Suitable Diet?

[Holly12]

Ok, I know Stelly should be on Earthworms as soon as possible, but until my red wiggler colony breeds, I can't do that.

For now this is his diet:

When I get up, I give him frozen thawed Krill that I rinse the salt out of and chop up. I feed until he swims away.

Then, in his food bowl, I put in 4 or so Salamander/Newt pellets, a few Bug Bite granules (main ingredient is BSFL,) and either a cube of frozen blood worms or a cube of mysis shrimp. (Sometimes I do half and half.) I'm picking up glassworms today to try with him. I let this sit until evening so he can eat during the day, then I siphon out what he doesn't eat before bed.

In the evening I give him 3-4 chopped up BSFL.

Is this diet ok? I want him to be healthy. When he is an adult, can I still give him krill in his food bowl along with his pellets, even with Earthworms as the main food. I don't want him to be deficient in anything. Can I also use up the blood worms, mysis shrimp and glass worms when he's an adult, along with the Earthworms?

 

[tipnatee]

Very slim cut of frozen beef heart would be more similar to earth worm diet. Before I found the pellet that my axie love to eat, and I was having a live worms shortage supplied during the week, I used to feed them thin shredded beef heart that has been soak in water from my tank to get rid of excess blood, light frozen again, then I used the very sharp cheese grater to slice them to worms size . I made bunch of batch the packed them in ice cube tray then refreezed . But now I found my axie favorite pellet which is Nova-lotl from Germany by JBL brand. Which is made just for axolotl . My axie would eat them up very quickly.

 

[auntiejude]

Very slim cut of frozen beef heart would be more similar to earth worm diet. .

NO IT WOULDN'T. Beef heart is NOT suitable for axies.
You really need to get some education you are regularly giving bad advice and talking nonsense. Please stop.

To the OP - worms are the best option for a staple. Pellets will do, you can use bloodworm, glassworm, krill etc as an occasional treat.

 

[tipnatee]

Really? Ok then no beef heart , I was told by my vet that they can be good and many place has recommended them as alternative food choice . If you think my advice is that bad I won't say no more . I have been attack lately I kinda had enough with it too.

 

[Holly12]

NO IT WOULDN'T. Beef heart is NOT suitable for axies.
You really need to get some education you are regularly giving bad advice and talking nonsense. Please stop.

To the OP - worms are the best option for a staple. Pellets will do, you can use bloodworm, glassworm, krill etc as an occasional treat.

I ended up finding night crawlers at a store that aren't too big, so I chop one up and feed, then do the bowl stuff I mentioned and then the evening feed of bsfl. The next day I do krill instead of night crawlers, just to keep things interesting.

Once the red wigglers breed I will use those. Though, they are much thinner and I will have to use more than with the night crawlers. He doesn't like any of the pellets I've tried. I don't want him to get a deficiency.

I've noticed he digests the bsfl guts but poops out the body shell....