Food

Complete Axolotl Food Guide – Food Options, How much, When…

How often do you need to feed your adult Axolotl? And how often do you feed newly hatched axolotls? How often you need to feed your axolotl depends on their life stage, young axolotls need to be fed a lot more often than adults. Baby Axolotls need live food about 3 times a day, as…

What Can Axolotls Eat And What Not? – Complete Food List

Anyone who owns an Axolotl has probably wondered what Axolotls are allowed to eat besides pellet food.  Since Axolotls are carnivorous, i.e. purely meat-eating animals, you can feed them earthworms, mosquito larvae, daphnia and of course Axolotl pellets. In the wild, axolotls eat small fish, worms, insect larvae and crustaceans. In the tank, you have…

Raising Earthworms At Home For Axolotls

Among the order of earthworms, the common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) and the European nightcrawler (Dendrobena) are particularly good as axolotl food. The common earthworm is a little smaller than the nightcrawler, but both contain all the important nutrients that axolotls need and are easy to raise yourself at home.  What are earthworms? The Lumbricus and…

Raise Daphnia At Home For Axolotl – Step-By-Step

Daphnia, also known as water fleas, are an ideal food for newly hatched and young Axolotl, as they only eat live food. If you don’t want to buy new daphnia regularly, you can easily raise them at home.  What are water fleas? Daphnia, also called water fleas, are crustaceans that grow from 0,01 to 0,24…

Breeding Brine Shrimp At Home For Axolotl – 3 Steps

Artemia or brine shrimps belong to the crustaceans. The best known species is Artemia salina and they are ideal food for young and newly hatched Axolotl. Artemia can also be bred at home without much effort.  What are Brine Shrimp? Artemia also called brine shrimp are ideal live food for young axolotls and belong to…