You pick a worm, throw it into the aquarium and watch as it disappears in your axolotl’s mouth. The best thing about these worms is that you can buy a lot of them, making it a cost and time-effective way to find your pet. Now obviously, worms are not the only type of meat-based foods that axolotls can eat. They are rich in protein and other essential nutrients that your axolotl can thrive on. It is easy to find worms that can easily fit in their mouth. This is why worms are an ideal source of nutrition for them. You need to make sure it really fits in his mouth. Before feeding your pet, you need to take a look at the size of the food. They have particularly weak teeth, which is why they have to consume their foods as whole. An important thing to consider when feeding them is that their teeth are not really for grinding or biting. What they need is a protein-rich diet because that is what their digestive system is designed for. As it turned out, ever single farm was actually breeding E fetida and/or its very close relative E.When it comes to Axolotls, the main theme of their diet is meat. rubellus isn’t used for composting nearly as much as some think.īack in 1988 scientists conducted a very interesting survey of numerous worm farms in Australia, Europe and the U.S., all of them claiming they were raising L.

While I certainly won’t claim outright that these people are wrong, there is some evidence to indicate that L. In some cases even scientific names won’t help us out however – such as when the wrong one is being used! You can find many people claiming to be using Lumbricus rubellus (also called “Red Worms”) for composting. fetida is such a common species, there is probably a good chance that many bait stores are indeed carrying this worm (which may also be referred to as Tiger Worm, Brandling Worm, or Red Wiggler, among others), but it’s hard to say for sure without seeing the worms for yourself. The advantage of scientific names is that there is only one for each organism, and it’s universally used around the world – with the exception of cases where a former name is still in use after a new name as been declared – as is the case with the European Nightcrawler (Eisenia hortensis – formerly Dendrobaena veneta). I’m sure there are a lot of bait shops that carry ‘Red Worms’, but the question IS, how many of those shops have Eisenia fetida?

That is a good question since it highlights the limitations of relying solely on ‘common names’. “Are red worms from a bait store the same as the red worms that I would order from gardening catalogs? Thanks,” ~ Sandy

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