Tadpoles as food for Axxies

[Last Samurai]

Hi there

Can Axolotls be fed tadpoles?

Thanks

 

[Autistic Catholic]

Axolotls are carnivores and eat any meat. Always vary the diet and make sure live food is properly quarantined and examined for sickness and parasites before adding to the tank.

BTW, they literally eat their own eggs and each other.

 

[Last Samurai]

Axolotls are carnivores and eat any meat. Always vary the diet and make sure live food is properly quarantined and examined for sickness and parasites before adding to the tank.

BTW, they literally eat their own eggs and each other.

Thanks!

 

[wolfen]

Hi there

Can Axolotls be fed tadpoles?

Thanks

have thought about doing so myself as they are a food source in the wild, the only thing that stops me though is the possibility that the hormone that frogs use to metamorphosis from tadpoles to frogs could possibly affect the axolotl.
really would need to find someone who has fed tadpoles to axolotls to find out.

 

[Autistic Catholic]

have thought about doing so myself as they are a food source in the wild, the only thing that stops me though is the possibility that the hormone that frogs use to metamorphosis from tadpoles to frogs could possibly affect the axolotl.
really would need to find someone who has fed tadpoles to axolotls to find out.

Frogs aren't the only type of tadpoles though. There's salamander and newt tadpoles too.

 

[wolfen]

Frogs aren't the only type of tadpoles though. There's salamander and newt tadpoles too.

still the same issues of whether the hormones can affect the axolotl because their thyroid doesn't produce the hormone that causes change.

 

[JM29]

In Europe, well developed toads tadpole are often refused by newts (not palatable because of skin repellent substances).
I've never tested on axolotls.

Another issue : be sure the tadpole are not from a legally protected frog species.

 

[wolfen]

after reading further into using tadpoles as food, I found that the university of California used tadpoles for feeding axolotls in preparation to breading, although there is no mention to how developed the tadpoles were.

 

[Autistic Catholic]

after reading further into using tadpoles as food, I found that the university of California used tadpoles for feeding axolotls in preparation to breading, although there is no mention to how developed the tadpoles were.

What kind of tadpoles?

 

[wolfen]

What kind of tadpoles?

doesn't say it was just part of the commentaries in one of the axolotl newsletters number 13

 

[Bellabelloo]

I have fed tadpoles from.my garden pond to axolotl and other salamanders with no issues. However with hindsight there are risks regarding diseases being passed on. Fortunately my frog population have always appeared healthy.