunt mainly by smell, and not by sight. By the time it smells it and snaps at it, the pellet has already dropped. This is why live foods that move and wiggle catch their attention and are easier to hunt (as they're using sight as well as scent).
 
Ours snap when food falls on their nose, too. I like to let pellets drift down onto their noses so I can watch them do that (it's a guilty pleasure).
 
Using a pair of blunt tweezers works well if they are tame enough.
 
As long as he is eating Carl, you really have few worries.

Although it's fun to feed from fingers, tweezers or chopstix, it can be a bit of a pain if they become too dependant on you. Far better to be able to throw food in and leave them to get on with it.

I would suggest try feeding by hand only now and then. Most of them are so greedy they won't mind and will go for food anyway.

I used to use chopstix to hold mealworm, waxworms and such in front of their noses. They are longer than tweezers and can reach deeper into the tank....no wet sleeve syndrome. But after a while they wanted feeding like this all the time and it took a few days for them to get over it and begin eating normally again.
 
i use really long plastic tweezers about as long as chopsticks i got them in a sea monkey set lol
 
I use long forceps. Although usually I dont need them, they see me coming. lol
 
carl, with your sea monkey set did you get a long sucky thing to? that u squeeze in water then suck up the sea monkeys? suck a slug up with that it works no matter what size it is then with it stickin out a bit wave it in front of their nose then theyl grab it. its so good cos i hate touching slugs and theres millions in my garden so i go out at night n get loads to feed em.
 
I like hand feeding mine... They are able to eat by their selfs if i drop the food in for them but i find that they are more friendly when hand fed, and then i also know that one hasnt eaten the other ones dinner
 
I tried feeder guppies with my 2, just put 5 in the tank, there's only 2 left as they don't seem to have too much of an interest in them, although it's closing on australian summer here, so temperatures are rising. I've added a bottle of frozen water that I'll change every day to try and keep the tank cool, but I actually found one guppy in a mucas coat, like it had been vomited back up! What does this mean? Does it have to do with the sudden high in temperature?
 
Ok your guppy in a mucus coat had been eaten and vomited.
It's quite likely it was to do with rise in temp. The food is sometimes vomited so that it doesn't rot in the stomach.
 
ok cool i've put a frozen bottle in to cool tank down and seems they are a bit more active now also.

I was alarmed though this morning to wake up and see that my younger axie seems to have a little bit of white stuff on its eye, the older axie has no visible problems but the younger just has this like white buildup on its eye, anyone know what this could be?
 
Been feeding mine Koi pellets, given at the shop, now that She (I think) is eating. Mik do you know about the koi pellets are they the right nutrients? also on the prawn thing mine like the odd strip of muscle. gets the same treatment as an earthworm.
 
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